The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-10
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be before the board in shape for OFF,
cial action
/ The report of the Insane Asylum
showed 131 inmates. an increase of 10
over last quarter.
Reports from the Board of Exami-
ners recommended that the Minister of
Interior be requested TO issue licenses
TO Drs. Bowman, Holland and Oko-
wara.
petition from citizens of Hilo ad-
dressed TO DR.. w. l.. Moore as agent
! of the Board of Health, was read re-
lating to the Hilo abattoir, asking that
the same be condemned as a nuisance
and ordered removed. The petition was
referred TO Sheriff Andrews with in
structions to report recommendation
for a new locality.
| A letter was received from DR.. J. III.
/ Thompson accepting the position of
Government physician at Waianae aft
! er August 18th.
! A letter from Rev J. II. Gulick ask
/ ing permission for Japanese minister
to visit the quarantine station the last
day or two before the expiration of the
quarantine period for the purpose of
giving spiritual and other advice to the
immigrants. The petition was prompt
terfering with all precedent in quaran-
tine matters. 1t was strongly op-
posed by Agent Reynolds and Super
intendent McVeigh
| The special report of George Man
son as agent for the Board of Health
at Waikiki on conditions in that dis
trict was next read, as follows:
To the President and Members of the
| Board of Health
Gentlemen: l beg leave to again
bring before your notice the serious
condition of affairs at the Waikiki
marshes. Sir ce my last report on the
matter, made some six months ago,
matters have gone from bad to worse.
The almost total absence of rain since
then has resulted in the drying up of
the ponds to such an extent that in
many of them there is but an inch or
two of water, barely covering a rot
ting, fostering mass of Shiny vegetation
from which foul odors arise at all
times, especially at night when the air
is still. This is particularly the case
on the lands owned by John Ena,
fronting on the Beach road, formerly
used as salt ponds. Complaints come
to me from people living in the vicin-
ity almost daily, saying that life is
made almost unbearable to them by the
foul odors constantly in the air, but as
the board is well aware, ! can do moth
ing in the matter. / submit to your
honorable board, however, whether the
time has not arrived when the board
should not exert it's powers and con-
denim the entire district as unsanitary
and menace to public health. In sup
port of this view l might add that
within the past two or three months
some half a dozen new cottages have
been built along the Waikiki road, and
now that a commencement has been
made more will soon follow. 1 have
personal knowledge of some who in
) tend to build in spite of existing con-
ditions, while others are only awaiting
the favorable action OF this board to
inaugurate still more extensive i'm
provements on their holdings. Does
the board intend that the same condi-
tions which now obtain at Kewalo
| shall be repeated in Waikiki?
! With regard to the hog nuisance:
This is separate and distinct nui-
sance, but none the less does it require
prompt attention. / have had a good
deal of trouble in inducing the Chi
nese to build the necessary troughs
and covered boxes for the disposal of
| the refuse from the pens, but can do
| little with the Japanese. They do not
seem to understand our ideas of sani-
tation, their necessity or their respon-
sibility for the general welfare. 1t is
| all very we'll to say, Why don't you
arrest these men and punish them?"
What good does it do. They hire law
| yers to defend them, or the lessons do
for them There is so much red tape
to be gone through, SO many notices
h
worked up; the witnesses are baited
and badgered in the courts to such an
extent that they would rather stay
home and suffer than assist the Off
GERS of the law. Even if a conviction
could be obtained in the lower courts.
an appeal follows, necessitating fur
ther attendance of witnesses, etc.,
only to result in the final dismissal of
the case because the officials have 9TH
er and more important cases to attend
to- If the Board Of Health officers
could be given power to attend to
these cases in summary manner, as
is done in other countries, these nui-
sances could be abated in short order.
Take my own case as an example of
present conditions. When the lots on
which we built were placed on the mar
ket there were no hog-pens within
several hundred yards. There are now
seven families living within stones
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