Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 159, 10 July 1894 — The Pest. [ARTICLE]

The Pest.

The following dispatches from Hongkong to the oHleial Japanese ! papers show how serions the | j “black death" is,even in the sea- ; port Hongkong. The authorities ; i here caunot exercise too mneh vigilance, and even the strictest measures against vesseis coming frora the West will be approved | of. “There were thirty-three new cases yesterday,and twenty-eight deaths.” Plague, Hongkong.slightly increasing; new cases 30; deaths 25. Today everything quiet. “There have been forty-one j new cases today and forty-eight deaths. The Government has , authorized stronger measures | beiug taken to stamp out the' plagne.” Threo soldiers engaged in work disinfection caught plague, two more under observation. Returns | last twenty-four hours: admissions thirty-three, deaths twenty-eight. ; Under treatment one hundred. There are fitty-nine new cases roported today, aad fifty-four deaths. There have been no deaths from plague among Europeans. ‘’Plague increasing. New cases 41; deaths 48; under treatment 114. New bye-laws passed Sanitary Board. Ins»nitary houses to be cleansed by Authorities. . Buildings unfit for habitation to be condemned. One military of- | ficer, three soldiers inspecting ] ' slums, attackevl by plague.’’ Tbe Pest is still ravaging the i Chinese quarters at Hongkong despite tbe rigid sanitary pre- ' cautions taken bv the authorities. • ‘ The diro visitation is said to be explained in a p>erfectly satisi factory manner by the natives. Feng-Shni is responsible for it, and Daily Pre*s learns that the ■ Chinese »re pretty unanimous in tbe belief that the Peak Tramway, of all things, is directly responsible not ouly for the outbreak of disease, but for bad timee, depreciation of silrer. and oiher woes, while the Praya reclamation must be held respoosible for the receni water famine. Many grosaly mischievous libels on ihe foreign doctbrs of Hongkong are rife in Canton. and aome insulting post cards and placauds

are in circaIation amoog tbe ! Chinese. A whoiesale exodas of Celestiais from tbe Coloay has been in progress for some d!tys. The presence of H. M. S. Tweed opposite Taiping Sban has bad a salatatory inAaenee apoa the Chinese residents in that quarter.