EARLIER ARRIVAL OF INFLUENZA.
(Hawaii invaded from Japan.)
On or about the 20th of August, 1889, recently arrived Japanese laborers had Influenza in a mild form.
This shipment on arrival from Japan, at Honolulu, were transferred immediately from the ocean steamer to the deck of an Inter-Island one, and were landed direct at Onomea and Hakalau plantations.
The type of Influenza was very mild, never infected other laborers; those who had the disease were segregated for a week.
At Onomea there were nine cases, at Hakalau eleven. (Author.)
The epidemic of 1890 left a trail of its own, somewhat different from the way it had acted as an epidemic; for almost a decade cases of the nervous type frequently kept cropping out; these were attended with Insomnia, great prostration, severe neuritis and facial neuralgia; frequent attacks and relapses in the intervals, of this Nervous form of Influenza, were responsible for the decease of Honolulu’s most prominent physician in the year of 1894.
The last, and fatal attack, the Doctor believed he acquired from visitors to Honolulu from Siberia, that country and European Russia being a continuous source of Endemic Influenza.
DENGUE.
Dengue in its initial stage or degree of progress in some respects resembles the Flu, and is often mistaken for it. Such was the case in the years 1900–1901 when imported laborers from Porto Rico, W. I. carried the Dengue or Breakbone fever with them.