The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-21

Still he was in the habit OF
working barefoot.
King Street Premises.
DR.. Wood reported having visited the |
premises on King street near the Wal
kiki turn, from which All Chong had |
been taken. He found the place in
a most filthy condition. Several small |
shacks adjoining Chinese store COM
prised the infected premises. In the |
middle of yard was an opium den. |
The place was a gambling resort and |
from what the doctor gathered from
people around, from twenty-five to for
ty persons were in the habit of living
Were there was apparently accommO-
dation for only eight or ten. Three of
the little, low, dirty dens were locked
and the doctor was forced to kick open
the doors to investigate things for him
self. Everybody had been removed
from the place with the exception of
two men who were missing.
Dr. Wood was of the opinion that the
inspectors of the district had not done
all that was necessary in inspecting the
place The sub-inspector ought to
have made it a point TO look in rooms
OF all such places on each round of
inspection. He thought that the in
spectors and sub-inspectors should be
instructed by the Citizens Sanitary
Committee to do this. OF course it was
not necessary to insist on a room to
room inspection in a house whose pro-
prietor could be relied upon to speak
the truth
All Hung Case.
DR.. Wood then went into the history
of the All Hung, Hotel stables case,
which is reported in another column.
There seemed to be some conflicting of
statements in regard to the movements
of All Hung. One report was to the
effect that he had never left the stables,
| except to go home and sleep; another
| that he had been absent from the place
four days
| The first case OF plague at the Hotel
| stables, which occurred January %,
was also spoken of at the meeting. No
suggestions in regard to the disposition
of the stables were made, however, and
the matter will come up at the meeting
this afternoon.
DIR. Wood reported having secured
seven out of the nine Asiatics employed
in the stables. Four worked at night
there and five in the day time. The
Chinaman who died had not slept on
| the place, as there are no sleeping
accommodations in the stables. 1t also
came up that All Hung, during the first
/ quarantine, was caught in Chinatown
and had gone back to the stables to
work after the quarantine was raised.
Y Rats by the Wholesale.
President Wood reported that the
houses ordered burned at Mondays
meeting had been destroyed. The
house where the Hawaiian-Chinese
woman died had been taken in charge
Immediately by the disinfecting corps;
then had sealed all cracks securely,
started the sulphur fumes and then left
the place. When the fire department
opened the place yesterday to start the
blaze, about fifty rats were discovered
in the rooms, supplied, most of them
by the sulphur fumes and few Of them
dead. The place was closed again with
the rats inside and the building burnt
rats and all.
DIR. Wood said there had been 10 i'm
mediate necessity for burning the South
Sea Island settlement, but that every
body in the two houses had moved their
personal goods and We're ready for the
fire. So the place was burned forth
with.
The President stated that the lates,
advices from Kahului were favorable
Last letters were dated February 18th
Pantheon Block
Mr.. G. D. Gear, representing property
interests in the Pantheon block, asked
the Board TO allow the New England
bakery and the Club stables to put theil
2 places in sanitary condition and opeI
} for business. Mr.. Gear said that any
: thing the Board desired would be done
in the case of the Club stables, even II
: laying a concrete floor.
DR.. Wood said that the Pantheon
D block was in one way ''the last strong
4 hold of the enemy" that no risk
0 whatever should be taken.
After considerable discussion on tn
e subject it was decided that specia
: meeting of the Board be called for /
i o'clock tomorrow morning, on tn
d Pantheon block grounds; that tn
Y block be thoroughly investigated by tn
= Board and that the matter be decide
t then.
= 1t was moved that Nuuanu street
l. opened to the public and that all tn
h merchants on that street, who had CON
70 piled with the sanitary regulations, b
allowed to open their stores for busi
ness. Carried. At o'clock this morn
ing the guards will be removed, wit
Y the exception of one-to look after tn
safes recovered from the Chinatow
fire.
u 4 motion to the effect that the OWL
- ers of the property on the corner {
= Beretania and Emma streets be not
u fed to comply with sanitary regula
~ tons numbers ?. 6. s and Il. was ais
sc carried.
i Hotel Stables Visited.
The Board then visited the Hot
a. stables. Each member turned up h
a trousers before he entered the prem
st ises. a thorough inspection Of II
of place was made and DR.. Wood, VII
Mt had visited the place several times b.
e. fore, informed the other members
~ the Board in regard to the history