The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-09-28


coral ledge bordering it are covered
with mud rich in organic material.
The crabs, shrimps and small fish
which are present in myriads may
| have some office in preserving and
I carrying the germs of the disease.
meteorological experiments are
now being made with specimens of
water taken from various sources
Z known to be infected
The following are the recommended
! tions Of your committee:
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS.
l. That the local wash houses In in
I fected localities be torn down and the
/ ground beneath them disinfected and
! then allowed 10 dry thoroughly; that
/ ali persons be prohibited from wash
| ing any clothing or throwing any
! soiled water, discharge or other or
| ganic matter into any stream or pool
| of water; that all persons who wash
| their clothing at home be requested to
do so in dry, sunny spot, where there
| Is no drainage into any pool or stream
OF water.
,. That as far as practicable all I'M
necessary pools or ponds of stagnant
and semi-stagnant water be filled in,
beginning with the infected localities.
3. That the building of houses, wash
houses or closets over streams, ponds
or portions Of the harbor be prohibit
ed, and that all such houses now
standing be removed.
4. That all sewer pipes emptying
| into the harbor be abolished.
SPECIAL RECOMMENDATIONS.
,. In the Waipilopilo district we
recommend the immediate condemn
ing of the infected rice fields; the re-
enforcement of the bank dividing the
ditch from the uninfected rice fields;
measures to disinfect as thoroughly as
possible the infected rice fields and the
ditch; the filling up of all surface wells
In the district; the prevention as far
as is practicable of all use of this water
or the fish therein by any person for
any purpose for period of time to DE
determined by the Board of Health.
8. In the Kunawai district disinfec-
| ton seems to have been thorough, and
there is considerable doubt as TO the
infectious material having reached the
| taro patches. In case it has done so
| the committee are of the opinion that
| it has passed beyond control. We
| recommend keeping up rigid inspec-
| ton over this district and all others
| through which the water from this
district drains. If other cases of chol-
era occur lower down the question of
drying up the taro will have to be con-
sidered.
7. In the Puunui district we make
the same recommendations as in the
Kunawai district.
S. The NuuGnU stream Your
committee regards this locality, to-
gether with the harbor, to be by
far the most serious problem with
which the Board of Health has to
| deal. The lower portion of Pauoa
creek and the Nuuanu stream, from
the point where the Pauoa creek joins
it down to the sea, are unquestionably
infected, and all persons should be
absolutely prohibited from using any
water from these infected sources or
taking any fish from them until such
a time as nature has purified them. 1t
is also important that no discharges,
wash water, poi water, sewage or other
organic material should be thrown or
discharged into the stream for a like
period of time. Periodical flushing of
the stream should be continued for
several months-say, throughout the
rainy season.
We urge upon the Board of Health
the Importance of walling the stream
in upon both sides at the earliest pos
sible date as necessary health meas
ure.
THE HARBOR.
8. In view of the fact that there is
direct evidence that number of the
persons who were taken sick with
cholera during the late outbreak had
been eating raw fish or crabs from the
harbor, and further, that there is good
authority for the statement that har-
Dor water is particularly dangerous,
the cholera spirillum having been
found in at least one instance after
eighty one days in harbor water.
Your committee recon- mends that all
persons be prohibited from bathing in
the waters of the harbor or from tax
ing crabs, shrimps or fish of any kind
from the harbor or the coral reef Dor
dering it for period of three months
from the present time. Further, that
immediate steps be taken to improve
that portion of the harbor in the
neighboThood of the outlet of the
Nuuanu stream in such manner that
the present unsanitary condition shall
be removed.
10. We recommend the filling in of
the old fish pond across from the rail-
way depot.
G. B. WOOD, NJ. D.,