The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-19
SITUATION IS
COMPLICATED
Seven New Cases Of Smallpox
Doubles the Quarantine
Of Immigrants.

Seven new casos Of smallpox found
yesterday among the eighteen hundred
Portuguoso and Spanish immigrants on
quarantine island have got the officials
in charge CT them, facing doubled
difficulties and win nearly double the
expenses che federal and territorial
government will have heen put to.
Two Of the cases broke out in the
isolation hospital and consequently do
not change the situation, but three Of
the others broke out in the measles
camp, another in the Portuguese camp
and the other in what is known az the
outside Spanish camp. The significant
feature of the new. developments is that
the disease has appeared among inn;
migrants who have been isolated from
supposedly infected quarters for fifteen
days, or one day over the incubation
period which is generally allowed by
modern medical science. Ja
Local officials are inclined TO lay EN-.
phasis on this fact, particularly as the
joint request Of chief quarantine officer,
DR.. Ramus and President Pratt of the
board of health for twenty-oneday
quarantine has been peremptorily
turned down by the Washington powers.
The request was based on the supposi-
tion that the disease, owing to modern
Vaccination precautions would take
longer to develop, than is ordinarily
the case, as it has proved.
Conferences are today awaited to
clear the situation up and at present it
is not known exactly how the new
cases will effect the situation with re-
gard to farther quarantine. =. y sa' u
The seventy five or eighty people in
the measles camp will have to Femain
in quarantine. for fourteenadays, dating
from yesterday, when the three pa
4 tientsowere found among theachildren.
All of theseIcases had, been hidden by
the mothers from the authorities thus
comphcRting the situation They oc-
Cured n;three separate tents:i Oneicase
is typicallli ,-.i II slis slc
Theavictim in the Portuguese ramp
is four-year, old girl who had been
sick for two days and secreted from the
nurses and physicians. There is no
question but that the inmates of this
camp win also have to remain in
quarantine for the additional fourteen
days. 1t as believed that girl will die.
The case which broke out in the out
side Spanish camp occurred in a boy
who was, fortunately, discovered in the
early stage of the disease and isolated
at once. It: Is generally believed that
the disease is not contagious until the
pOcks break out, and as he was removed
from the camp before this took place, a
consultation will be held today to de,
termine whether the other immigrants
in that camp can be released at the
regular time or not. ,sA
| The isolation hospital is now full over
proper capacity and separate camp
| has. been established, for the measles
cases. Any number of other cases
breaking out in the future would be
hard TO handle, although means woald
have to be arranged, of course, TO care
for them. There have been twenty-one
deaths from various causes on the
island since the arrival of the immi-
grants which makes forty-eight since
they left Gibraltar.
The main corral in which are housed
$50 SpRniards, has so far shoWn no
signs OF Further infection and if this
is true tomorrow, when their quaran.
tine period expires, they win be re-
moved to the immigration station to
undergo the immigration examinations,
and if found qualified, admitted to the
country. IT must not be forgotten that
theoretically, no single person of the
eighteen hundred is yet in the United
States