The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-19
CONTINUE POST OFFICES PLAGUE BMAKS0UTAGAIN
TWO UGLY CASES DEVELOPED
TODAY.
Both Dead-One is Certainly Plague
and the Other is Probably the same.
Native Woman and Chinaman.

Plague deaths, L. plague cases, l;
suspect cases, 1.
Plague has reappeared. There was
this morning one death from the disease
and another is very suspicious. The lat
ter was adjudged plague at 6 o'clock
but the facts will not be known until
later developments.
The certain plague victim is Mary
Kaahui, Hawaiian Chinese, aged "a, liV-
ing in a house back of the naval reser-
walton near the foot of the proposed ex-
tension of Militant street. She died at
this morning. An autopsy was held
by DIR. Hoffman and verdict of plague
given.
The woman had been i'll several days.
! DR.. Wayson was called in aud saw her
at O'clock yesterday afternoon. About
o'clock this morning James Hewsou,
hackdriVer, called at the Board Of
| Health office and asked that q doctor
be sent at once. DIR. Peterson responded
and found the case suspicious. Four
hours later the woman died.
| DR.. Wayson called at the house this
morning and found the woman dead.
| lie returned a written statement to the
Board of Health concerning the case,
stating that he considered typhoid fever
to have been the trouble but that the
illness was not sufficient to cause death
and if Dr. Peterson did not agree with
him he would insist upon an autopsy.
Early in the morning the house and
its occupants were quarantined. AT
the meeting of the Board of Health this
afternoon the premises will be con-
demned and will be burned.
A SUSPECT CASE.
Very early this morning w. L. Hop
per reported a suspect case in house
back of the Chinese store on King street
near the Waikiki turn, makai side. DT.
Peterson reached the place shortly af
ter 6. The patient was a ChinamaT
named All Chong, aged "a. He was
very i'll of pneumonia and had very
suspicious symptoms besides. AS soOI
as possible he was removed to the pes
hospital where DR.. Wood examined him
II was then agreed that he was at tht
point of death.
The man died at noon. In his las
moments there was every indication o
plague death save for the swellings
The symptoms took the pneumonia
form. DR.. Hoffman took lunch will
DR.. Herbert and this afternoon is en-
gagged upon the post mortem. Will
there is a strong suspicion that the cas-
is one of plague it will not be positivel
known until this autopsy is complete
and a report thereon made.
The woman mentioned above lived a
: rather unsatisfactory life, from al
: accounts. With her in the house wa
: Becky Bishop, who recovered from a.
attack of cholera in 1895. James Hewso
John CRUDE and few others are ais
in quarantine from the same premises
The Chinaman lived in a house ad
joining an addition to the store men
toned above, which was ostensibl
used for the Chinese school but whic
q really was an opium and gamblin
1 joint. AS many as thirty and fifty Chi
nese have been found in there at
Z time by the inspector in the past wee
9 all engaged in chance games.
1t is not certain when this Chinama
first contracted the disease. Yesterda
morning when Mr.. Gilbert the inspeC
tor (who, by the way, talks Chinese
called for All ChOng he was told ths
he had gone to church. The same hal
pened in the afternoon and this morr
ing the man was said to be out. M
Gilbert says he went through the hous
on each occasion but saw nothing su'
picious.
}. Sources of infection in these case
are worrying the Board of Health bi
1t is almost certain that the one of IL
- Chinese came from infected goods /
the Chinese store near the WAIKIKI
turn. There is a strong probabilit
that the other also came from Chine:
merchandise, though there is nothin
yet to show it. A part of the block
which the woman lived was suspecte
. some time ago and burned.