The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-07
THE PLAGUE CASES IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
Sound Port and Federal Authorities
Threaten the California City-Medical
Journals Unfavorable Comment.

The Doric brought news that the qua
rantine officers at San Francisco have
suddenly become unusually obliging,
and passed their vessel in much quicker
time than has been the rule. The same
steamer brought news which indicates
that San Francisco has reason to be-
come very considerate of other places,
for she may soon have to give in to the
evidence that she has bubonic plague
and bear the resulting quarantine
against herself.
Medical journals and other papers
throughout the country are discussing
the plague in the Golden Gate city and
comment upon the action taken is not
at all complimentary to San Francisco
The New York Medical News says
that PLAGUE has been prevalent in San
Francisco for 8 or 8 months, and that
its persistence calls for more active
measures on the part of the health au-
thorties If the matter had been taken
in hand as it was in Glasgow, this pa
per says, the present uncomfortable
situation would not have developed. AS
it is the prospect of an extensive out
break should make the city and state
authorities more active in sanitary
measures.
Ports on the Sound are considering a
quarantine against San Francisco,
which is said to have plague not only
in Chinatown but in the business part
of the town as well, as is shown by the
following dispatch to the Seattle POST
Intelligencer:
PORT TOWNSEND, Nov. 22.-Ac-
cording to private information received
here today from Washington and which
is said to have come from source that
can be considered as official, bubonic
plague exists in San Francisco, not
alone in the Chinese quarter, but in the
business portion of that city.
"The report from Washington states
San Francisco but that the disease is
not confined to any particular district.
There has been for some time a
general impression that bubonic plague
has been in existence at San Francisco
since quarantine was declared off, some
months ago, and that the city is an
infected port and, If reports from
Washington received here yesterday are
correct, it is probable that another
quarantine will be established against
the bay city"
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. "a
There is every reason to believe that
the Marine Hospital Service of San
Francisco is planning to place a quar-
antine, and unless the merchants of the
city take action a Federal line may be
drawn about the port in a few days
This cannot be definitely stated, as
every effort to find out what the service
is up to has so far failed, and there is
no official in the Surgeons s-GeneraPs S
office who will give the slightest inti-
nation regarding the secret session of
Secretary of the Treasury Spaulding
and Surgeon General Wyman. All that
is known is that the conference held to-
day was regarding alleged plague in
San Francisco. They even both deny
that there was a conference but it is
too well known that such a special
meeting was arranged for the truth to
be long suppressed.
The recent Injurious reports of the
Marine Hospital Service have awaken
ed the officials, and if San Francisco re-
mains passive much longer concerning
the work of Kinyoun and his assistants
the city may have csr Sc to regret It's
Indifference.