Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — EVERY CASE FATAL. [ARTICLE]

EVERY CASE FATAL.

No Recoveries Among Victims of the Bubonic Plague in Honolulu. Up to date twenty-two deaths have occurred in Honolulu from the bubonic plague. Practically every ease so far has proved fatal. About 2,000 people have been removed from the infected quarter and are now herded in quarantine camps. The council of state has appropriated $20,000 for a garbage crematory and $250,000 with which to put the city in sanitary condition and guard against the spread of the plague. New eases of the plague are constantly appearing at points distant from the original center of infection, showing that the germs of the disease have been widely scattered. No passengers are allowed to depart until they have spent ten days in quarantine, under direction of the United States consul general. Incoming steamers cannot put any passengers ashore, nor can any one board them. Freight is carried to the steamers in lighters, and no vessel comes near to the wharves. A shotgun quarantine has been established on the island of Kauai, and no vessel or passenger is allowed to land. The removal of the quarantine restrictions on Chinatown just before Christmas is thought to have been responsible for the fresh outbreak of the disease.