Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — FEW VICTIMS OF PLAGUE. [ARTICLE]

FEW VICTIMS OF PLAGUE.

Bubonic Disease in Hawaii Vigorously Held in Check. There have been six deaths from bubonic plague iu Honolulu. Five of them occurred within a period of thirty-six hours, Dec. 11 and 12. The sixth occurred Dec. 14. Strict quarantine of the districts in which the plague appeared has been established. A house-to-house cleaning of all the infected districts has been made, and it is believed that no more eases will develop, or if they do that there will be no chance of the disease gaining a foothold or assuming the proportions of an epidemic. Of the six victims four were Chinese, one was a Gilbert islander and one a Hawaiian woman. The four Chinese and the Hawaiian woman died in the Asiatic quarter of the city. The Gilbert islander died some distance away in another quarter. With the outbreak of the plague a complete system of public medical attendance was inaugurated. Every ease of sickness of whatever nature is reported immediately to the board, of health and a physician from the bojird is sent to make an examination and brake certain that it is not a case of plague. Every death is thoroughly investigated. It is feared that the bubonic plague has reached Manila, and the health authorities are exercising the utmost vigilance to prevent the spread of the scourge. Two suspicious deaths have already occurred.