The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-09-02
SITUATION AT SHUTDOWN.


Total number of cases reported-2O.
Total number OF deaths-l7.
There were three deaths yesterday.
Kahana, q native; died at m.;
was sick but one hour; case not re-
ported at health Office until 4 80
O'Clock.
Friday at p. m ; died at II 20 D. nj.
p. M.
A fresh case was reported at sos
p. m.; a native named Kainoa was
attacked and carried to the hospital.
He resided at Ktkaulia near Hotel
street, in the vicinity of Smiths
bridge. Raw fish is the cause OF his
trouble.
Three cases were in the hospital.
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING.
The Board of Health held a meeting
yesterday afternoon to discuss various
matters in connection with the pres
ent sanitary condition of the city.
President Smith stated he was in
formed that local Hawaiian publi-
cation called "Aloha Aina," had ad-
vised it's readers not to report any
cholera cases. A file of the paper was
sent for, but nothing OF the nature
complained of, could be found and the
matter was deferred for the present.
Mr.. Smith also stated that the
houses on Queen street that had been
under quarantine for over a week
had been thoroughly disinfected and
as no disease had broken out in that
neighborhood for the time mentioned,
he thought the quarantine should be
raised if the doctors of the Board ap-
proved. Doctors Howard and Wood
said it was safe, so the quarantine was
lifted.
The same action was taken in re-
gard to the premises near st. Louis
College, another house in which
case was found. The place had been
thoroughly fumigated and the mat
ting taken up and burned.
DR.. Myers reported that the patient
at Iwilei had entirely recovered and
that the district was in a good sani-
tary condition. 1t was decided to
raise the quarantine tomorrow.
President Smith spoke of the district
of Kapookola; the families living in
the two quarantined houses had been
sent to the station the residents in
other houses were ordered to vacate.
He stated that the Executive Council
held meeting and decided to open a
street from Queen street to King street
bridge; to Smiths bridge, and pos
sibly as far as Vineyard street; the
street to be 80 or go feet wide. This
would do away with the shanties that
border on the east side of the NuuanU
stream.
DR.. Wood said that the stream
should be walled, and the land on the
Eva side ought to be filled in and
used for business purposes. The
country in that vicinity was a dan
frnn0 70 fr1f NJ
view, and something must be done to
place it in better condition.
DIR. Emerson and T. +. Lansing, q
committee, reported on the condition
of the buildings that border on the
stream. They found them in bad con-
dition; many were built over the
banks and all drainage emptied into
the stream. They recommended that
the buildings be removed at once.
President Smith spoke of the bad
condition of the harbor, saying that
in some places there were banks of
Ooze and filth furnishing fertile bed
for germs. They had stopped the
dredger in order to prevent natives
picking among the refuse that was
thrown up.
DR.. Howard spoke of the necessity
of having the Nuuanu stream thor
oughly disinfected. 1t was done in
England and other European cOuD-
tries under the same conditions. The
Board thought it a good suggestion
and Drs. Day and Howard were ap-
pointed a committee to look after the
matter. The stream will be disin-
fected from School street down to the
harbOr.
After much discussion the following
resolution was adopted:
Whereas In the opinion of the
Board of Health, all the buildings or
structures abutting on or draining in
the Nuuanu stream or haIhOr, from