The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-03
SANITATION AGAIN.

sanitary measures is not calculated
to produce much of what is entitled
polite literature. To persons of
fastidious tastes, the question of
sanitation is under the circumstances
entirely too suggestive of unpleasant
ness. 1t is all the more so when
truth and honesty demand that most
offensive conditions be exposed to
public view, that is where they are
not too well. known already. 1t is
bad enough for the decent citizen
whose nasal organs are not dead to
sensation, and whose stomach is not
lined with brass, to be obliged every
morning and evening to run the
gauntlet of odorous streets and
splashing slop buckets; but it would
almost seem to be adding insult to
injury, and, "piing on the agony"
when the very newspapers keep harp
ing day after day on phases of city
life that are abominable to see, and
exceedingly nasty to think about.
But, let any of our readers who are
afraid of being jaundiced with arti
cles on sanitation, remember that it
is not sanitation but the want of it
that is to blame for all the disagree
ableness of the discussion. Santa
ton is perfectly refined and refin-
ing subject of attention. 1t is the
absence of sanitation that must bear
the blame for the thousand smells
and the ten thousand stinks !" that
fill the air of many of our streets.
The absence of sanitary enterprise
is what produces sensations of dis
gust. Sanitary reform is an exceed
= ingly difficult problem in this city.
On many of our streets it is impossi-
BILE because unnecessary. In others,
it is so beset with peculiar difficulties
that it is impossible while nothing is
done to force it upon the inhabitants
whether they like it or not. What
such people like or dislike ought to
be the last thing to be considered.
1t is evident that they like their own
dirty ways, and dislike very much
to be interfered with in the enjoy
ment of their unmitigated beastli-
ness. Society knows no way of
dealing with such cases except by
the strong arm of legal suasion.
Moral suasion might keep pegging
away" at them until they were re-
formed, but the process would be
rather too slow to meet present
emergencies. To bring law to bear
on them, in mass, would be almost
too sudden mode of treatment. II
might be administered, for short
time, in homeopathic doses, and after
wards dispensed wholesale. A me-
dical man was once interviewed by
very sick man, but man who had
evidently been put together by nature
for superior strength and sound
rugged health. The physician
diagnosis of the case resulted in his
prescribing liberal doses of wate
and soap to be taken externally, but
in case too sudden glow of healtl
and vigor might alarm the patient
he recommended him to wash him
self, in sections, day by day, unit
he had cleared off the whole area o
his corporate surface. The medica
practitioner fully appreciated the fac
that nature is averse to revolutionar,
measures. He believed in the doc
trine of graduating progress and re
form with careful adaptation t.
the feelings and perhaps fancies o
his patients. 1t is to be hoped tina
the Board of Health will not be in
dcted for paralyzing any of the in
habitants of the pestilential rookerie
that abound in this city, with an,
sudden OF revolutionary measures
To flop down upon these people will
sweeping orders would create
panic big enough to produce apop
lexy or paralysis. What Clean VI