The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-17
No PLAGUE
ON HAWAII
Mrs. Serrao's Case Very
Suspicious.
KAHULUI OUT OF DANGER
lroquois Returns--U. S. Authorities
Investigate Shipping Matters.
Or. Grace Arrives.

The United States tug Troquois ar
rived in the harbor at 1915 last night
from Hilo, Kahului and Lahaina, bear
ing Consul General Haywood. Presi-f
dent Wood of the Board of Health. DR..
Carmichael, and DR.. Grace, agent Of
the Board of Health at Hilo. The tug
was under the personal command Of
Lieutenant Commander Pond, and an
chored at her berth, forward OF Sum
ner Island.
At IL o'clock the party came ashore.
and President Wood at once stated.
! "The case of Mrs. Serrao was very
suspicious. In fact, believe Ii was q
case OF plague. have no positive
proof that it was plague, but 1t Ger
/ tainly looks that way.
There has not been another slspi-
cious case in Hi,o since the death Of
Mrs. Serrao, nothing whatever occur
ring while | was there Members Of
her family who lived in the same
house, and were even quarans ined
there, were not taken Sick; all are per-
fectly well.
How do | account for the infections
Well. from my investigation, / think
1t must have come from the sewer The
store-front is directly on a level with
Waianuenue street, while the rear 0E
the store extends over the mouth OF
the sewer. which is somewhat lower
than the street. Back of this store is
where the storekeeper kept his horse
and harness, and Mrs. Serrao went
barefooted out in this place; IL there
fr,ea - -
Is where she got it. Her husband de-
nies very strongly that she ever went
barefoot, but from my own investiga-
tions l am very sure that she did.
Evidently there was no infection In
the house they lived in, for none OF
the people became I'll there before or
after she died. The house, together
with the store and contents, were Or
dered burned before left, and pre-
sumo the order has been carried out
: by this time. did not consider that
the other members had been In quar-
, antine, although the Hilo agents of
, the Board had kept the people In the
! residence. have had them all put
J under special quarantine for fifteen
: days.
mo, there was no demonstration ON
our arrival; we landed without word
: being said. Mr.. Lyman, ono of the
Health Committee, was on the wharf
to meet US, and asked US IL we did not
expect some pyrotechnics. The people
were in full sympathy with US. DR..
:, Grace comes to Honolulu in order To
I gain more definite knowledge of plague
and its treatment"
Kahului and Kihei.
8 President Wood stated that on ths
2 down trip Jack" Atkinson had been
: left in charge Of the quarantine camp
, of 200 people at KahnIui. No new
: cases have broken out there. and II
Z looks as IL the progress of the diseas,
: had been arrested just In time. Botl
n DR.. Garvin and Mr.. Atkinson viii re
: main there until the quarantine perios
Is over.
Consul General Haywood and Or
- Carmichael made thorough inyesti
6 gation of the methods by which sugal
8 could be handled both at Kahului aD<
& Kihei. At the latter place they weT'
8 told that the railroad could be con
6 nected with the Kihei wharf In thre
& days, IL Ii was found necessary to ex
9 tend 1t to that point
9 The IroQuoiE left Honolulu at 10 .
8 m. Tuesday night, arriving at kahu's
g at daybreak, where the party spen
g most of the day. Leaving Kahulu
g Wednesday night the tug arrived 1
s Hiio at a. m. Thursday morning. an
g all were ashore by 9 O'Clock. Yest&
& day the tug stopped at Kahului, Kihs
8 and Lahaina, leaving the latter plae
= shortly after noon. A telephone me.
s sage from the latter port to Kahul,
8 showed that no further suspicion
g cases were recorded up to that TIM