The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-03
Cholera Figures To
Be Suppressed
BY The Japanese
Unnecessary Alarm Given As
Reason For Action Of
NJ Home Office

oording to a government announcement
September 4. This Is the last time
the number Of cases will be made pub.
lie, however, for the authorities of the
home Office have instructed the police
in Toxic and other cities to discontinue
the publication of the number " Uases.
In nm explanation Mr.. Nakagawa, di.
rector Of hygienic affairs in the home
Office. stated that the publication may
give unnecessary alarm TO the people.
Would Hurt Foreign Trade
He said the numbers hitherto pub.
lished each day have accumulated
since the beginning of the epidemic,
and do not state the number of exist.
ing cases. Many Of the patients in.
5luded in the totals have died or recov-
cred, he said, If such numbers be re-
ported TO foreign countries without ex.
PLANTATION, Mr.. Nakagawa said, they
will create a still worse impression
upon the people abroad and impair thu
trade of Japan Indirectly. s..
The last report shows that there
were twenty cases in Toxic, $40 in
Osaka, Jog in Kanagawa prefecture
and $50 in Nagasak. ~ a.N
American Consulate Acts Tux d..
I The following circular was issued
August 2slto the sixteen shipping com.
.panies and agents in Yokohama by
Ptieorge IL. Seidmore, American consul.
general; 81. "a ,J# ~.
Son account Of the presence in cpl.
demio form of cholera Asiatiea in
NagasaId and Osaka, second cabin and
,teerage passengers from those ports
Ind other districts of japan, where
,holera Asiatica may appear in cpl.
lemic form, should be kept under OBJ
servation for q period of ten days be.
fore they be granted passage for Amer
lean ports ...- '
The situation at Manila continues to
become alarmingly worse. According TO
a despatch received by the Japanese
foreign Office, in one week, ending at
light O'Clock the morning of Septem.
Der ., lis cases were reported, forty
i've resulting in death. 3 OF all the
philippine Islands, twelve States had
t22 cases, 273 Of which were deaths.
Manila has been declared cholera.
infested port by the government gen.
raj of Hongkong. .h..ra, ~ q 1;s.,s,. Z
danila Has l12 New Gases
Mr.. Sugimura, Japanese consul ut
Manila, stated in a dispatch to the for
ign Office that in the week uppto eight
o'clock in the morning Of August 26,
the number Of new patients suffering
trom cholera in the Philippine Islands
.eached liz, and the number Of deaths
lfty.six. In the thirteen States Of tho
stands the total number of sufferers al
hat time was 235 and the dead 1888. i3f
The Japanese consulate in Bangkok,
in despatch to the foreign Office, gave
he figures on deaths from epidemic
diseases as follows; Deaths from ehol-
era between August 9 and August %,
, one, bringing the total of deaths from
the early part of the year to twenty.
Dne; deaths from pest between August
l6 and August % were six, bringing
the the total up to 392, thus making q
total of seven deaths in that period In
August and of ALB from the early part
IF the year. ....r
| }preading in Osaka d.. -@tsb
Nineteen fresh cases of cholera were
reported to have occurred at Osaka
August 81, making 400 cases. G{
Cholera appears TO be spreading TO
all parts Of Osaka, and q number Of
ncw cases are daily recorded. The dis
ease is also spreading to the neighbor-
ing counties with surprising rapidity.
Up till August 20 294 cases had been
recorded Oncluding cases in country
iistriets). On August 20 eighteen new
cases were reported in Osaka and
twelve in the country. According 10
investigations made by the home Office,
ne cases throughout the country up ia
august 90 numbered 865. .,.Eg4sl
Cholera has now invaded Korea, va.
suda Chiku, steerage passenger on
the ferryboat Roma Maru of the Rail.
way Board between Shimonoseli and
Fusan, was pronounced in quarantine
as cholera suspect. Her illness
greatly alarmed the people of Fusan,
and the authorities of the town imme,
diately began measures of precaution
against the spread Of the disease.
A despatch to- the Japanese foreign
office from Shanghai stated that the
importation Of fruits, vegetables, ETC.
from countries where epidemic diseases
fprevail has been prohibited there in
accordance with the regulations con.
eerning the quarantine at Shanghai
unless they have been clearly shipped
and certified by the medical bfiders OF
the Shanghai port, s...
laval Station Has Cases y
New outbreaks are reported fire.
quently. The latest is at Yokosuka
where Japan has one Of her strongest
naval stations. As many sailors, and
workmen at several large naval arsen
ais, live there, the quarantine authori
ties are doing their utmost to prevent
the epidemic from spreading. ~
Admiral Fujii, commander of the
naval station at Yokosuka, issued u
order prohibiting all noneommissi6ned
officers and men of the service there
from landing from their .warships, be
cause of the outbreak. The town OF
Yokosuka was almost deserted in con
| sequence. sgA
Appeal To Government 4f
Representatives Of the fshmopgert
at Nihombash have appealed to thu
government for relief from their pres
| ent distress, while many other fish
| mn on "a alSn rnpnrfadtA ~ ha - IA.