The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29


of public health.
/ II. Any privy-vault. sink or cess
\ pool, already constructed in Honolulu
/ which has become a nuisance, or in any
way dangerous 70 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 it's Agent.
II. The Board Of Health or its
Agents may cause the emptying or dis
injecting Of any privy-vault, sink or
cesspool that may be deemed offensive.
or when required b. 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 privles 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.
IA. 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.
10. 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
pool or vault under the same, but the
cesspool or vault shall project QUE on
one side beyond the superstructure in
such manner as to allow the inspec-
ton and removal of the contents of
said cesspool or vault. The contents
of any privy vault or cesspool shall
not be allowed to rise within eighteen
inches of the top of the same or to such
a height as to flow out onto the surface
of the ground.
II. No cesspool or privy vault shall
be built or maintained in any location
except the same shall have a substan-
tial water-tight curb which shall re-
tain the earth without and the con-
tents of the cesspcol or vault within, !
and shall be provided with a substan- |
t:al water-tight cover having a small. |
movable lid in the same to facilitate /
examination and removal of the con-
tents.
Is. All cesspools or privy vaults
shall have four-inch cast-iron vent
pipes with caulked lead joints, or gall
vanized iron pipes, extending not less
than twelve feet into the open air, and
if within twenty feet of an inhabited
building the top Of such vent pipes
shall extend above the roof of the high
est building within a distance of TWEEN
ty feet of the same. All such vent
Pipes shall run as direct as possible.
Every privy shall have proper seats
with hinged lids to cover the opening
Of same, which shall be kept closed
when not in use.
10. All connections to cesspoOls or
Drivy vaults shall be made with cast
ron, lead, or vitrified, sewer pipe. All
lrinals shall be connected to cesspools,
vaults or sewer by trapped waste (
pipes.
20. All cesspools shall be properly
cleaned out at once, and hereafter at
east once every four months, and
shall be thoroughly disinfected at /
east once each week with such disin- /
ectant as the Board of Health shall
iirect; all such cleaning and disinfect- i
ng to be at the expense of the owner t
If the property. d
p. All waste, soil, sewer or drain |
pipes shall be of cast iron, lead or Wit :
'ified clay. If of iron or lead the joints
shall be caulked with molten lead; if 1
If vitrifed clay, they shall have tight {
cement joints, all joints to be smooth +
n the inside; open drains may be of
water tight masonry. y
%. All cesspools or privy vaults +
when abandoned and the use thereof
discontinued shall be at once entirely =
'mptied of liquid and solid contents, {
md shall be disinfected and filled with
.arth, sand, ashes, or other such clean
Materials; and the wooden curbing
bout the same removed to depth of =
It least four feet below the surface of T
he ground. In no case shall refuse, c
garbage or any unclean material be
sed in filing such privy vault or cess L
iool. =
%. All buildings and premises which
% not conform in every respect to the
equirements of the foregoing regula-