The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-14

shall make such regulations Ic9FS~ +
sources of flth. and causes Of sickness
within the respective districts Of the kInsdom'i
and on the board of any vessels, as it shall Judge
for the public health and safety.
The Tenth Section sets forth that " Whenever
any sucb nuisance. source Of fifth, or eauseI
lof sickness shall be found on private proFersy,'
the board of health or any health agent shall
order the owner or occupant thereof, at his own
|exuense, to remove the same within forty-eignt
hours and if the over or occupant shall negec1l
to do so, he shall be fined in a sum not exceed
ing one hundred dollars" Now, it seems 70
US that sufficient authority is hereby placed IN
the hands Of the Board Of Health, to order a
general inspection by one of their health agents
or other duly authorised person, OF the closets
of this city and, in case OF the condltion Oh
the said - closets" being found TO be such as
to warrant the apprehension of their being a
Is. cause of sickness" to the community, that
the Board has powers to oblige their owners
to remove their contents, according to the pro-
4 visions of the code. We quote these author
tiles and make these remarks, because we be-
lieve that an impression seems to prevail here
that some special legislation is requisite, in
+" OEutE . CIlDECE II ACNIAbb O1N
Of the households of the city. We are OF opinion
that the Board of Health is at present sufficient
ly empowered to take prompt action IN this
matter, of such paramount Importance from a
A suggestion has been made to US, on thi:
subject. to which we have unayoidably referred
SO frequently of late. 1t is that q good plan
for disposing of the ''nightsoil' of the city would
II L. 90 hn-a n lor.o ~,-S - uNnvr rnoIa NTH a
movable bottom, into which the 80 night-soil'
could be brought in carts from the d" closets. >
The punt, being placed beside the end of the
4 esplanade when filed, could be towed out tc
sea by the Steam-tug, and when at a consider
able distance beyond the reef, and in deep water
its contents could be emptied. by the opening
of the false bottom, into the ocean. This plan
would have the advantage of removing The
IS nightsoil' most efectually and completely gu
of the way of human beings, and precluding
all possibility of its tainting the air. 1t would
seem much preferable to our proposed plan OIL
burying the "nightsoil" in pits. The difficult
ties of the removed have first to be settled. The
operation is SO disgusting that, if sewerage were
at all practicable, it would always be the mos;
desirable plan. As we have already remarked,
II IneES III GWO pOHlS u Ue COuSlueTeu. ISL.
Can sewers be made to carry off the fecal matter
of our '' closets to the sea? And, il not prac-
ticable, How should the night-soil of the
g closets" be disposed of? 1t can not be left
in statu quo without the certainty of a terrible
p~estilence overtaking the city. Now, the latest
suggestion made to US, is, as we explained above,
to carry it out to sea. And we think that this
would be an improvement on our proposed plan
of the pits. Meanwhile, We solemnly hope the
8 plague will not catch US, before we have
fixed on some mode of disposing of our filth.
It caught Buenos Ayres, in the Filth Pesti.
lence'' of 1872, and we humbly hope and trust
in God that we shall never again witness such
Ia scene of desolation and death. The putrid
bodies of the dead were then taken out daily
in hundreds on the Z" Tren de los muertOs.'
THE train of the deadly the railway to the
RecOhta cemetery, there to be buried in bitches
S-almost as we propose to bury our " night
soil p And the nourners, where were they
The RECENT return to this city of the Hawaiian
Royal Commissioner appointed under the " Act
to develope the resources of the Kingdom from