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


A Stricter Quarantine.
4 stricter quarantine than the former
me was established over Chinatown on
the night of December 27-2S, and large
numbers of house servants were caught
by its sudden application. The battle
was on once more in earnest, and the
discussions of all sorts of measures for
keeping the city clean and the drinking
water pure were resumed. The connec-
ion between the Bishop Estate. the
filth of Chinatown, and plague deaths
:ame 10 light, and many horrible illus
tratiOns of this are scattered all
through the succeeding weeks. Two
more deaths and a suspicious case were
announced the morning of the twenty
linth. There were no new cases that
lay, but the investigating commission
'endered a startling and horrifying re
DoTt which made the worst reading the
plague had yet produced. The lax and
nenectual character OF the quarantine
1ecame a SUBJECT of general comment.
The whole thing was a farce. and ev.
3rybody knew it, The household ser
wants were fumigated. provided with
fresh clothes. and passed out of quar-
milne.
Three more deaths on the last day o.
December decided the Board of Health
TO take vigorous action and the first
official fire of the crisis took place that
afternoon fefore large crowd The
adoption of this policy received the
hearty commentator of all right
linking people. Everybody was glad
20 see that fire and to realize that it
meant that the Board was on the road
"a - Aaff
ures and of the idea that the plague
IS small matter which would soon
be over. The Board also inaugurated
IN this day the policy of removing II
quarantine quarters persons who had
been exposed to infection.
Death on New Years Day.
Inc first day Of the new year was
marked by another death, and another
extensive shack on MIunLkea and Pau
AM streets was burned. Inls day the
policy was definitely inaugurated of re-
moving all the inhabitants OF CHINA
eown as rapidly as practicable. and tax
ing all steps to stamp out the plague.
including the destruction of buildings
ana other property. The site for the
camp at Kalihi was chosen
me next DAY, and big block in China
Town condemned. There were two sus
poets on the second, a death on the
IhiId, and four more deaths on the
lourtn, making nineteen in all to date.
Meanwhile more buildings were con-
demned and burned, and work on the
new quarantine camp was rushed aionl
as fast as possible.
One suspect was the record for jan
uary .. The Council OF state appru-
prlated $4,000 for the erection of a gar
bage crematory and S25O,OOO for the
suppression of the plague. Minister
cooper resigned his position as pres
dent of the Board of Health, and DIR.
Z. Il. Wood was elected in his pIaca.
Iwo days before this the whole judicial
district of Honolulu had been placed
IN strict quarantine, and all persons
were forbidden to leave the city. and all ,
persons outside it were forbidden to
harbor any who should escape and sue
ceed in passing the guards at the Pail. |
Moanalua and elsewhere. With the ac-
ceptance of the presidency of the Board
by DR.. Wood, who could give his whole |
time to it, the official part of the COM
munity settled down in dead earnest to |
light the plague.
Battle on in Earnest.
The disposition to ignore or
Delittle the seriousness of the
was put aside, and at
ne meeting Of the physicians on the
night of the sixth the whole situation
was thrashed over in a manner which
showed that there was to be no more
official laXity for some Tune II was
AZ this meeting that DR.. Taylor stated
mat Honolulu was face to face with bu-
)onic plague. before which II stood alb
iolutely powerless. that it was only at
ne beginning Of an epidemic, and that
-hlnatoWn was a menace 20 the health .
lI the community as long as IL stood.
! he papers OF Monday morning. jan
nary 8. also contained accounts Of two
suspicious cases, one Of these being a
Japanese from near Kukui lane. and OF