The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-05

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.
Is. No privy vault or cesspool shall
he 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 out on
one side beyond the superstructure in
such a manner as to allow the inspec-
ton and removal of the contents of
said cesspool or vault. The contents
of any privy vault or cesspoll 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 cesspool or vault within,
and shall be provided with a substan-
tian 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
snail 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 inhabitd
building the top of such vent pipes
shall extend above the roof of the high
est building within a distance of TWEEN
" 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 cesspoos or
plivy vaults shall be made with cast
iron, lead or vitrified, sewer pipe. All
urinals shall be connected to cesspOols,
pipes.
20. All cesspools shall be properly
cleaned out at once, and hereafter at
least once every four months, and
shall be thoroughly disinfected at
least once each week with such disin-
fectants as the Board of Health shall
direct; all such cleaning and disinfect-
ing to be at the expense of the owner
of the property.
81. All waste, soil. sewer or drain
pipes shall be of cast iron, lead or vi
trified clay. If of iron or lead the joints
shall be caulked with molten lead; IT,
of vitrif1ed clay, they shall have tight
cement joints all joints to be smooth
in the inside; open drains may be of
water tight masonry.
90. All cesspools or privy vaults
when abandoned and the use thereof
discontinued STILL ne Ut once epllfely
emptied of liquid and solid contents,
and shall be disinfected and filled with
earth, sand, ashes, or other such clean
materials; and the wooden curoing
about the same removed to a depth of
at least four feet below the surface of
the ground. In no case shall refuse,
garbage or any unclean material be
used in filling such privy vault or cess
pool.
90. All buildings and premises which
do not conform in every respect to tire
requirements of the foregoing reguIa-
lions are hereby declared nuisances
and dangerous to the public health.