New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-04
NO PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
GOVERNOR WILL USE HIS INFLUENCE TO
HAVE THE BOARD OF HEALTH LIFT
QUARANTINE-WHATD DR.
SHRADY SAYS.

San Francisco, June 5 (SpeciaD.-A conference
held after midnight this morning between
Governor Gage DR.. Shrady of New-York. and
s. NJ Shortridge, counsel for the Chinese Six
Companies. The result was that the Governor
tomorrow will direct the State Board of Health
to make the announcement that all danger of
plague from San Francisco's Chinatown is end
ed, and to all cities to refrain from quar-
antining against San Francisco. He will also
use his influence with the local Board of Health
to have the present quarantine lifted immedi-
ately -.s--s---------
This action is the result of his talk with Dr.
Shrady, in which the New-York doctor candidly
admitted that the present plague precautions
absurd, and that he had personal
knowledge that there had been case of genu-
inc plague in Chinatown He urged Governor
Gage. however, to wait until he had reached
New-York before issuing this order but the
Governor made no promise. The Governor has
been much disturbed over the hardships TO the
Asiatics in Chinatown and the damage done to
this city and the State by the plague reports, and
he proposes to use all his influence TO end what
he considers a senseless scare. If the State Board
of Health refuses to follow his suggestions. he
swears he will remove the contumacious mem
bers within day and appoint more sensible
At the conference DIR. Shrady. piled with
questions by Governor Gage. admitted he could
not say with certainty that there had ever been
a case Of bubonic plague in San Francisco;
that he could not say Of his own knowledge that
there was Z now existing; that the bubonic
plague bacilli inspected by him were furnished
by officials OF the Board of Health, and could
not. therefore. be vouched for by him coming
from the bodies of any persons dying in this
city. In fact so far as he knew. the baciIH
might have been imported from India Japan:
in
Dr. Shrady himself not having been inoculated
or disinfected after having assisted in the au-
topsy on an alleged victim, and. finally, that If
Dr. Shrady himself were in charge of affairs he
would raise the quarantine to-day. and merely
isolate houses where suspicious cases were de-
veloped.
DR.. Shrady was seen at the close of the con-
ference He said:
I see no reason why Chinatown should be
quarantined. 1t is like quarantining ten thou
sand acre field to stop the spread of a little
out the incipient blaze If there is one, the
Board of Health has marked out a great area
and left 1t to be swept over before restricting
the fire. The quarantine should be raised at
should be directed toward isolating houses
wherein supposed plague cases have appeared.
That is the way this matter would have been
handled in New-York Smallpox cases would be
handled in that way and bubonic plague is not
to be feared much by white people small
pox.
DR. Shrady asked the Governor to withhold
action until he arrived in New-York and then
If no further cases were reported to declare the
quarantine off. But IL is not thought the Gov
ernor will delay a single day in issuing his
proclamation.