The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-01-19

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case .s reported CHS morning was &C.
rusomni 10 taf proximity ol A8aIca.
Merchandise from condemned build
Ing. has spread tha germs. Wherever
we 1nl iu instance oi plague the Uhlu-
ccs are that a knowledge OF Jos history
would lead the investigator straight
TO the fostering mI.rpJs-p.. OF the
Oriental quarter
10 Is four weeks now since the Al
verjser Grst appealed for the desrue-
lion OF this p.ague-spJl and much has
been done TO realize that end. But no.
enough. Time has been lost, the prop
or usa Of which might. by this dlte,
have cut down the plague morta 10y to
merely nominal hgure. For bear in
mind that the bac... of the Black
Death are breeding and multiplying all
the while and going out on their in
sidious frrands OF going
out on the shoes anu clothing, perhaps.
of guards and inspectors and of occa-
sional Chinese; going out in the sys-
tens of rats which, when afflicted by
this malady, always court the society
OF human beings; going out, maybe on
the sweep Of the dust wind. Every
cesspool in the scores that now remain
must be producing its fresh colonies of
bacteria; every nolsome wall and floor
and covert must be nourlshing and de-
valoping them. If the place of infec-
tion-the cradle and arsenal of the
pIague-is permitted to stand for an
other ten days we scarceIy doubt that
the pest mortality in Honolulu will
reach ten per diem and perhaps more.
Localities not people are infected,
says the President of the Board of
Health. The Chinese and Japanese,
removed to detention camps, washed
and fumigated, are in good physical
condition. But the locality bounded by
Nnuanu, Queen, River and Kukui
Streets comprising twenty blocks and
pha.l-bocks, is to-day an active manu-
factory of the bubonic scourge. We
shall have millions of deadly germs
there If the place, from end to end, is
not purified by fire and that without
delay. 1t Is not enough to say that the
job will be done soon" when each
days waiting adds UNNECESSARILY tol
,4e numbers OF the bacilli and TO the
gravity of public peril. The plague
should be met Like an advancing enemy
in line of battle, with prompt attack.
There should De a daily fire until Chi
natown, brick buildings and all, is re-
duced TO ashes and dead bacilli.
Then it will be possible to prevent
the concealment of sickness; practical
BILE to find every cesspool and saturate
1t with acids preparatory to cleaning
1t out with odorless eXcavators and
filling it with clean black sand and
lime. Then the whole putrid area may
be disnfected and thereafter plowed
up TO be blistered on its under crust
with streams of burning coal Oil. The
day that Is achieved will, we believe
and predict, be one of de4gerance from
the pestilence which at MONDAY and at
m .4night is waited on the very winds
from Chinatown into the households
of the people.
What is more this sweeping destruc-
ton will made room for a new and
sanitary Chinatown, separated from
the white mans business quarter by a
wide park and containing every ny
gienic feature that modern science can
devise. Such an Oriental district would
be worth a million dollars to Honolulu
If for nothing more than the guarantee
1t would give OF inhosptality to future
maladies that may enter at this port.
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