Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-05
Federal EXPERTS
FAIL To find


the UOWing water, may nave bccu
transferred to some distant portion of
the pond.
Knowing these facts, we undertook
this examination of water with little
hopes of being able to isolate this or
ganism.. but for sake of completeness
we have made tho attempt and, to in
crease our chances of success as much
ns we could we have collected a rather
large number Of samples. In most
cases our samples were two gallons OF
the surface water. chosen from cspc-
cially suspicious parts of the ManOa
stream or irrigation system.
"In all. 1903 samples of water (and
several samples of taro) were collect
I'd by Acting Assistant Surgeon Holl-
mann and were turned over To Assist
nut Director CleEg for meteorological
examination.
"Or these 1903 samples of water, six
spirilla were grown Two of these
spirilla Mr.. Clcgg was able To Isolate
IN pure culture. and neither Of these
proved 10 be the spirillum cholera.
The other four spirilla were so mixed
with the natural organisms Of the
! water that IL was not feasible To iso-
ing more time from our regular work
with lcprosy than We felt justified In
doing The four badly mixed cultures
of spirilla have therefore not been
Identified.
ut will he seen from this that we
have no meteorological evidence Of the
existence Of cholera IN this water. but
II II needless to say that such mega
tive evidence Is of little Importance
. ono way or the other"
Tho probability Of cholera being
present in Honolulu previous to tho
first reported case Is referred to by
DIR. Currle as follows:
~ found no record of cases. proceed
ing February I, the surrounding cir
cumstanccs Of which excited suspicion,
except the following:
ION December PC. 1910. DR. III was
asked to examine body of man In IA
boathouso near Gold Mine Iwilei. The
name of the sick man was Toela Ka-
! makahiki CDcccmbor death roll No. $50.
/ DR. III questioned the patients wife
and considered the patients symptoms
had been suspicious OF cholera. An
! examination OF the body by DR.. IL in
I creased his suspicion. The patient
died after less than two days illness.
and on December 20 DR.. Emerson per-
formed nccropsy on the body. As "a
result OF this examination n diagnosis
Of pneumonia, complicated by kidney
disease was recorded.
"on April 10 we investigated, as far
as was possible the circumstances sur
rounding this case. We learned that
this patient worked as night Waterman
at the above mentioned japanese boat
house, but he neither ate nor slept
there. The owner of this bOathouse IL
Yoshlkawa, King street bicycle shop.
next to the Young Hotel. This Jap
anese states that the man slept In the
third house from the boathousc, In the
] Gold Mine camp. The house, which
the Japanese indicates as the resi-
dcncc of the patient, happens to he
next door to the house occupied by MIR.
and Mrs, X. February death roll Nos.
iS and 56), both of whom probably
died OF cholera later february 10 and
| lG).
He usually bought his poi from the
| Chinese poi shop of Kong Wo Long on
King street. and wilei, opposite the
railroad depot, IA was afterwards adj
mitted Ioela's wife states that before
this man sickened, II japanese, a new
employc named Kubo.' came tn the
boathouse to work there, and this Jap
ancse had only been there few
hours, when her husband sickcncd;
hut, contrary to what the wife of loela
stated, this Japanese had been with
this company for long time, and had
been In this Territory Tor over twelve
years. He would come down to tho
bathouse and pay Iocla, and this may
probably account for the wife's idea
that he was n new man, as he rarely
visited the camp-only about once a
month. Kubo lives on King street
near the railroad depot.
The poi shop OF Kong Wo Long
King street and Iwilci opposite IN,
railroad depot, later supplied the two
suspicious Gold Mine cases of Fobru-
airy II and IL