The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-11-14
Interior Office, Nov. 18th, 1874.
R-goULAr1oNs OF THE BoARD OF HEALTH.

REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
1st. The Board of Health, or its Agent, will visit
the fish. vegetable and meat markets, or other places
where such articles are exposed for sale, at any time
it may deem fit, ordering said markets or places to be
properly cleaned, and any decayed animal or vegeta-
BILE matter to be Immediately removed therefrom.
2nd. No slaughter house will be allowed within
the boundaries of the city of Honolulu, or on any of
the public highways leading to it, or on the banks
of any river or stream where the water is used for
drinking or domestic purposes, or in any situation
not first approved by the Board of Health.
3rd. Ne person is allowed to dry or salt hides or
skins within the boundaries of the city of Honolulu.
or in any other place close to, or to windward of the
city, or in any place not first approved by the Board
of Health.
/. 4th. All privies, c~esspools, drains, sewers, ponds,
or other places containing stagnant water, manure,
or filth, found in a state prejudicial to the public
health, will be cleansed by the Board, or its Agents,
at the expense of the person or persons owning them
the said owners having been notified by the Board at
least six days before any active interference.
In future every privy is to be not less than twelve
feet deep and four feet square, and securely cased
and covered.
9th. The Board of Health or its agents will visit
all houses in which they may suspect there is an in
sufficient supply of fresh air for the support of health
to the inhabitants, whether from want Of proper VEN
tilation, overcrowding. or other causes, and will
order such houses to be properly ventilated, and take
such other measures as may appear to them to be
necessary.
9th. Any badly cured meat or other substances,
Citing a noxious or deleterious efiuyium, will be
Immediately removed at the expense of the owner
from the premises where they are stored, due notice
having 6rst been given by the Board of Health or its
Agents.
18th. No person shall keep swine within the bound
aries of the city Of Honolulu.
Sth. No person shall throw dead animals on any
Of the public streets or highaNER.
9Th. No interment shall be made within, or In the
immediate neighborhood Of any dwelling house; or
In any lot Of grouDS, not heretofore used for the
purpose of q cemetery. unless upon written sanction
of the Board of Health; and no grave shall - made
less than six feet in depth.
lO,h. A place on the Esplanade to be marked by
posts, placed by the Superintendent of Public Works,
is set apart for the deposit Of rubbish or filth to be
carried from the city.
IIth. All persons are hereby strictly prohibited
from depositing any rubbish or filth upon any street,
lane, wharf. or vacant lot, within the boundaries Of
the City of Honolulu.
18th. Landlords will be held responsible for the
proper ventilation of and oy~ercrowding of Chinese
habitations.
18th. Sailed or green hides shall not be stored
within the City limits
l4th. Any person violating any of the above regu-
lations is liable to be fined in q sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, as provided in Section 285 Of
the Civil Code.
Approved by the Board Of Health, this 9th day Of
November, 1874. CHAs. 7. QUICK, Sec'y.