The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-27
SATURDAYS BOARD MELTING
DR.. Emerson Asks Immediate De.
struction of Hotel Stables.

The Board of Health met at 2 o'clocl
Saturday afternoon in the judiciary
building. President Wood, Drs. Day
and Emerson and Messrs. Hatch, Low.
rey, and Smith were present Mr.. l.. A
Thurston, president of the Citizens
| Sanitary Committee was also at the
meeting as were Fire Commissioned
Brown, Detective David Kaapa and
others.
President Wood opened business by
going directly into the case of All Sing
Chinaman, aged IS, who was taken To
| the Chinese hospital in Palama at an
early hour Saturday morning, where
he was seen a short time later by DR..
Jobe and where DIR. Wood also went to
see him. All Sing was found in dying
condition, with an exceedingly high
fever and suspicious Jumps in the neck.
| The symptoms showed the decided
pneumonia form of plague, as nearly as
outward signs could indicate.
All Sing died about IL o'clock Satur-
day morning and was removed to the
morgue shortly after noon, where Drs.
| Hoffman, and Wood, after having their
| lunch proceeded to the examination
of the body. The result of the autopsy
was not reported until after the Board
of Health meeting, although DR.. Wood,
| in telling the members the facts of the
case In his possession, said that In his
opinion there was very little doubt but
| the man had died OF the pneumonia
| form of plague.
| Dr. Wood went on to state that Ah
| Sing had resided in an apana in Pa
lama inspected by N. Fernandez. When
his name had first been entered on the
inspection roll he stated that he work.
ed at the Club stables. All Sing made
the statement before he was removed
to the hospital that he had been sick
sixteen days. DR.. Wood said that this
was an impossibility, as the man was
suffering from an acute disease, when
he was removed, and could not have
suffered that long.
DR.. Wood also stated at the Saturday
meeting that Chinaman at the Ka-
| lihi detention camp, who had tenn
perature of 104 shortly after he was
taken sick, showed very suspicious
| symptoms.
In speaking of the All Sing case, DR..
| Wood said: "The postmortem appear
| ances were almost certainly those of
the pneumonia form of plague. The
| sub-maxillary glands on the right side
and the Emphatic glands were both
| suspicious looking. / think that the
| infection in this case came through the
mouth. The symptoms generally were
the kind we expect to find in cases
where Infection Is taken through the
mouth. 1t might also have been that
infection was taken through the lungs
by inhalation. The case was very
similar to that of All Hung, the man
who had worked at the Hotel stables
The same glandular swellings were evil
dent in the neck in both cases. Dr.
Hoffman, is examining slides now: he
may have to make cultures before he
can say definitely whether Ah Sing
died of the plague.
I'm regard to the All Hung case
have done everything In my power to
trace his movements and whereabouts
before he died, through the Citizens
Sanitary Committee and the Police de-
partment. / have received little adj
ditional information through Dr. Hoff-.
mann, who took Ah Hung to the pest
honse in his buggy Monday morning
DR.. Hoffmann's information may be the
cause of some light being thrown on
the subject. DIR. Hoffman, said that he
had learned that All Hung had lived
in the same place with another man.
engaged in the same work as All Hung
did in the Hotel stables. The Marshal
was asked to try and trace the man who
had been with All Hung"