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Show 1 CI IS PLAGUE 4 Physicians Investigate Death of a Chinaman. 4 San Francisco, May 30. The city board of health today held an autopsy on the body of a Chinaman found last night in a Chinese undertaker's establishment. estab-lishment. A member of the board stated that the result of the autopsy strongly indicated that the Chinese died of the bubonic plague. In order to demonstrate; fully whether or not it was a case of plague, cultures were taken from the glands for the purpose of making an animal inoculation. Dr. Shrady of New York assisted in the autopsy. Dr. Kellogg, bacteriologist of the board of health, was asked if the case was similar to the- nine already reported. re-ported. He said: "No, it is not. In face, we have not yet had two cases alike, and this last one is different from any of the former cases. .'It has not yet been verified, but all indications point to the conclusion that it is another case of plague. We shall use the same test as in the others, and after the cultures have sufficiently, developed, will inoculate a number of animals with the bacillus. That is the only infallible test." ' According to Dr. Williamson, president presi-dent of the board of bealth, the cordon around the skirts of Chinatown may continue for six weeks. "Other things being equal," said he, in the course of au interview today, "we might feel justified in raising the quarantine in six weeks that is to say, if the cleanliness of the district is such as to preclude the possibility of infection infec-tion remaining in .the various habitations habita-tions of the Chinese-" and others living there." - . ; ' '-'- : The doctor then referred to the deductions de-ductions of Dr. Shrady of New York, whom he described as "one of the most eminent specialists in the United States." Dr. Shrady has not only endorsed the action of the board of health, but has stated that every death reported by the board as having resulted from plague was accurately reported by the board's bacterologist. . Dr. O'Brien," who .has charge of the force inspecting, the Chinese district, was asked if any cases of resistance had been -.met with by the . inspectors on their-Tounds. -' - " : "Only a few," said he.- "The doors I were barricaded in some instances, but as a rule the-Chinese have offered no stubborn resistance: They are rather inclined to yield to the wishes of the inspectors in-spectors and in a-few days we expect that' all . trouble in this respect will have passed." : . The mail service in the Chinese quarter quar-ter will notvbe impaired. A fumigating station has been established and everything ev-erything passing out is treated. This morning there was great activity along the ropes that surrounded the quarantined quaran-tined district, and the Chinese had to resort to many devices in order to obtain ob-tain their supplies of food. As market time approached, numerous butcher-wagons butcher-wagons and delivery carts, from grocery gro-cery houses drew up' along the line, and Chinese, laden with pork and other eatables, were soon engaged in ferrying ferry-ing the supplies to the quarter. The Chinese merchants are preparing to institute legal proceedings against the board of health to compel that body to lift the embargo. The Chinese say they would be willing to aid the health officials if an epidemic existed, but, knowing that such is not the case, they refuse to submit to being shut Off from, the outside wirld without at least some show of resistance. |