The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-30

for the Board of Health to prove tha
the property it seeks 10 condemn is in
sanitary. but the proof should res
: with the owner of the property TO show
that he is not maintaining a nuisance
If the Board has not sufficient funds
available, we believe the Council oil
State should at once provide the
means to enable the Board of Health
to supply machinery or the ways and
means of coping not only with the
present danger but its re-occurrence
However. the owners and controllers
Of the property should be forced, as far
as possible, to pay for the work of put
ting their property in a proper san
itary condition.
Recommendation.
| !. We recommend sending at once
for a skilled sanitary engineer, to be
a member of the Board of Health and
to have the authority of enforcing it's
regulations. and with sufficient COM
pensatiOn to secure an expert who can
| devote his entire time to the work, and
that he be given ample assistance. He
should also have under his control the
supervision of plumbing and the flush
| ing of sewers.
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purchase or building of not less than
| six eXcavators to operate in Chinatown
| only until all cesspools are abandoned.
They should be supplied with sufficient
piping 10 reach any portion of even
! the largest blocks, and every cesspool
should be Immediately pumped dry at
the cost of the property-owners.
3. We recommend that the bed of
PauOa stream, from Vineyard street
bridge to Nuuanu stream, be f1Oored
with masonry, combining the water to
a small center channel
A. We recommend that all land
within this district be graded or
drained to prevent surface water stand
ing upon it, and that all lands shall be
filled with clean earth to such depth
that the surface Of the ground shall be
at least eiehteen inches above ground
water level.
5. We recommend the immediate
building of a garbage crematory for the
destruction of all refuse, and the in
discriminate depositing upon any land
of refuse and garbage be absolutely
prohibited.
g. We recommend the building of
market centrally located in Chinatown |
where fresh meat poultry, vegetables |
and poi can be sold under proper con- |
ditiOns, and the indiscriminate sale of |
these commodities under present con- |
ditiOns be discontinued; also that the !
keeping of poultry and the manufac- |
tire of poi be prohibited within this |
district.
Z. We recommend the immediate |
Of the sewers to include all |
districts of the city
S. We recommend that streets and |
alleys be cut through the different
blocks substantially as shown on the
maps as soon as the
same can be legally done at the ex-
pense of the property-holders which
the Improvement affects.
g. We recommend the publishing
and Immediate enforcement of the at
tached regulations, which we believe
to be of vital Importance to a proper
sanitary condition, and the enforce
ment of which admits Of no delay for
which purpose the Board should con-
-inue the present subdivision of the
district, employ inspectors for each
subdivision whose duty it shall be to
enforce these regulations,
and who shall be maintained until the
changes contemplated have been
made.
10 We recommend the drafting Of
statute covering building and plumb
ng regulations; also the remodeling
If the present law giving the Board Of
Health greater power. 1t should have
he authority after reasonable notice
0 abate any nuisance, to assess the
Ost against the property and to sell |
of the property to collect the
anne Also that q statute he submit
ed to the next Legislature providing
or local Improvement assessments.
The large interests at stake are rec
gnized by all; the future of our city
as never been brighter; our pOpula-
ion is increasing tremendously, and
ur commerce should be larger than
oss caused by quarantine regulations,
his is the turning point, and now is
he time for determined action. With
ur large ocean trade We shall always
e exposed to contagion, and it will be
economy to spend a large sum annual
Y in keeping the city in condition 70
epel disease, and to prevent It's secur-
1g a foothold rather than undergo the
0ss caused by quarantine regulations,
he interruption Of trade, and the pre- 0
ention of the free flow Of commodi-
les, which is essential 10 the life OF
Ommerce as we'll as the very existence 2
f a community. )
We have sought to make recommen-
ations that can at once be put into t
Deration: the enforcement Of which
yill require the immediate removal of
many insanitary buildings as well as
he innumerable sheds and outhOuses