The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-12

more suspicious case on mana now.
Resolved that the S. s. Lehua be
dispatched to Honolulu with request
to the Board of Health there that one
or more physicians who are conversant
with bubonic plague and properly
equipped to determine the nature of the
case be dispatched Immediately for
Kahului.
d. c. LINDSAY,
Secretary.
Tracing the Infection.
1t is stated that the Introduction of
plague into Kahului was believed to
be through the medium of Oriental
freight which was shipped there from
Honolulu nearly two months ago and
left unopened until just before the
Chinese New Year, the goods being
mostly for the celebration of that fes-
tival. 1t is said the Claudine carried
this freight
| Following out this theory, it is be-
| lieyed that the sudden deaths of the
three sailors of the Claudine, two of
them on the boat and one in this city,
We're due, in all probability, to plague.
The third Ciaudine sailor was brought
b.
examination held. The man had suf-
fered from slight fever the day be-
fore his death and had gone into one
of the valleys to obtain eucalyptus
leaves for use as medicine. During
1.-THE night he was attacked by a fearful
headache and arose at o'clock in the
morning; at z o'clock he again took to
his bed, the headache still raging, ac-
companied by fever, and shortly after
expired. The postmortem developed
only one feature which might have
caused his death; two small globular
Jumps were found in the brain. Suspt-
cion was afterward directed to the sud
denness of all three deaths, which
were, at the time, popularity attributed
[ to kahunaism.
t President Wood is expected back
q from Kahului today and will probably
be able to throw light on the matter.
l George Horns Statement.
; An Advertiser reporter waited upoI
6 Mr.. George Hons yesterday morning
n and learned the following regardint
e the situation and sickness on the Isl
: and of Maui:
a During this month" said Mr.. Hons
|. .there have been four sudden death
| amongst the Asiatics in Kahului bu
r until the day on which l left, no on
S considered them in the light of plagu
h victims. OF course close examination
It of all four were made by the physician
: but not the slightest symptom of tn
/, pestilence was observed on any on
Il of them and DR.. Armitage considere
their death was due to pernic1ou
form of malaria.
ION Friday, however, a Chinaman de
10 veloped suspicious symptoms, in tn
= form of two swellings in the armpit.
in addition to the manifestations OF
served in the previous patients; an
lie shortly afterwards two more case
n were reported.
q In view of the fact that none of tn
three physicians on Maui, Drs. Arm
tage, Weddick and McConkey, hav
Il, had practical experience with bubon1
1t plague, meeting of citizens was cal
10 ed for the purpose of discussing tn
- situation. 1t was decided to dispatc
u a representative of the people withoJ
10 delay to Honolulu, who after laying b'
s fore the Board of Health all facts
es regard to the matter, and also one {
is the swollen glands removed from th
re urge upon them the advisability of ;
Ill once dispatching a physician, who's
rs experience in the Honolulu troUbl
e would place him in a position to diat
II, nose the disease to satisfy the Kahul'
D. people. The Lehua was thereupo
III chartered for the trip to Honolulu an
III was chosen as the delegate TO II
J. Board of Health
O. The people of Maui are not at a
excited over the affair, but in view
n the experience in Honolulu, they a
ny naturally anxious to learn if their su
al piciOns are well grounded Whatev,
ne the disease may be, the people have
II we'll in hand, as they immediate
n quarantined the district in which Il
ne trouble has appeared and a body
rt between fifty and sixty men ha'
drawn Gordon round it.
The trouble is confined TO a re
of Chinese shacks in Chinatown. X