Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-19
HEALTH BOARD MEETING


the following: President Wood DR.. |
Day, DR.. Emerson, +. M. Hatch and |
Geo. w. Smith as well as quite a num-
Der of visitors
The hrst business was the reading of |
the report of the Sanitary Committee |
composed Of u. II. Wodehouse, Walter |
Il. Wall and T. b. Edwards, on the |
sanitary condition of Kewalo, the dis |
trict inc.uJed between Punchbowl |
Queen, King and Sheridan streets and |
the ocean, containing 367 acres. After |
telling OF the many ponds with no out |
let's, the decaying vegetable and animal |
matter, the dumping in the district of |
all kinds OF foul material, the unsani-
tary privies, the particularly unsani-
tary conditions existing near the build
ings and the menace to the place to the
city at large, the committee makes the
following recommendation with ex-
plantations which will not be included
In this report of yesterdays meeting:
First-All ponds partially filled with
rubbish or the waters of which have
become foul from vegetable or animal
refuse.
Second-No building should be erect
ed or allowed to remain on land where
the ground water is within two feet of
| the surface.
Ground water can be varied with ref
erence to the surface of the ground in
two ways; by drainage, and by filling.
! Third-Ditches should be dug about
500 feet apart in existing or in propos-
ed streets for collecting surface water,
including that from above King street,
and as outlets for the numerous springs
and ponds in this district They should
have masonry floor and side walls. the
inner surface to be smooth, so as to be
easily cleaned. If any foul water is al
lowed to enter these bitches the
masonry side walls and floor should be
continued to the reef. They should
lead by the most direct way to the
ocean and, unless supplied with run
ming water, should be constructed so
the tide viii ebb and flow in them.
Fourth-All streets should drain in
to these bitches and from them should
rise by grade of not less than six
inches in one hundred feet
Fifth-There should be at least three
feet OF open space under all dwellings
IN which the air can fully circulate
Building laws should be enacted re-
curing an unobstructed open space
around each dwelling.
SiXth-It Is an imperative necessity
that sewers he constructed IN ri,
streets upon which buildings are iocat.
ed and they should he contracted for
at once so they NAV be COMPLETED nv
...e time the sewerage numning nl.nt
is in operation. Until such time ali
waste from faucets sbould be CON
Quoted into the main bitches Earth
closets only should be used
Seventh-l,o household waste or rub-
bish should be depositeo on tbis dis
trict or on any other land near inbabit-
ed dive, lings but II sbouId no taken
daily to sea and dumned nj least two
miles beyond the reef ar destroved Inv
cremation.
Eighth-A general system of streots
should be laid out and grades estah-
lished for the whole district.
Ninth-Owing to the natural unsani-
tary condition of this district daily in
spection should be made by n com.
petent Board of Health official.
The report was accepted and ordered
printed. The members of the Board
expresse, the opinion that the report
was an exceptionally good one.
Communications from the I. /. S. N.
Co. and Wilder Steamship Co. asking
that certain steamers be allowed to re-
main in the harbor under strict quar-
antine on account of the bad weather
outside and possibility of q storm
were read and the petitions granted
Another petition from the Wilder
Steamship Co. asking that they be al.
lowed to lay up the Kinau with the
captain, mate and quartermasters
aboard and to keep her a clean vessel
was granted. In response to still an.
other petition from the same compan,
: 1t was decided that sailors of the Kinal
may be transferred from one ship tC
another or landed in Honolulu, but
that none of these must be landed on
ports OF the other islands or Other
ports Of this island.
Pesident Wood stated that Attorne,