Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-02
HEALTH BOARD MEETING

At the regular meeting of the Board
of Health yesterday afternoon there
were present the following: President
Lowrey, +. NJ. Hatch and DR.. Emerson.
Minutes of the previous meeting read
and approved.
A representative of the Hawaiian
Carriage Manufacturing Co. presented
a petition which was read by President
Wood. The company asks to be allow
ed to put up a carriage repository on
Queen street, opposite the Judiciary
building and very near the place where
Osmer, the German, died, supposedly
of plague.
The representative of the company
stated that a refusal to grant permits
sion to put up the building would Sc
riously handicap the company and, af-
ter member or two had remarked on
the matter, he stated that the Germans
was not a certain case Of plague. The
Board did not feel like answering Just
then and took the matter under ad-
visement.
President Wood brought up the mat
ter of Yong Look, the Waikiki suspect
from All Sans fruit store. A full and
most satisfactory report from the in
spector, L. s. Boyd, was read by DR..
Wood In this was contained sub
stantially the same story as appeared
in the Bulletin yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Boyd was called in the morning by
All Choy, the keeper Of the store. Upon
reaching the place he ordered the store
locked up and then stood guard until
someone else arrived, when he went
away to telephone to the Board of
Health Office.
DR.. Wood stated that he had seen
the Chinaman at the pest house. Ne
was unconscious, had high fever and
a dry tongue. There was swelling
in the right femoral region but this
had not developed into well defined
bubo. There was also swelling in
the left femoral region.
The children Of the sick Chinaman
stated that they went into the Kalihi
detention camp at the time of the big
fire of January 20 and that they re-
manned there until Friday afternoon OF
last week. Previous to going to Ka-
lihi, they had lived on Pauahi street.
Asked as to the length of time the
family had been in quarantine at Ka-
lihi one OF the girls, who speaks Eng
fish well, stated that the quarantine
began after they had been given their
hot water baths. At that time, their
old clothes were taken away from them
and they were given new ones. Their
old clothes were returned after they
had undergone thorough fumigation.
Absolutely nothing old but their
clothes was brought from the camp
with Yong Look and his family. They
had few cooking utensils but these
had all been given them at the camp.
President Wood said he was at a
loss to know just how the man became
infected. II was'impossible to say how
the man had become infected. The
usual period Of incubation is from two
to four days. The man had been away
| from camp for five days and 20 could
have taken the infection outside.
The house in which the Chinaman
was taken sex at Waikiki is isolated
and is very clean place. Only fruit
and canned goods had been sold there.
1t would be hard to trace any infec-
ton in the store. The only place stop
ped at on the way from the camp to
Waikiki was at the store on the cor
ner of the road leading to the camp
and King street. Soda and cakes were
bought there.
| Just here President Wood referred Il
! the case Of Kee Mung and stated tina,
the house in Kalihi in which he is sup,
posed to have stayed for some days
Kee Mung's son had been found there
and corraled with other Cinnamon.
The assistant fish inspector at tn,
market had furnished the Citizens
Sanitary Committee with valuabl,
information regarding the whereabout,
OF Kee Mung before being taken sick
He knows all the Cinnamon associate,
with the victim in the fish business ant
the rooms in which each one lived
On motion of Mr.. Hatch the buildin,
In which Kee Mung died and the two
story building next it, were ordere,
destroyed by fire.
The application of T. Ota, n gradual
from one of the medical colleges Il
Japan. for a license to practice medi
cine, was referred to the Minister O
the Interior with a favorable recon
mendation.