The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-10

Health and approved as meeting the a
requirements of these regulations and b
of public health. t
IL. Any privy-vault, sink or cess r
pool, already constructed in Honolulu p
which has become a nuisance, or in any ;
way dangerous to life or detrimental :
TO health, shall be removed, recon
structed, or altered to meet the require
ments of these regulations and of pub
lie health. as directed by the Board of
Health or its Agent.
II. The Board of Health or its
gents may cause the emptying or dis
injecting OF any privy-vault, sink or
cesspool that may be deemed offensive.
or when required by public health, at
the expense of the owner or occupant
of the premises.
Is. Within thirty days after the |
public sewer system is put into opera
ton the use of privy vaults and cess
pools shall be entirely discontinued |
within the limits of such sewer system,
and all privies shall be removed, ex-
cept in so far as permission may be
granted by the Board of Health to
transform the same into approved wa
ter closets connected with the sewer
, system.
a. No privy vault or cesspool shall
be excavated or maintained within
ten feet from any dwelling-house or
inhabited building or cook-house or
place where cooking is done.
Is. No privy vault or cesspool shall
be maintained or excavated in any
place where for any reason free and
unimpeded access may not be had to
the same by an excavator cart.
= 16. No privy shall be built or main
tanned so as to entirely cover the cess
2 pool or vault under the same, but the
: cesspool or vault shall project out on
Il one side beyond the superstructure in
such manner as to allow the inspec-
J. ton and removal of the contents of
II said cesspool or vault. The contents
It of any privy vault or cesspool shall
l. not be allowed to rise within eighteen
1t inches of the top of the same or to such
a height as to flow out onto the surface
of the ground.
W IT, No cesspool or ,privy vault shall
. be built or maintained in any location
except the same shall have substan-
tial water-tight curb which shall re-
~ tain the earth without and the con-
be tents of the cesspool or vault within
ct and shall be provided with substan-
ed tial water-tight cover, having small
90 movable lid in the same to facilitate
m, examination and removal of the con
ad tents.
he 49, All cesspools or privy vault
CHI shall have four-inch cast-iron ven
nd mines with caulked lead Joints. or gal
vanized iron pipes, extending not les
than twelve feet into the open air, an
an If within twenty feet of an inhabite
'ar building the top of such vent pipe
On shall extend above the roof of the high
"u est building within distance of twer
ty feet of the same All such yer
Pipes shall run as direct as possible
- Every privy shall have proper seal
- with hinged lids to cover the openin
49, of same, which shall be kept close
when not in use.
10. All connections to cesspools
avs privy vaults shall be made with ca
be- iron, lead, or vitrified, sewer pipe. A
sed urinals shall be connected to cesspool
OPP vaults or sewer by trapped was
so pipes.
INTO 20. All cesspools shall be proper
1tn cleaned out at once, and hereafter
ienI least. once every four months, al
Aan- shall be thoroughly disinfected
least once each week with such dist
fectant as the Board of Health sh;
vi direct; all such cleaning and disinfet
Seu' ing to be at the expense of the own
A of the property.
81. All waste, soil, sewer or dra
- pipes shall be of cast iron, lead or v
,,+o rified clay. If of iron or lead the joiI
a+er shall be caulked with molten lead;
the of vitrifed clay, they shall have tie
hall cement joints, all joints to be smoC
, the in the inside; open drains may be
water tight masonry.
II be %. ALI cesspools or priyy vau
man when abandoned and the use Their
Iated discontinued shall be at once entir
ding emptied Of liquid and solid confer
sur and shall be disinfected and filed "
uiio- earth, sand, ashes, or other such cl
y 20 materials; and the wooden curb
about the same removed to depth
o.,tt at least four feet below the surfact
the ground. In no case shall ref
garbage or any unclean material
used in filling such privy vault or C
sroo1 pool.