The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-01
ANTHRAX ATTACKS
n HUMAN VICTIM
Dairy EmpIoye Stricken Follow
ing Vaccination He Escapes
But Was Soon Recovered

The first human victim of the anthrax
epidemic at Moiliili was Uncovered yes
terdpy in the person Of .intoMo Comes
Pcstana, a Portuguese, twcnty-one years
Of age and an employee Of the Terrific.
rial Dairy, to which the epidemic is con
fined He is now at the quarantine hos.
pithl Of the board of health, and fol.
lowing prompt measures to save his life
IL is believed thai he win recover.
~ he does recover IL will not be alto.
Rother his fault, as he has already once
broken quarantine and run away, being
at large for some little time. He would
be at large STILL probably, had he not
called on Doctor Gaspar for an indepon-
dent diagnosis, the doctor recognizing
him and notifying the Authorities. V
Diagnosis Certain
Comes has been engaged Aon the task
Of burning the carcasses Of the, cattle
which have fallen victim TO the disease,
|now numbering twenty six. Diagnosis
| in his case ives established beyond
doubt. DR.. A. X. Hanchett Of the board
|of health staff made ARCHAEOLOGICAL
sliaes from the patient, proving that
the disease was well defined and iueits
third day, and the diagnosis was con
iifmed clinically and in other ways
Doctor Hanchett, through experience 40
| California, is, well acquainted with the
disease. The anti-anthrax virus was
Qiven Comes by DR.. II. 7. HOLMAN OF
| the United States Public Health Service.
| Early In the evening Comes decided
| that he had had enough quarantine
| Treatment and, taking advantage of the
lfrst opportunity, he slipped ont and
AWAY At eleven 'elock he was recap.
tured and put back in charge Of the
louafantino guard, @. Kiilebua, who viii
| be suspicious hereafter. '
( Physician Promptly Reported
| At eight-fhirty last night, giving his
name as Pestana, he called at the Office
| of DR.. Luiz r. Gaspar for Consultation
| The physician examined him and no
ticed that the patient had lately had
some injection in the upper arm. The
hair about the point where the injecl
tion had entered the arm had beer
shaved of. fh VI
1t was only after Comes left TIL
physician Is office that DOCTOR Gaspar 70
/ called that one Antonio Comes had beer
\ sent to the quarantine station in Kalihi
during the afternoon as human victim
OF the anthrax. He notified The Adter
tiser and this paper notified the sta
ton. Pestana was captured at his homo
in Marquesville. s,rneg n
! He had been scared at, 1.-THE summary
treatment he had received, failing I,
realize its Importance, anil had decidel
that he would place distance between
himself and the station whore he wal
kept. He is wiser now and content.
No Bovine Gases
This was the most startling feature
tof the anthrax situation yesterday
\ There has been no new bovine eases 70
eighty, -four hours, the two deaths tina
occurred in that time having been il
ono, instance that Of a COW sick sine
the epidemic started and in the othe
instance of a calf that succumbed TO an
other disease Another COW is dying
but has been sick for some time.
More .antiantbrax vaccine has beel
lrcceiyed from the mainland. and will b
divided between MoiliiIi and the in
fected district on Kauai.
In Preparedness
Donald s. Bowman, chief sanitary IN
spector Of the board Of health on tn
island Of Hawaii, arrived yesterday 3
| go over the situation and prepare him
self to combat the disease should j
break out on Hawaii. Bowman is IL
Originator pm the board of health of IL
preparedness first = policy, and his al
rival yesterday was typical Of his mod
of procedure.
Mayor Lane has authorized an emei
gency appropriation Of 5000 for the us
Of the city physician In anthrax, work.