The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-03

present at the re-reading of the records
The idea was Immediately acted upon
and il was decided that the members
of the Board assemble in special meet
ing this evening for the purpose above
indicated.
The Last Plague Case.
Dr. Wood: Il suppose there is no
need of my reporting 10 you that there
mas been another case of the plague
since our last meeting?"
Mr.. Cooper: Il should like TO hear
the Presidents opinion as to- the prob
able source of infection"
Dr. Wood: 1T is hard to say where
Catharine Sullivan took the infection;
il is possible that il was brought to the
mouse on Liliha street, where she lived,
by her stepfather, who had been guard
ing the block makai of the judiciary
building, and which was quarantined
by the Board for some time on account
OF several cases of plague having oc-
CURED in that neighborhood. The house
on Liliha street is in a thoroughly san
itaTy condition, is raised off the
ground. and is in a clean locality. The
girl had been nowhere where there
was any likelihood of her taking the
disease, and the only reasonable expla-
nation that | can see is that Il. +.
Hope carried home the infection in
his clothes or on his shoes. Hope. who
was guarding Russian Franks prem
ises up to March %. went around
through the quarantined block during
the night time looking after the
guards. IL is just possible that in this
way he may have taken the infection
nome, though it is impossible TO say
certainly. When called around at the
house myself, while investigating the
case, | saw little girl running around
barefoot; if infected soil had been
tracked into the house this would have
been most easy way for infection TO
be taken.
Il asked Hope If he had taken any
precautions while he was on guard in
the quarantined block on Queen street.
asked him il he had changed his shoes
or washed them before entering his
home. He told me that he had not
done so; that he had not considered IL
at all necessary. This was, TO say the
least, rather thoughtless OF him. /.
after having visited infected premises
or Inspected places, always leave my
shoes in the barn.
This last case OF plague seems to
have been one of infection through the
mouth or rather through the lungs
there We're no buboes. DIR. Camp had
been attending the case for several
days, and thought IL was simply a case
of typhoid fever, and was about to ar
range for the moving of his patient 10
the Queens Hospital, when suspicious
symptoms suddenly developed. The case
was one of the pneumonia form OF the
plague"
Lowrey: Was there anything 70
show that infection might have been
taken through the hands2"
DR.. Wood: "Dr. Hoffman,. who
made the pOst-mOrtem examination
found indications Of infection through
the mouth or lungs"
LOwrey: Il heard it reported that
the girl. Catherine Sullivan. had had
| a cut on her hand and had been scrub
| bling the floor at her home"
DR.. Wood Il think 1t most likely
/ that infection was taken by inhala-
| ton. ! would like the Board to visit
| the premises after the meeting and de-
/ eide what We are to do with them
/ Hope, the girls step-father, has not
/ been sent to quarantine on account OF
/ his having previously taken the proph-
/ ylactic; the rest of the inhabitants o
| the house on Liliha street where the
victim lived, have been removed &c
/ the battery camp.
Kalihi Camp to Close.
Speaking of the prophylactic, have
asked DR.. Howard to get all the people
possible to take the serum before leav-
| ing quarantine. | moved the persons
/ from the Liliha street home TO the bat
| terry camp for the reason that it is real:
| ly unnecessary to keep the Kalihi de-
| tentiOn camp open any longer. The
battery camp can be run at a much
smaller expense and answers the pur-
pose just as well at this stage of the
epidemic. We are cutting expenses as
much as possible all along the line anC
| Mr.. McVeigh will discontinue the IA
lihi camp as soon as it is empty.
There are lot of destitute person!
there, many in the hospital and the re
covered plague patients are also at Ka
lihi There are many incurables in thu
hospital; now the Board of Health can
maintain a hospital for incurables a
Kalihi and the incurables will prove
the most difficult question TO handle IL
the disseminating of the camp.
THE people in quarantine at Kalih
have been notified to find other quarter
after their time is up. With one case ;
week, the daily running expenses TO
the suppression of the plague are yer!
large and we have got TO cut in ever.
way possible. | have discontinued tn
disinfecting corps and will also d'
without the men now employed in re
moving the debris from the burnt dis
tricts."
The petition from the inmates Of tn
drill shed camp concerning their home
less condition, published in yesterday
Advertiser, was then read to the Boar
by President Wood. after which 1t wa
decided that the petition be referred t
the Executive Council.
The Executive Officer.
, DR.. Wood: CDR. Garvin has bee