The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
Total .S443,112.M
Increase Of the appropriation
fol- 1898 over that Of 1896
S5O,594.50.


The Advertiser admits that OF the
grand total of $S74,si1.5O, the sum of
1857 900 must be deducted for sewers.
This leaves for other purposes. includ-
ing salaries, the sum of s617, S41.5O plsss
the s25 900 appropriated the other day
by the Council OF State. The salary ac-
count alone, as we read the figures in
the official returns, foots up 1927 ,i36.oO.
Now we put the question: Is not a
sum in excess of quarter of a million
dollars. even If spread over four years,
CROUCH to pay the employees OF the
Beard of Health for notifying delin-
quent property owners to clean up at
their own expense? Has there not
been money enough and Is there not
money enough to enable the Board OF
Health to carry out all the obligations
that II accepted when It took office?
Let any man read the full text of the
law appearing in another column and
answer that question for himself.
DR.. Day. in his communication TO us
speaks of the unsatisfied need Of hav-
ms odorless excavators. No doubt the
reed is vital. But why should 1t be a
matter for legislative appropriation
when the law requires each property
owner to keep his premises clean at
his own expense and TO act upon the
demand of the Board Of Health? How
long does DR.. Day think 1t would be
after a few fines of a hundred dollars
each had been imposed on the owners
o. the city's plague spots before those
owners would invest in excavators on
their own account? And these would
have TO be odorless excavators too II
the Board SO demanded for an owner
would have no more right TO maintain
nuisance on wheels than one on a
wooden or stone foundation.
The Board Of Health in this matter
would have served itself best by ad-
hitting that 1t has been guilty OF con-
spicuous, inexcusable and long-con
tirued neglect and not tried to foist
the blame on the Legislature. DR.. Day
says-and there is no more intelligent
| and well-informed witness In the
Beard or out OF it-that the waste
water from sinks, lighthouses and taps
in Chinatown "is simply allowed to
flow into cesspools or onto the ground.
All Of the human excrement is dis
posed of in a similar manner, as we'll
az much OF the swim and garbage. The
place has been simply reeking with
filth and will be again In a short time
after this cleaning" The accusation is
not too strong but II 10 really an &C
crsation against the Board OF which
DR.. Day is q distinguished member. II
does not indict the Legislature, for
when that body empowered the Board
To compel sanitation at the cost of the
owner of infected places; when II pour
ed out money for health precautions
with prodigal hand, IL did It's full
duty and left its reputation free from
blame. The responsibility was then
with the Board OF Health. How the
burden has been borne let the reports
o. the Health Inspectors and OF eye
witnesses declare. Chinatown Is chok-
ed with dtsease breeding filth: indie
scribablo rubbish was burning In the
streets ~ late as yesterday; On Queen
street near River Is a fetid pond with
ht uses over and adjoining Il and into
which waste pipes are pouring every
da, "A pond which could easily be
drained into the bay for temporary re-
lieI and then filled up AZ the owner !
expense Has any move been made by
the Board to compel such action Not
: move. Instead We have Dr. Day.
assurance thar the places which hay,
been rocking with hl,h will be- 81
aIain In a short time after thls clean,
ms up
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