The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-30


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Tenney, j. A. McCandless, J. G. Roth
well and J. r. Gait, was appointed by
| the Board of Health. The District OF
Kona was divided Into forty districts.
all persons were prohibited from
changing their residence from one OF
4 these districts to another, the commit
tee was empowered to appoint inspect
ors and sub-inspectors for each district,
\ with full powers to enter upon any and
all premises in such district for the
| purpose OF sanitary ins pection of prem
ises and persons.
| Mrs. Boardman and a Hawaiian died
on the 10th, when IL also transpired
that a Chinese woman who had died
the day before was also a plague vic
tim. Wide areas in Chinatown were
| condemned, and the Sanitary Commit
tee began its work, issuing full and
careful instructions to inspectors and
sub-inspectors. Three deaths AMI one
suspicious case was the record for the
| 18th. The presence and the work OF
the inspectors aided considerably to al
lay the excitement. The 18th brought
one death and four suspicious Eases,
the 18th single case, and the goth two
/
The Fire in Chinatown.
The Board OF Health started in to
burn a portion of block fifteen, as they
had been burning portions OF other
blocks for the preceuIng three weeks;
but the wind sent the emDers to the
spires of kaumakapill church and
Chinese joss house near by and present.
w Tho wind fnnk tho fir. anfttalxy ont
Oh the control OF the firemen and sent
1t roaring straight down towards the
waterfront. 1t seemed at one time as IL
the Honolulu Iron Works would have
to go; but at length this building was
saved. The loss of one OF the fire en-
gines hampered the firemen a good
deal; and though they made a splendid
fight,nothing could stop the rush OF the
fiames through the wooden shacks OF
chinatown. Though deploring the suf-
ferings of several thousand Orientals
and natives who were suddenly burnt
out of their homes, people could not but
be glad that this horrible plague spot
was reduced to harmless smouldering
ruins; and while they turned out with
a will to guard the brown men and wo-
men and prevent them from attacking
the guards in overwhelming numbers
they also did everything in their power
to make them comfortable and TO pro-
vide them with food, clothes. and other
necessaries. Nearly forty-five hundred
of these unfortunates were sheltered
and cared for in the spacious grounds OF
kawaiahao church and the building IT.
self. until 1000 of the japanese coulo
be removed to the drill shed and the
Hawaiians could be taken TO other
, premises. In spite of the great excite
ment the Asiatics behaved. in the main,
admirably. taking their misfortunes in
a philosophical spirit: and the manner
in which the people OF the city devoted
themselves to ministering to their nee
essities Saturday and Sunday reflected
the highest credit upon their matter OF
fact altruism.
Business Houses Close Early.
Three deaths and one suspicious case
was the record for the 21st. On this
day the Citizens Sanitary Committee
, passed a resolution requesting the bust
ness houses of Honolulu not TO open
until 10 a. m. and TO close at p. m.
in orderso give the fullest opportunity
for the sanitary inspection. This rule
; was generally complied with.
There were no deaths and no new
cases on the following day. and the
chief news of the day was the opening
of labor bureau for the relief of Orien-
tails forced out of detention camps
This bureau did much good in the sue
ceeding weeks. The I'D OF January
also saw the initiation of the correspon-
dence with President Mckinley about
a court OF claims TO provide for the
payment of property destroyed in the
fires in Chinatown and elsewhere.
One case and one suspect were dis
covered on the 23rd OF January. making
in all forty-one deaths and forty-nine
cases to date. The next day there were
two more deaths and one case. on the
next still another death and on the 26th
a case and a death. All through this
week the work OF providing accommo-
dations and food and other necessaries
for the homeless ones went rapidly on.
and so did discussions as TO the policy
OF the authorities and the losses OF the
fire. There was another plague death
and a suspect on Sunday. the 2Sth, but
none of either on the last three days
of the month. ard January closed with
affairs in a hopeful condition.
A Gloon y Situation.
The gloom and sameness of life in
a quar- antined city were somewhat
lightened by the visit OF Mrs. Loeben-
stein, the agent of the Board of
Health of Hawaii" who bobbed up
serenely with "If not. why not?" for
his motto, and changed II, after receiv-
ing communication from the Board, TO
"veni, vldi, and they fired me-"
Ra.s and the Plague.
On the 1st of February a Chinaman
| from the Pantheon saloon died sudden
| ly, but the cause OF death was not i'm
mediately determined. The next day
Weir Robertson, a white man, was
stricken down, and two bottles OF the
plague serum, received the same day,
were injected into the patients back.
Two cases, two delths, was the story
for the 4th. the plague serum falling in
Robertson's case; and Il was determin-
ed that the Chinaman from the Pam
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