Show PLAGUE IN CHINA Five Hundred and SeventySeven Deaths in Hong Kong in One aionth Filth in Houses Piled In Cart Loads Victoria B C June 2tThe steamer Sikh thirteen days from Yokohama has arrived and was subjected to a long quarantine quar-antine inspection All the effects of the oriental passengers were fumigated Advices report 577 deaths from the plague in Hong Kong from May 1 to June 7 230 being under treatment The total number of cases since the outbreak is about 1200 The Yokohama Herald of June 9 says regarding the steamer Peru The following was issued by the Pacific Pa-cific Mail Steamship company this morn Ing Owing to the steamship Peru being placed In quarantine In Nagasaki her departure de-parture is Indefinitely postponed It is expected that she will leave Nagasaki on June 14 The Peru should have sailed from Yo kohama June 12 but owing to a man having died on board en route from Hong Kong she was detained at Nagasaki for inspection but was expected to leave to day The man was attacked at 4 oclock In the morning and died during the night being burled at sea On Thursday another death took place and the vessel will now have to undergo a weeks quarantine Had the Hong Kong officials taken the slightest precaution to prevent the plague from spreading to the colony or to Isolate the first few cases which occurred it would have saved much mortality The new cases at Hong Kong average thirty per day with a fearful death rate The sanitary authorities attribute the outbreak not to bad sewerage but to filth in the houses which is piled there in cartloads cart-loads A British officer and three men are reported re-ported as attacked by the plague The authorities believe that they have got a grip on the plague In Canton though the plague claims less victims than for some time it Is causing much loss of life According to a Kobe paper although there had been signs of the plague diminishing dimin-ishing thirty new cases were reported and twentyfive deaths occurred on May 29 on the 30th of May there were thirty three new cases and twentyeight deaths and on June 1 fiftynine new cases and fiftyfour deaths |