The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1910-12-30
If Nothing Else Remains Wash
ington May BE Asked to Stop
the Diseased from Landing.
PLANTERS ARE AST0NISHED
Quarantine Officers Say Present
Condition Makes Farce of
All Other Work.
PLANTERS ARE ASTONISHED

Unless a way can be found 10 stop
it. and the way IS being sought, there
will be d1mped on this community be
fore the end of another week, the last
batch of Filipino "laborers to arrive:
This collection of one hundred and ten
persons include fifteen inflicted with
trachoma, some being 50 bad that had
thev arrived as aliens the steamship
bringing them would have been fined
one hundred dollars a case. Fifteen
of the newcomers have active cases OF
syphilis, while thirty odd show plain
evidence of the disease. If subjected
to extreme tests, three out of every
four of them would show signs of the
loathsome disease.
These are Just starter II the cata-
logue of diseases the newcomers have
brought, according TO the figures shown
by an examination mase by both ter
ritorial and federal health officials.
Thirty OF the Filipinos have an incur
able and highly contagious disease
known as amoebic dysentery: three or
four of them are in advanced stages OF
tuberculosis: over half of them have
hookwOrm; four out Of every ten have
the itch; two are afflicted with berl-
beri and two are now down with pneu-
1nonia \ few other unmentionable dis
eases complete the list.
This is the condition of affairs faced
by the government officials looked 70
to protect he health of the community
and the officials of the planters asso-
citation who paid the freight on the
various collections Of germs represent
ed. When the examinations of the Fill
pinos were being made on Wednesday
at Quarantine Island, Governor Frear
was present.
Now. he has the attorney general
looking up the territorial law to see II
there is some way in which the ter
ritorial authorities can take hold and
prevent this batch of diseased human
ity from being turned loose Oh the
community.
If no other way can be found, the
Governor may cable to the secretary OF
the treasury asking that instructions
be issued to the local federal officials
of the quarantine service to hold the
Filipinos until a full report can be sent
TO Washington and some final dlspos1-
ton of the cases made. The Governor
does not say positively that he viii
cable. but he has this expedient IN
mind in ease no other way out of the
difficulty can be found.
Making Quarantine Farce.
''The idea of permitting these people
to land here IN the condition they are
makes a farce of all our work. stated
Doctor Ramus, chief quarantine officer.
yesterday ''Look at the absurdity Of
1t. We meet the Japanese steamers and
refuse T. landing to all the japanese
who shog signs of trachoma, then we
let the,AFilipinos land with traehoma
in its u aggravated form. We order
the deAtati0n of a Portuguese, be
eause nd afflicted with a scalp
disease ld the Territory goes TO the
expenst%f sending a man like Ray
mond Brown half around the world to
escort this one and two others ira
ehoma case and an imbecile-baek 70
Funchal Then we turn around now
and let fifty or sixty badly diseased
persons come in without being able To
do ANYTHING.
''We stop the fairly clean and let
in the filthy
Smallpox and Diphtheria.
''The recent epidemic on Maui, both
the smallpox and the diphtheria, have
been traced TO recently arrived Fill
pinns, - reports another member OF the
Quarantine service. 1.-The connection
between the newcomers and the first
eases Of the diseases Is plain anu IN
mistakah1e -
Plague Also.
The first ease Of plague reported for
several months j. also that Of F1h-
pino. a three-year-old child dying with
in the past few days at one Of the
Filipino camps at Honokaa, three miles
from the village Four plague infected
rodents Were found a rat and three
mice, and the tests made in the Homo
iulu laboratory prove c0nclusiVeiy the
presenee Of the plague germ.
A vigorous autirat campaign l. gong
on at the infected center and the health
authorities and the plantation manage
men are actively cooperating IN the
cleaning Uu.
Not Single Desirable.
According 20 federal rulings regard
Ing the landing here OF aliens, there
Is not one member of the present Fill
pino bunch Of enc hundred and ten who
could be passed by the health an1 i'm
migration officials
Doctor Ramus states that fifty per
cent. of the bunch would have 20 be /
excluded and deported because Of their |
physical condition. while immigration /
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