Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22
DANGER OF PESTILENCE.
THE OLD FIsHmARKET LOT A
GARBAGE REPOSITORY.
The Locality of King street and the
Nuuanu Stream n PestiIence-
Breeding Hole.

look at the so-called improvements
on the waterfront and this is what
he saw. His Investigations COM
menced at the site of the old fish
market and continued along the
waterfront to the bridge near st.
Louis College.
The present condition of the
old fishmarket lot is a disgrace to
everyone who has had the hand
ling Of it since the buildings wcIe
destroyed in the cholera times.
1t has simply been con-
verted into garbage repository
for waterfront refuse, and if
possible has become a worse
menace to the public health of
the city than if the buildings had
still been used for the sale of fish.
Who is responsible for this state
of affairs and why is not the lot
either fenced in or graded up to
the level OF the street instead of
being converted into garbage
heapY
Continuing along the waterfront
the reporter noticed that the new
roadway from the old market to
the King street bridge has been
partly filed in with debris from
the dredger, which is all very well
as far as it goes, but loaded
wagon cannot pass over it and
there are no signs of travel over
it except a well-worn footpath. A
very little more work put on this
stretch OF road would have COM
pleted it so that it could be used
for the purposes intended. The
building of this road has
enclosed the land lying between
it and King street and thereby
formed o regular bog of mud.
The tide rises and falls inside this
bog as it used to before the en-
bankment was thrown up, but the
water no longer runs off with the
falling of the tide. Some of it
seeps back again through mud but
much Of it Is retained on the sur
face. AS this portion of the water
front referred to is covered with
houses the condition of the in
mates should be a matter of con-
Germ to the sanitary authorities,
but they seem to have forgotten
all about such matters now that
the epidemic of cholera is over.
Many of the tenants have moved
out but there are plenty left, and
during the short stay of the writer
on the spot he saw enough to con-
vince him that all the Stops, kit
chen refuse and worse, was being
thrown out of doors just
as it used TO be before the cholera.
With only three or four warm
days so far this season, the stencil
arising from this place was some
thing fearful ana it can plain
be smelled long way Off. The
whole inclosure made by King
street, Maunakea and the water
front is nothing but a pestilence-
breeding hole and a constant
menace to the health of those
living in the vicinity and in fact
to the whole city. Typhoid fever
turks in every nook and Granny
of it and malarial diseases would
revel at will in its reeking recep-
tacles OF slime and filth. Cholera
has already made its home there
and will do so again unless some
thing is zone. Let the Board of
Health pay visit to this locality
in body some very hot day and
see how they would like to live in
such a presidential locality.
On the upper side of King
street the same condition of affairs
obtains. There is an embank-
ment partly made and partly fill
ed in, but behind that the con-
dition OF affairs is even worse
than before the cholera.
The writer was told there were
only four or five men 'tinkering''
on this great public improvement,
and tinkering is just the word to
apply to what has been done so
far, and that there was no money
to continue the work. What has
money to do with a matter that is
Of vital importance to the health
Of the community ? Money WAS
procured for the suppression OF
the cholera and money can be pro-
cured again for necessary santa
ny improvements if the Board
of Health will take hold Of the
matter and insist on the work be-
inc done.