The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-08
But II. X. X Liner Given Clean
Bill Of Health Thanks To
.... Il Preventive Measures
ALL STEERAGE PASSENGERS
/ ARE HELD IN QUARANTINE
Ships officers Adopt Stringent
Regulations To Guard Against
Dreaded Disease

An stecrdge passengers who arrived
in the T. X. X liner Shinyo Maru
from the Far East yesterday, 3SG all
told, were held in quarantine. One
hundred and seventy.nine Filipinos,
who had been tested at Manila as for
carriers of Asiatic cholera, now cpl
demic in the Orient, were turned over
to the planters to be detained pending
meteorological tests Of the others. The
remaining 2o7 passengers and three
stowaways were taken TO Quarantine
island. Tests will begin today.
They joined four suspected carriers
who arrived In the Seattle Maru n
week ago, tests of whom have not
been completed.
Clean Bill OF Health
No contagious diseases were found
in the Shinyo Maru. Daily throughout
the voyage, from ten-thirty to elAven-
geon, Capt w. C. T. S. Filmer, Chief
Jficer NJ. Otani, Purser John J..
Bourne, Chief Steward J. J. Richards
and the second steward had a muster
If all steerage passengers on deck and
N inspection. If any we're found in
heir berths the reason was ascertained.
In this way the ShinyO officers kept q
lose check upon the Storage.
Notices were posted in Chinese and
Japanese giving rules for the proven
ton of cholera infection, and ailinS
persons were sent TO the ships hospital
Immediately.
As showing the feur'fe in Japan,
ships officers said that only 1900 tons
of coal were taken at Nagasaki, instead
of the usual 1900 tons, because the
;oolies, residing near the city, would
not enter it to work the vessel, and she
lad to coal at Kobe and Yokohama as
well.
All Stay On Board
No passengers left the vessel at
Nagasaki, il was stated. One or two
clerks, whose business was urgent, went
ashore, bat, except for these, the Off
.crs and crew remained aboard. The
public WAS not permitted to board the
vessel Only two cabin passengers
were taken at Nagasaki.
According TO the ShinyO's bill of
health, there were sixteen cases aud
seven deaths from dysentery and LAG
Eases and seventy-two deaths from
Asintic Cholera at Nagasaki during
the two weeks ended August 20.
Former reports said there were 262
cases from August 8 to Is.
The Kobe report showed eleven cases
and two deaths from cholera and sew
enty seven cases and eighteen deaths
from dysentery during the two weeks
ended August II. Kobe has continued
TO report "dysentery" and pseudo
;holera" cases in large numbers
Eighty one cases of cholera had been
| reported at Osaka, the Kobe bin Of
lealth said. Passengers taken at Kobe
were six frst-cabin, six second cabin
and 1919 steerage.
Cholera Demon Busy
At Yok Ohama, during the two weeks
| ended August y, there were six cases
of cholera and five deaths in the city
| and ten cases and five deaths in the
suburbs, and thirty cases of dyscntrry
Snd eight deaths. Passengers taken on
here were l27 Cabin, twenty-five sec
ond cabin and 40 steerage.
Steerage passengers taken at 4Oko-
| hama had been under observation four
|
md Fl We days before embarking, 1t was
stated
A new and additional bill of health
! from YOk ohama was carried by the
SMnyO. Ii certified that Yokohama
was free of ePidemics of infectious
Ut contagious diseases, and was signed
I by the governor of ,Kanagawa Ken,
Full shore liberty was granted at
I Yokohama. In and about TOXIC accord
ing to recollection OF ofhcers, 300 cases
of suspected cholera had been re-
ported; This was not on the Yoke
hanna bill or, health.
4 Inc .Shahghl .b(ll OF heallh showed
mat Hholera Was SAID to be epidemic IA
NagaSakl and vicinity and also was
present IN Osaka ana Dalny (Daireh(
This last elty Is an MahGhvrla. spread
| OF the disease thlthef Indicates that the