The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-07
Report Of Committee to Special
Meeting of Health Board.
SALOON RESTRICTIONS RE- eCINDED.
City Divided into Three Inspection Dis
tricts-HeaIth Committee Named for
Hama District-Nuuanu Stream to be
Dredged-LiceDse for Russian Doctol p

A special meeting of the Board
of Health was held Saturday to
hear the report Of the commit
tee appointed to consider the mat
ter of freight shipments to the
other islands as suggested by reso-
lutions from the Chamber of Com
merce.
The report was signed by DR..
F. r. Day, DR.. J. K. Smith, Theo.
F. Lansing, and is as follows:
Shipments to be permitted of all
goods from American, European and
Australian ports, same being new and
in merchantable condition, to be
shipped in following manner.
AS style of packing readily discloses
the contents, we believe the following
named articles can be shipped
WITHOUT PERMITS.
Lime, plaster, cement, oils in bar
rels and drums, iron and steel (bars
and bundles), iron pipe, powder, ma
chlnery, fence wire, corrugated iron,
fertilizer, doors and windows, rope in
coils, sewing machines, plows, agri-
cultural implements, stoves, building
brick, fire brick, carriages anu
wagons, -four, grain, hay, lumber,
bales), coal Gn bulk), ice (unpacked).
ON SPECIAL PERMITS.
Coal in bags, salt Imported or made
and stored here prior to cholera out
break, medical supplies, aerated
waters (of local manufacturer.
All other goods packed as heretofore
determined by the Board, under sup
ervislon Of inspectors.
Shipments to be permitted of all
goods from ports in Japan and China,
excepting all liquors, groceries, provi-
sions or other articles of food, unless
herein enumerated, viz: Beans
<dried) usually packed in so or 100
pound bags, bean stick, bamboo
sprouts hermetically sealed in 2-pound
cans, ginger preserved in jars, peanut
oil, samshu, shrimps, dried Califor-
MIA, only vermicelli, tea, all to be pack
ed under supervision of inspectors. No
goods to be allowed shipment except
from duly licensed firms.
NOT TO BE ALLOWED.
No second hand clothing, bedding, |
furniture, trunks or other personal |
effects to be allowed shipment.
Board of Health to have inspectors |
at receiving wbarves to supervise |
freight offered.
AS inspectors seal we submit |
label, the blank to be filled out with |
ture; and same to be pasted on every |
package as soon as ready for ship |
ment.
The matters Of guards and in-
spections were next brought up for !
consideration. 1t was agreed to |
divide the city into three inspec-
ton districts, as follows:
/. All that portion west of the |
Nuuanu stream.
2. All that portion between Nuu-
anu stream and a line drawn from |
the sea through Alakea street,
Emma street and Punchbowl street |
to Pauoa, this to include Pauoa.
3. All that portion east Of the
second district.
In this agreement it was decided |
that the matter of guarding the
valleys should be continued.
AS the necessity for employing a
large number of inspectors had
ceased, the Board ordered that the |
services Of the twenty-one inspect
ors be dispensed with, and three
paid inspectors employed to do the
required work at $75 per month
each.
The guards at Kaukini street
bridges were ordered taken of.
The request Of liquor dealers, to
be allowed to open at night, was
granted. The regulations requir-
ing the closing Of saloons at night
were ordered rescinded, action to
take effect Monday.
The request of the Hama citizens,
that a separate health committee
be appointed for their district, was
granted, and Dr.. McGettigan,
Messrs. Iosepa, Gjerdrum, o.
Unna. Gravemeyer, y. Omsted and
j. K. Hanuna were appointed.
The report Of the committee on
contaminated soil was adopted.
The application Of DR.. Kryshto-
fovich, a recent arrival from Rus
sia, for a license to practice was
Letters recommending
the issuing of license to him were