The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1900, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1900. -~ DANGER OF PLAGUE HAS PASSED AND VIGILANCE WILL INSURE COMPLETE SAFETY . TO THE CITY .o@¢'506,v0€0€»07<~>04>&—@4~3~. ® A Most Rigid Quarantine: #fleys iDr.George F. Shrady Declares That Chinatown Can . . < 1 . b 4 . : S . . . . Being Maintained While: of i Be Permitted to Remain in Its Present Filthy Health Officials Cl . the Chinese : Condition Onl M f the Most D ealth Officials Cleanse: $ ondition Only as a Menace of the Most Dan- the Chinese Quarter of: uarter : oggpous Character to San Francisco. I R f ; ‘7 h a i fl re Q40400600400 0000000000000 é+®+o+<>~o~swo—*t | @A AT A AT AT AT A AT A A A SR [ ] ? | s heluse. } i % THE GREAT LESSON OF THE HOUR - @eieieieioioie ’-0:0:o:o—iv:—oéfldvomM@-‘-@—O—‘ ”ow .‘2 » 4 0 living case of plague yet seen in San Francisco. From Q 3 ”fldet‘gomg 3 % 0my p?)int of vie'v)v, %ein; a mere visitor here, this con- % : >-a 41k dition of things is somewhat difficult to explain. In * ! (9//(6'!6!1 71¢ this state of mind the people in San Francisco very ¢ : I fi N B 6 et T Son Fraver B 5 a real live exam) ? * : nsp eciion . very much concerned about the quarantine question and well " : and 2 0 she might be. The merchants are most particularly anxious ) . 5 % on the question, as it is easy to see that millions of dollars ¢ P o o ps f‘ are involved in its proper and practical settlement. ) b j"umlgaflon. +10 Texas has already quarantined against San Francisco. ¢ - % The fear on the part of the people of San Francisco is that » : » g other States, actuated by like and what appears to me to be { ® 210 senseless fears, may also follow suit. The fact is every ) : 2 * precaution has been taken at this end of the line to guard * . L against any possible spread of the disease. It might almost ¢ 2 3 0 be said that plague is not here. Where isit? It is only the s ¢+ * fact that the authorities here are straining a point to be on *» 2 $ ¢ the right side, and I can testify to the fact that so far as ¢ . s () the control of the disease is concerned it is perfect here. 3 ? 33 There is no cause for alarm on the part of outsiders. China- | : + 4 town is guarantined, and that quarantine is for all practical . s ) purposes perfect. * bt 3| The universal verdict is that Chinatown must be | ¢ + 0 cleaned up, plague or no plague. | think | have in some de- 5 + % scriptions of tours in this district made it so plain that . . s é (}hlnatown‘xs so notoriously filthy that glmost any supefla- ? 30 tive could fit such a condition. Considering all things, itisa * p + % great wonder that plague or any other infectious dis- . ¢ () ease has not swept Chinatown long ago with a tidal wave 3 )¢ % of awful mortality. Itis yet a serious question whether or % s + & not we have heard of the last case from the recent invasion. L : 110 These are certainly serious considerations for San ¢ + % Francisco and for all those who are directly or indirectly * ¥ 2% connected with its vast mercantile and maritime interests. % s 410 She has in her very midst the most threatening of all con- ¢ 2 f ¥ tributing elements of plague propagation in the invitingly * . 4§ filthy condition of her Chinese quarter. In this latter place, ¢ +|) if the plague should get a firm foothold, it will find its nat- $ $i% ural soil for the most widespread and awful dissemination. * e The lesson of the hour seems to be that no possible chances ? ! in any direction should be taken that it get any foothold * - +| ¥ whatever. | am confident from what | know of the dispo- : 3% sition on the part of the leading citizens here that it will be S + |0 all right in time if only a littie patience is exercised and sis- * 4 , $|% ter States are willing to await the events of the next few 3 o I +|¢ days. San Francisco has never been waked up before on o | «|) sanitary questions as she is now, and there are earnest * . i $ % men here that are backing a movement for reform which . * ¢+ | ¢ may astonish every one who is awaiting results.—Excerpt ¢ ji f * from fourth day’s report of Dr. George F. Shrady. * : ' NP LSO i f ‘ .@;gnrsdn;\wc&@-#c.&F~4:i\t~‘~.;f B . b) 00 SR 2o ¢ [ 3 oo n reoorine 50, Sohucno; | SUSTENANCE ASKED FOR : \ S e e | [ 3| R e e OEARSNTINN. Coms € ¢ | us? "One slausible reason for this condi- | 4 & | om direction on the part of the citizens | Six Companies Petition Health Board 8 4 | between May 15 and y ve been | & 4 | here that it will all be earlier in A 0! en regularly reported ¥ &5 ¢ © | events of the next few days. It seems P - b 1 tnhi‘nkbtehgrhrisg\::ln,\r]i'nu:ull.'urirn(’n].fnrllhi]:lvl:::\)-' 4 ? :p(;:(:;!»;‘;:njng B o Hhiny Chdion - * € b it e e T i L e e S e It - 4 |been enforced by the Health Boara ®| s Of the worst dwelllngs of New | O rter. "The text of the communication : TR ey 3 | Chiaadkon ‘e’ 1o tha by ot ‘Dutving | J & § et i Vo ihroiah the-dark. | LT the Board 4 3 $ [ arns e vasagta? Bat x|t ey e P G o B iy . 64-6-0-6400-6004000 | Jora bo ctated. Certaln it s that the in- | @O-0—-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-9-0-4-0-4-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-4-0-+-0-0-640-+-@ | o Nose York In our own Health Depact. i the health authorities means | habltants of Chinatown are afraid of the | the truth is searched for, the better for | on the part of any one of the cltizens “}‘,‘,’.{'héfl‘iiufifl?{“" R T ratan o i . ) » to whiel ‘eferred ye: HE so-called plague situation in ] activity ty has greatly simplified it- | nothing of the sort. It simply means | White doctor, and especlally are they in | the truth. There is no dliposition, so far | | reatly simpli t g sort simply s ) 3 v i ; s no- disposition, ar | even of those w : I £ shinde ok Ml il Ritesd the people of San Francicc, | t€TTor of the members of the Health can sce. ‘either. on the Dart of the | here Is any necossity for s doiass voesy | terday. T am confident in the f e vh their off Board. The Chinese phys| i eral or the local health authorities, to | on decount of ihe wo-ionSe deing. merely | that if such a board had full sway in t sco was to become 1gh their officials, have awakened | ;cateq, srresponsible, and has éa- | tion, The universal verdies 15, that China. | CLLY, the conditions as at present existing nic of the dread | [0, the startling fact that they have a 4 P A . ersal verdict is that China- | would be absolutely impossible, and if i e . irough . i ng his opinion upon | town must be clea i practice; but in the vast majority of cases | the situation or the significance of the | piague. Tt teerow gned Up, plague ruGiat poaas wete BHma {0 Sxleb thave would b n is uned- o license to dispute the right of any competent- medi- cal gentleman expre at houses in w been affected w 2 3 plague spot in their midst and ‘that it | this inaiv s st v : apprehension -has. p: JRgnc t i t i is Individual is almost universally em- | revelations from the specimens, | devel s ccted wi such an army of inspectors, such a house- | {ofted; that « must be removed whatever the cost |ployed by his people. These native medi. | NOW, as to the autopay proper, it is well | S bane simptoied with the plague | to-house sitation as would astonish the | i, covire @ - . most stolid and impassive Chinaman. I fected common consent officia may be. f t 3 . S . n i cine men are not obliged by any special | 12 53y in 2 general way that nothing spe- | of the fact w v o? e Federal—declare that quarantine was maintained yes- | Ordinance to report suspicious cases to.the T'“" significant of plague was discovered | deslrahlam;aco‘:‘m;}‘s)’;:’:c‘*llgrfllmsel‘lsi!i‘t‘l?t‘ % | do not say this as any reflection against > e g S et i beitar & : S % Y5 | health authorities and are certainly not i1 the gross appearances of the organs | the city liable to breed f | or upon the Board of Health of San Fran- | sanitary condt e slightest danger to | terday far more rigorously than it was | willing 1o do 86 of thels owi aatod for | Temoved. “Awalting further developments | {imo.. @ to breed disease at any | cisco, but cannot help wishing that the | = The istrict e city or State. Dr. | the day before. The detail of police | obvious reasons. This partly explains the | 1 Shall report later. T DN T Bave i adeie. Saecitss ¢ [New’ York board was here for just one | of your hasorabie b George F. Shrady, who was induced to | Was doubled and no one was permitted {lac[ ‘thal the first notice to the authori- | ti&r%r;xcml:t I had heard of the opposi- | tours in this district made It plain. that ;"“i.‘md then what would the citizens of | in which more New York He out submitting to inoculation. The | body. Then the Health Board takes the | o me that an objection was Thade on the (il?ls;n?nins‘éfrer;xig:essgt‘llf;:\smns‘r’:gz Giffer | the cltizens sald: “Well, {t is ifl;lvf:s‘;‘rl‘;’elefl'g most _ efrectiy health inspectors are conducting a thor- | matter in charge. It was in this way that | gg;te&futuhoeu:n:hen The Chinese are very | ent dogrees of comparison in the down | I _have answered if you had our board Jromptly arl . which is pub fuse and filth, which will be burned. | * Now it appears to be the intention of | 40D- One Chinaman informed me that it | pressed with (he fact. The heathen | The end is sure: but the citizens of “San ot there is mor | A gigantic sulphur fumigator is being | the Health Board to make an autopsy on | a5 & Dar 0 the future happiness of the | Chinee” plays his game With dirt, and he | FTancisco are ihoroughly appreciating g e D o da taere 18 MOt | tced in the district in 2 house-to-house | 5;’52‘.'"‘;.":‘;‘;(:‘:’:,%‘.‘52?} u-,;,',}: ?gfs("a"u[; e;""’ B Mk e T l{.us“r;!ot o{dy 3 full h,ar}d. ;a‘ut carries his ;*:Il; f:ecet aé‘f I{“Ev k e (‘ahr:rl!fnr(l to wait and ates to i . nspectic i 3| 3 v " n- | s pe rad jonal extra card in s sleeve, H - an Francisco as mev e ’:“57‘ tes to > or tn :“nr;'n:e]:nm Ip‘q‘;b‘,‘l‘:‘hp:l'%o:' ‘:,f ‘h‘l au- | formed chat ihe mortality in Chinatown ];f‘:,’l"gl:hm";“'hlthsequz\;agéi;r"q:xesudo‘nr."and Washes for tha Christions becanse he 1o | Waked up before on sanitary ausstions construe frc i taemesrmeoibsit {7 etention hos- | I8 very low; in fact, Dr. Wilson informed | hrobiam et o5, AtRest It is a dificuit | willing to miniater to their foolish whims, | 25 she s now. and there are earnest men being taken to cleanse > are ng a movement for pital on Mission Rock for all - | me the other day that there was only an e Jn_thia way he fosters his own personai | here that are ba ties bel all persons | 788 U OF about two deaths a day. ‘Phia. | MOSt particularly anxious on the question, | indifference to cle in His own | Teform which may astonish every one wio hes believe threatening He urges, in pendent from which tine order duty devoives who may be found in infected houses. | as it is eas; i y 1 ses. | consiaering the population, s 4 S easy to see that millions of dol- vel. VOrs all i 3 ves | IS aw: s ol 3f ,_my“m. that 3F another case of | rate of nb‘r" wcmwp Il" “cn"l:n\ceery“l_;m | L.Cr;[ :::“ienl:ol\*ed in its proper and prac. ‘l}wlg‘}gs ;h;x::n%l;?n?xfiqflrlll é?lf?-“;nfl‘:-pb?x?rfi: lntl,\'alvv:fgrnrvf:;glr;n ?gvln(ahritnl;r“a{; :?;ar‘; he disease is fot the infected struc- | this intention niamed there was an au- | hofinaeg as-t’-:"i B e '{"xd%’ Quar- | direction, and stupidly and passively re- | cerned, here and elsewhere, to say that will be destroyed. United: Sk topsy made on a child this morning by | Sntined against San rancisco. In con- | sists all missionary efforts to the contrary. | the real situation is not by any n ;= XN States | DY Kelloog. *Drs. Whitehasse Jeims.ov | 3 r. Blunt, the health officer | His person may appear clean enough, buf | bad as it might otherwise ba, & o 0 =° Tars nyselt and several other medicai | oo 132&'-5?,”’?,?“?'::(}1 Who came here | one would not ish to run the Tisk of tak. | It mIght ifterest the gy readers of ter the district. but they must sub- eri. The child apparently T the interests of his State, I|ing pot luck with him in his own quarters, | the Hera he C: o r the ¢ y rst su : ¥ | learned that the mere report of th v . quprte and The Call to know that 1 dea 5 e s was v = > 3 e part | with a tidal wave of tie most awful mor. | the leading local paj = Soon pers. In one Instance, v Census Marshals will be allowed to en- | Wilson the legal du ased to meet main is investig tion is cver. He congratulates the thorities upon the energy they have di ved in Quarantinin % 11 rest v 2 i ; | having been under the care of *hi; played in quarantining Chinatown and | \n8 Yesterday and discussed the vitally | e e care of a Chinese | of the people of San Francisco is that ; in displaving a esire 1o cleanse the filth | MPOTtant matter of providing food for | con g alcian, who was.in (he employ of | SLhcr, States, actuated by like and what UnliRely that thefe may b & repetitionof | Arot Tt ahums 1 Ghet o GEDYTIEN, (e e hoard and spot as effectively as possible. The | the people in the district. Nothing defi- | the Six Companies, just before death. | Sphcon (0, me to be senseless fears, may | recent unpleasant experiences. It is vet | produced here ;xmfiuéf..?iflffi‘yw?&“ 15| Judge Maguire addressed He PoGD ST o follow A D suit. The fact iS every pre.|a serious question whether or not we have publication in New York and in The Call. said that out of cc d for those who famous expert declares that the Chinese | 711¢ Was done, as the question must be | This autopsy was made in the Morgue in | caution has been taken at this end of the | heard of the last case from the recent in. | ity food should be pr - rod shoule quarter is filthy 10 a degree almost bai. | Submitted to the Board of Supervisors. | 0% GRine "word came that the fathor ae | Une to guard against any possible spread | vasion. ~These are certainly serious con- | an eAtly came ot is Bamtersy cined from o o the quarantined section fiing description, and that as long as it | - ——— clined to have the body removed from | of the disease. It might also be said that | siderations for San Francisco and for all | will give (o of the Eastern paper. This “IMC ) urden of « for these poor s it w ist as ace of the | SISTER STATES HAVE | the house to the Morgue and 8o vehemont | Lh¢ Plague s not here. Where I8 it? It | those who are directly or indirectly all | witt give the Herald's and Call's readers | ,;fortunates should fall on the city fc mains it will exist as a menace of the | S s eliement | is only the fact that the authorities here | nected with its vist mereaRtile and’ marl- | aopore: oF ‘e Lbscciation by other news: | wpose benefit the quaranting Iy majgiaiy- - 250atd Judge Maguire. “The autnori- | were his expressions of disapproval that | are straining a point to be on the right B T Gl capvrte &8 e Torald 2] time interests. . She has in her very midst most serions character to the people of NO REASON FOR | . e [ FEAR | 2t one time it was thought requisite to | side, and I can testify to the fact th and The Call. Coplous abs s of the the city oo use compulsion by the police, but "the |far ‘as the control of the fiscase 1 con | Cmms of biasening of all contributing | reports are aiso Fdproduced i the Chin: He suggests the most radical meas- | medical attendant of the patient referred | o ue propagation in the in- | c g ical meas- | pr, Shrady Declares That Plague Is|to succeeded in_reconciling the differ- éi-’:’éfi"r# u'fm?n.}”oenc(th‘;e?dn r?lh %m;:fle?: vitingly” filghy” Sonditian ‘ot Her Chinese S;emgult;‘ch;:{;‘r;[x:::‘.mnll'(‘e%x:’? R tats 1 ttorney Bennett argued that the people should_do something for those who ve been deprived of the means of earn- ing their livelihood.” ures to remove the dangers existing in | v uarter. In_ this latter pl T dhctrict, and sayx thas o Chinatowy | Frecieally Mot Mere, but China- | SHEC%, 40, he Bod Ws dulf produced | Chinatown, i atarantined and that avar- | lagus snoula get & fArm toothota, ‘e wifi| wanaca: 5,59PY of this Orlental ahect 12 | might starve, unies, tome mearire” 3oto 74 Seiite -4 S . town K 1 'y 3 ¥ rposes per- t s . n, luly marked. ed wise as | | stated th: re e am permitted to remain as it is it will s a Grave Menace. | extra force for such purpose. fect. The house-to-house inspection up;-.- g;‘ren‘és 2:&“':;;3{1 a‘x‘éie.‘.?fi..‘.‘};‘:' "-'{.’:; {,hfi‘.dhlt( };x :r?y hand, but th;‘Q‘ele;cl(?!v;hv- »"‘:;{‘;,“?15 q!‘o“:l"mtwat(h!ah(e the city wa £ oS 0 me politely but quickly im- | responsible for the sustemance of t be for San Francisco a blight and ”i T |, The glands from the groin had been | ing conducted by a large corps of sani-|lesson of the hour s prright, 10, by the Herald Publishing | already removed by the attending physi- | tary Inspectors, the sewers are being gossitie chances"in Any direction 1ot he | parted the information that I was read- B et T S s aue di ce which inevitably will harm th o v | 2 7|.<‘jl'a e which inevitably will harm the | Company. ‘fr“uar;mfxm lIh:ng;'u;xmg of ;:E:fi:q“ffltteffim flushed, houses fumigated and altogether | be taken that It get any foothold shar | D€ it upside down, at which I decided (o Jitizen in Allentown, Penn., whose house oy o X | {nation 1 may state In passing that there | the whole matter is as well in hand from | ever. As in case of the latter the pla defer until later an exploration of S| had been quarantined because one of his in his report Dr. Shrady asks other | Lhing case of plague vet seen in | I8 & Ereat deal of apparent oppositionsto | a sanitary point of view as could reason-| or any other infectious discase is liabla | BieroSIyPhical contents. family had ‘become afflicted with an in- States not to look upon the rigid quar- | herr, eing & wmere viitay pooint of | Board on the part of the different Ghin | - Every membeér of the Health Board 1s | e Bniioe 1o Lurirg ke & Drogressive oK BN AR, antining of Chinatown as an admission condition of things is somewhat dif. | ceo societies, each of which appears fo be | sufficlently alive to the necessity of ciean- | = The Dedgle of Sah Francisco no doubt 0N 7 resented ' b dical fl Céf/ ; S e rep! ntes y a medical adviser, but|ing up Chinatown. There has not been | thoroughly appreciate the condition of w,.?gv‘ W 1 e ght. that the plague is in San Francisco. The | feult to explain. In this state of mini the | from a scientific point of view the more | made the first objection to such a move]thln;s and appear to be very much in, . t TA_T) Uiving case of plague vet see: NG plague vet seen in | for the food consumed by his family dur-