The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1900, Page 7

CHINATO THE SAN FRANCISCO CA o SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1900. 7 WN QUARANTINE RAISED BY ORDER OF FEDERAL COURT *beieieieteiebeie o she wn durl wit G & o e o e o e o e o g "N~EGLIVE * * L 4 b4 & + be . kS + ® ¢ P * * $ * L4 . DLopPE - Now © % 6 ® + + Scenes in Chinatown Du-ing Remcval of the Ropes. 3 : @ie e eieieisieieieieieieieieieiebebe b siebebei et etebede@ houses, where th ands of the unwashed | whole case t is evident from the | disease appeared or been alleged to have live W € th as to no | appeared. This large mass of people had | Dr. Kellogg’s “Suspects.” K ing the e been permitted to mingle and communi- en he in the might have been exposed to the plague to matter of the go freely among the remainder of the ten Judge Morrow w | to say that there | or fifteen thousand were XN or more pi o in quar- The court next turned its attention to - ¢ tined district quite like! the discriminating character of the R aatins ot rom that fact would be aquarantine. Within the lines of the e T T st mnajority rning whom the de- | quarantine certain houses were excluded N Sl SR AN 2. nts would e no knowledge and and others were not, said the court, and tivel S b @ g, v, gt jthing on which to found any belief. the boundary line was made to run flwe Sni g frgin the Duborle Dlusre t dificulty was one that inhered in|around the rear of certain houses. On R T o dlesih That 8 i ase r'-H.v])‘(lm in lhv‘- pleadings, alnd Stockton street two persons of a race t 21 Btone s | the court could not sustain an exception | other than Chinese were excluded from The doctor added that he had twe MOrd| o the answer on that ground | the quarantine, and thus the quarantine casel "-;')"’lflrfl;‘ “?(md“; 1'«r‘mm:‘;‘ H g T sbjection traversed by theé in terms was imposed on all the blocks. b e B o R b g — o fiatened | cOt hat it did not appear from the | The evidence was clear that this discrim oty 50 thi TeRl ¢ e i the ordinance had not been Mination was against the Chinese popula- avely to the reading o ')‘ ool with the nec ry formality re- | tion only, ana the reason given was be- although It was i \_"' it a ired by the charter. The court was un- cause the Chinese might communicate the min- ordered that nd published i rward the y evidence to that effect { the charter had not been but that fact had not been e to find an it might be ths complied with A FIAYOR. FLEALAN - { THE HA! HAEE " | | the repert away, say fficiently shown, and the court must ccision by | to make some changes. r nece rily presume that the resolution Dunne Considerable argument RIDER had been passed with the requisite for- by the | whether the police guard shou b s B e e e S Jurisdiction of the Court. ast Tuesday from the plague. The house | The court now came to what it termed been deserted, the former tenants | the serfous matter involved in the case, 3 d a quantity of furniture. |and that was the objection interposed on b fumigated. | the part of the defendants that the Fed- spread tacked on the al court had no authorit to examine through Chinatow s and wall sncing in several la o0 the question it appeared from the 12-% o'clock thousands of grin- | gueges that a death from bubonic plagy eturn that a_duly constituted department ng Chinese wer crowding occurred there. It developed during the |of the municipality of San Francisco had ot 8 : n the vi- | discussion that wherever a “plague” case | made inquiry as to the situation and had £F oKing es- | has oceurred the Chinese immediately | adopted resolutions and taken such action eeially toware hited Btates Ap- | scatter. and the health officer can never |as they deemed necessary, and that that a4 g A crowd of almost | learn their names or new addresses. The | being an adjudication of the matter on . Droportions 3 of the repre- | Chinese have always time to get away, |the part of a body having jurisdiction the - Pred of every nder the sun, | because quarantine cannot be established. | Federal court had no jurisdiction to in- ed Je of the ropes along Kear. | according to the board, until after the |quire into the reasonableness of the ac- B et waiting to see the fun. About | autopsy and preliminary tests for plague. | tion of the Supervisors. ock word was passed t 3 o'clock ;-. was decided Lo wu?;\rr‘:hflll‘wa”h(;l\;‘ra‘ On Quarantine Customs. » the hour fixed for removing the | from tone street afte: e R S0 A TR et b B ™ foar Cleansing Work to Go On. (that he had done o for the | fe c el £o_ epen 3 yr. Willlamson stated to the board that of showing the method of treat- . nd set out their wares on display. | Dr. Willlams ",\nu:é Chihatown and the ment adopted by the Board of Health for Captain Wittman Acts. regular inspection of houses will continue | the purpose r supervising this so-called m. a patrol wagon from the as befc The fumigation of houses and | plague by quarantining ten or twelve | i o ) to the corner of =ewers and burning of dirt will also pro- | blocks and not quarantining the infec < O o straets and Captain | ceed. Attorney Dunne will prepare ouses themselves. [t must necessari ttired in citigen’s clothes, got | resolution asking the & to take | follow that where so many had been quar- - In clUZENS ders to the | some action regarding the removal and re- | antined the danger of the spread of the - e “Immediately | construction of basins in Chinatown. The | disease would be increased rather than . oTen and @ dozen | doctor announced that it would be neces- | dimi slation against this class ins hustled | sary to drop a number of men employed | of s aimed to prevent the | — eir faces display- | during the quarantine. spread of ithe disease among (lg;;rén:;:fi. stside N nts of certs oc s, J nse > on the outside | Japanese Protest at Washington. | ihe population the more danger there is & g A dispatch was reived from Wa. that the disease will spread. The object cite- was no e - ok . by | ton last night st that pro: ' R o o pribyed minary to a c for damage: formally protested against I passing the order to th station, and in twer the compl on displayed by n Fr. s e Do 3 L. hen th s issued a round of the ropes. The patrol wagon 1ol |, 5" Asjatics, and in some cases they n the of the party, PicKIng | oo lompelled to undergo incculation, | - £ the o8 ta- | poth Mr . Japanese Charge ne. At Sacran and Stock Lreets | g'Affaires e Minister Wu vig- | e sidewalks W ercwded with people | o 0,00 protested against d imination of asses o1 rditons and a great | GrOUC.0 Nt of race and urged that if quar- hatterng of tongues ensued. The usually | on SECOLC M otessary all pe be in- to1i faces of the Chinese were all smiles | A01G08 TE" Jha not hines Znd they watched proceedings with | 510nC" ‘Tne’ State Dep that eve ppearance of satisfaction. both Japan and China have good grounds th Board's army of does not show on re still plenty of s and foul odors arising He: e work of the for complaint. Board Showed Weakness. United States District Judge de Haven ¥ looking from damp cellars. One inspector says | was not present in court when United | at the amount of filth removed and |States Circuit Judge Morrow delivered the burred up has been €0 enormous that one | opinion in the case of Jew Ho against the | who had not actually seen it could not | Board of Health, business having called helieve how ch had been accomplished. | him out of the city. But he concurred in Fut there appears to be yet much to do. | the findings and in the opinion, which was | delivered orally. With reference to the e s strong odor of chioride of lime i :‘\»das the whoie place and the yellow | averment of the board that it had no | of sulphur arise from manholes | knowledge or bellef as to whether Jew | Ho had or had not been exposed to the 'hg the streets, but even §o strong a b _ combination cannot down the smell of | plague, Judge Morrow sald: gark cellars and crowdes wasKem | “Tiy Sewrl must take netice of the) | of |in all of all such legislation was to confine the i u{ | ;"‘fl v!|‘\|‘!‘£ fliig i\ \ disease from one to another. That was discrimination in fact. After reading from the decision in the Chinese laundry case, the court went on to say that in this case, assuming that the Board of Supervisors had just grounds for quarantining the district, it seemed that In its execution by the Board of Health they left out certain places in the district inhabited by members of races other than Chinese. That was pre- cisely the point in the Chinese laundry cases which led to the decision of the United States Supreme Court, and characterization of the action of the au- tuorities as “the administration of the law with an evil eye and an unequal hand.” Discrimination Plainly Shown. Though on the face of the ordinance there seemed to be a lack of discrimina- tion, still, continued Judge Morrow, if the courts found that in its enforcement there was that practice and there was the pur- pose to enforce it with “an evil eye and an unecual hand,” it was the duty of the court to Interpose and declare the ordi- nance uiscriminating In character and therefore vold. invalid in that view, as being contrary to the provisions of the fourteent amendment, and that the Board of Health hai no authority or right to enforce any ordinance discriminating against any class of persons. Judge Morrbw next took up the prop- osition whether or not the evidence showed that the bubonic plague had ex- isted or did exist at the present time in this city. and read the afdavits of Drs. E. 8. Plilshury, H. D'Arcy Power, B. A H. Hodghead, ‘George L. Fitch, George | A Cable and Miss Dr. Worley to the ef- fect that the cases reported by the disease to the smallest possible number | health authorities as of plague were not ple, as a house, a_v isolated, so that the spread of the e might be isolated at once. This system of quarantine was well recognized communities and_was provided for laws of varfous States and munici- It was the custom to quarantine peo in th el or a car, | of | house first, restricting the disease to smallest number and that it might not extend to other people in the same io- cality. It necessarily followed that if a | -rritory was qu large ntined any large collcction of people there would rather tend to spread the disease than to re- | strict it. In the case of 1000 people crowded in that territory the nger would be increased in an alarming de- gree. Blunders of the Board. If the pla t"ue reported by the Board of Health on the 6th of March was the real }Bnnrd of Health believed or had a rea- plague, continued the court, the most dan- | Eerous thing that could be done was (o | y first quarantine the whole city as lhey|:;::l;z(‘t’gz‘fi:;"?;-‘::;"t, | Health Board. R]ngue at all, but of other diseases with similar symptoms. Dr. Worley's affidavit was that the Chinese girl who Gled in_the Pacific Hospital had been attended by her, and that the disease vas typaoid fever. All the affidavits lay stress upon the fact that no person had contracted the plague from any of the dead bodles of Chinese said to have died of the bubonic disease. “I think on such festimony as t said Judge Morrow, “I should feel com- pelled to hold that this plague has not existed and does not exist in this efty, but this testimony is contested by the In the face of such a con- fiict of testimony the court does not feel authorized to render a judicial opinion whether or not the plague has or has not existed.” The court added that If the sonable suspiclon that a contaglous or infectious disease existed in this city {t be_their duty to The court would did and the next most dangerous thing jeave such questions to be determined was to quarantine a large portion of the city, as they did in the case of Chinatown, where twelve blocks hal been quaran- tined, sud . net all # them had the by the proper authorities in that matter. Orders Quarantine Abated. “The evidence in this case is very the | Such being the case, the | court would hold that the ordinance was | $ g § B¢ § HEALTH BOARD ACTS. United States, in the cause entitled Jew Ho va. William- won et al., decided that the present general quarantine now pending in the Chinese aquarter of this city was im- properly established and is being improperly maintain- ed, ete.; now therefore be it RESOLVED, this June 15, 1900, by this Board of Health as follows: 1. That the present gen- eral quarantine now pending in the Chinese quarter of this city be and the same is hereby terminated. 2. That physicians in at- tendance upon Chinese pa- tients shall in no wise be in- terfered with or hindered in their attendance upon such patients. 3. That in all cases of fu- ture autopsies of Chinese persons who may die under suspicion of bubonic plague duly accredited representa- tives of the Chinese company or companies to which such decensed may have belonged sha be permitted to attend. And be it further RESOLVED, That this reso- lution go inte effect forth- with; that a copy thereof be forthwith transmitted to the Board of Supervisors of said city and county of San Francisco, and that said Board of Supervisors be re- quested forthwith to repeal all ordinances of theirs es- tablishing or authorizing, or purporting to establish or authorize, the cuarantine hereinabove referred to. D R R R R R T e e AR R R R R RIS S RS | @44 44444 44444 44444444444 I e e e e e e e R o e e e e | strong that the plague has not exist | and does not exist in this city,” said the court, “and it follows from the remarks that I have made that this quarantine | should not continue by reason of the fact that it is unreasonable, unjust and con- "lrsr,\' to the laws limiting the police po ers of the State. Seconaly, that it is dis | criminating in its character and contrary to the provisions of the fourteenth | amendment to the constitution of the United States. Counsel for the plain- tiff will prepare an injunction which will | permit the pboard to maintain a quaran | tine around such places as they may have ason to believe have contalned infec- s or contagio diseases, but the gen- quarantine must not be maintained. The court also made an order that the | Board of Health should permit physicians employed by the Chinese to examine and ssist at the examination of the bodies | of persons who may have died from sus- | pected plague, and to permit them to | visit their patients in Chinatown. The | quarantine, said the court, should be {placed only upon particular houses, in | Which case the attending physician will be allowed to continue his visits | privilege of attending autopsies | granted by the court to the phy | hired by the Chinese, with the “proviso | that the privil must not be abused through curfosity or other unworthy mo- tives. sl Chinatown Squad Changed. A change has been made in the China- town squad. Sergeant Pat Mahoney will still be in charge. but none of his old offi- Among the men who | | cers will go beck | will compose the new squad are John Da- | Vids. “Bob” Connors. J. J. McEntee and | Mike Hurley. The fifth has not yet been | named ADVERTISEMENTS. 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