Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-10

1 Honolulu for two years or more, ana
! had not left the city within that una
| and the place where she resided Is one
| Of the cleanest In the city.
| 1T Is difficult 20 trace the source OF
| the Infection, and the general opinion
| is that IL is a recrudescence, and not a
I fresh Importation The residence or
| the woman at the Parke place and the
quarters occupied byher al the japanese
| hospital have been thoroughly dlsln-
| fected, and the body has been crema I
| ed at the quarantine station. IL ~
unfortunate that the source OF the IN
| lection cannot be traced, but In TINS
| case, as in others, il Is mysterious
slides prepared from the cultures show
| he same bacillus that we found In the
cases last year
A report made by william p. Smyth,
United States consul at HUI England
May 3, 1901, Declares
"Pneumonic plague Is the most infec-
tious form. the sputum being laden with
plague bacilli. lt Is the most difficult
to diagnose clinicaly, owing to the abb
sence Of buboes the lung symptoms
leading the medical attendant TO regard
the case Is one of ordinary pneumonia.
Pain tenderness and enlargement OF
the lymphatic glands in the inguinal
femoral, axillary aud cerYical regions,
which are the most prominent signs OF
bubonlc plague, which constitutes 70 per
cent Of the persons attacked, are alb
sent"
The report made by Consul Smyth is
OF general interest for 1t tells OF an
outbreak OF plague on the steamship
Cardiff while the vessel was lying at
one OF the Hull docks, England. It
appears that the vessel loaded with
cotton seed, left Alexaidrla on Deem
Der %. 1900. touched at Aglers on De-
cember %, whence she sailed direct for
England The steamship had clean
bills Of health from both ports The
captain reported the death OF one Of
the crew two days before his yes
sci arrived at Hull The body was
Inferred In one OF the Hull cemeteries.
Shortly after two Of the crew were re-
ported as IN and DR.. Mason, the port
medical officer, promptly made an eX-
animation. At first he believed the
men were suffering from influenza.
They died inside of four days. Post
moretm and meteorological eXamina-
lions were made and the evidence was
clear that the men had died from
plague.
The Friary was promptly taken TO a
moving station. twelve miles from the
city. for dlslnfection, and several mem
bers Of the crew were removed to a
hospital and Isolated. There were In
all eight deaths from the plague In the
quarantine hospital, four and one-half
miles from Hull The mortality was
confined TO the men who had lived In
the forecastle OF the ship there several
rats were found dead and the dog and
the cat quartered there were taken
sick and had to be destroyed"
The residents Of Hull did not become
panic stricken, nor did the leading
business men Of the city declare in the
interest OF trade. as was the case In
San Francisco, that the health au-
thorities had not discovered bubonlc
plague The people Of Hull trusted their
health officers and relied implicitly on
the statement that medical science
could stamp out the plague. And the
| results show that this confidence was
| not misplaced The plague was con
! fined to those who had contracted Il
aboard ship, No resident Of Hull took
| the disease.
| ~ u ~ NlANlA llt UphlluT VI INSsiui-
| lty that some plague infected ship may
land at one OF our docks, In case OF
such an undesirable event the expert
ence Of the people Of Hull should go a
long ways IN the direction of'Queting
the fears Of the tmid. And really
there will be no cause for fear where
yer capable health authorities do their
duty
The thoroughgolng methods adopted
by the Hull authorities may serve as
an example to be emulated should the
plague come this way, Health Ofllcer
Mason describes these methods In this
fashion,
The whole Of the crew, the nursing
stan and those who had been In any
way exposed 10 infection. NUMBERING
| upward Of 50 persons. underwent Han.