The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-20

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The plague is still here. Notwith-
standing the fact that twelve days had
passed without sign of the disease,
three eases were discovered early yes
terday morning, and the period of
quarantine must now begin over again.
Although the cases were at first re-
ported only as suspicious, it quickly
developed that they were too certainly
plague. All three patients are dead,
and the record for Monday reads:
Three cases; three deaths.
The first victim of the plaques reap
lpearance was Mary Kaaihue, an Ha-
waiian-Chinese woman, aged "a, liv-
ing in a house back of the naval reser-
walton near the proposed extension of
HalekauwiIa street She died at 5
O'clock yesterday morning. An autop-
sy was held by DR.. Hoffman, and the
case pronounced one of plague.
The victim had been sick for several
days. DR.. Wayson was called in and
saw her at 5 o'clock on Sunday after
DuL saw MULLINS ou0PANAOuo OK
that time. About l o'clock yesterday
morning a hack-driver, James Hewson
called at the Office of the Board OF
Health and requested that doctor be
sent at once. DR.. Peterson responded
and found the case suspicious. The
woman was dead only four hours aft
erwards.
When DR.. Wayson called at the
tyaufordaxy 10 fnuuA fhe
woman dead, and he returned writ
ten statement to the Board of Health
Immediately, concerning the case, stat
ing. in his opinion, that typhoid fever
had been the trouble, but that that wa
in itself not sufficient to cause death
and II DR.. Peterson did not agree will
) him he would insist upon an autopsy
> Early in the day the house was quar-
antined and its occupants sent to tn,
battery camp. A disinfecting gam
was busy burning bedding and fumi
I eating the premises-wasted work il
: one sense, for the house and all it
contents will be given to the flames to
day. The occupants in the surround
ing houses will be removed to tn
battery camp, so their clothing and De
longings can be properly fumigateC
and they will have disinfecting bath
/, The second case was reported a
suspicious early yesterday morning b
: w. l.. Hopper. This was in nous
' back of the Chinese store, on Kin
n street, near the Waikiki turn, mako
side. DIR. Peterson arrived not Ion
after o'clock and found ChinamaI
: All Chong, aged "a, very sick wit
II pneumonia. There were suspicion
a symptoms besides, and as soon as po.
sible the patient was moved to tn
pest hospital, where DR.. Wood ex4.n
l, med him. At this time. the man wa
= very near death, and died at noon. Ju:
q before he died the patient showed a
:, the indications of plague, with the e.
ception of the swellings. The SYM
toms took the pneumonia form.
n After lunch DR.. Hoffman,, accom-
panied by DR.. Grace of Hilo, held
postmortem examination and reporte
it undoubtedly a case of plague. Slide
were prepared from the fluids OF Il
groin, the arm pits and from the nee
DIR. Grace, who has not had any plagl
experience, was thus enabled
see the bacilli and become acquaintt
with the symptoms and circumstanc
of the disease.
The third case was that of q Chin
- man, All Hung, who was removed
the pest hospital yesterday mornil
= as a suspect; he died late in the afte
> noon. DR.. Hoffman, held an autop
and declared plague to be the cause
death The publication of the fac
concerning the finding of this last ca
IN would interfere with the work Of L
Board OF Health: consequently tn
II are for the present withheld.
DR.. Woods Opinion.
Speaking of the situation yesterd
morning, DR.. Wood said: THE ca
Of the Hawaiian Chinese girl, ne
7 he coal-shods, is nothing more tn
l what might have bee nexpected. 1t
one Of those sporadic cases that a
liable to crop up at any time" tt
m was before the two Chinese cases h
IN been declared plague.
The Hawaiian-Chinese woman led
rather unsatisfactory life, according
\. those who are acquainted with he
% Becky Bishop, a woman who recover
from an attack of cholera in 1895, "
a. living In the house with her. Jan
Hewson, John CRUDE and several OF
ers are now in quarantine, havi
been taken from the same or ado