The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-10
FALLS IN LINE
Chamber of Commerce
Takes Action.
Recommends Resolutions to Board o.
Heaith--Deiegates Appointed to
Confer With Executive.

The Chamber OF Commerce held
special meeting at o'clock yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of consider
ing certain proposals submitted by a
committee from the Medical Associa-
ton of Hawaii
President r. Rain Walker occupied
the chair, and read the resolutions of
the committee, which were published
in yesterdays Advertiser. He stated
that one of the objects of the present
meeting was to appoint delegation to
confer with a like committee from the
Planters Association and the Execu-
tive Council at o'clock that afternoon.
/ Mr.. G. NJ. Cooke thought attention
should be given to the subject of pro-
viding lOdging-places for those people
released from the detention camps.
They would naturally make for the
homes of their friends, and in a very
short time conditions outside would
equal the Chinatown locality.
Mr.. Pinkham drew attention to a
building in course of erection on King
street without regard to sanitation,
and suggested that the attention of the
Board of Health be directed TO this
structure. He considered that radical
measures should be adopted not only
in Chinatown but in outside districts.
With regard to houses like that on
King street, he considered that build
ing permits should not be granted for
structures with balconies, often used
as rooms. overhanging the public
roads, and that the structure in ques-
ton should be raised at least eighteen
inches and moved back to the street
line.
Mr.. Pinkham also drew attention to
the common practice of using one
building as store and domicile and
considered the practice insanitary and
a menace to public health. He con-
sidered many places outside the quar-
antined district we're as filthy, and the
application of military law quite as
iustifiable, as any in Chinatown.
Mr.. Atherton suggested that if the
meeting were to discuss every point of
merit in the present trouble the day
would be spent without anything hav-
/ ing been accomplished. He would
suggest that the meeting confine itself
to a consideration of the resolutions
before them at the present time, and
make any further discussion the sub
ject of a future meeting.
One clause in the resolution. in his
opinion, was deserving of special argu-
ment-that of leaving the land unoccu-
pied for twelve months after the build
/ ing which had stood upon it had been
burned. He considered the question
I too large for them to answer on the
spot, involving as it did the matter of
compensation to the owners of the
property. If the Medical Association
can assure the public that such a step
/ is necessary for the health of the COM
munity, it would be another matter. At
present children are allowed TO wander
upon the debris of previous fires, and
il seemed to him that this was as good
a way to spread the disease as could
be discovered. The isolation of the for
hidden area would also involve con-
siderable expenditure in the way of
fences.
Mr.. Gear spoke of the danger to be
apprehended from overcrowding lodg-
/ lighthouses in outside districts, as soon
as the present inhabitants of the quar-
antine camps were released. Many of
the Japanese and Chinese quarters, es-
pecially at Makiki, were overcrowded,
I
pected. as it was not to be supposed
that the people would content them
selves in the buildings provided by the
Government. He considered these
7 lOdging-houses worthy of continued at
tentiOn by the Board.
Mr.. Swanzy said he was of the opin-
ion that a law regulating the number
of persons in each clearinghouse in the
city was in existence. He considered
that law should be enforced to it's full
est extent and any offender severely
punished.
Mr.. Giffard considered the most dras-
tic measures should be pursued. He
cited the manner of procedure in
/ Hongkong in dealing with infected
houses, and urged the meeting not TO
act too hastily in regard to land lying
. idle.
/ Ii was finally moved by Mr. Ather-
ton, seconded by Mr.. Cooke and car
ried unanimously:
That the resolutions submitted by
the Medical Association. with the ex-
ception OF Clause ., be adopted and
that the Board of Health be recon-
mended to carry them out as soon as
possible, and that with regard to
Clause this meeting is not prepared
to offer an opinion"
Mr.. Gear then moved THAT the
Board Of Health be recommended to is
sue regulations regarding the amount
of air space in cubic feet per inhabit-
ant and the sanitary conditions to be
observed in all new buildings to be
erected as domiciles in the judicial dis
trict of Honolulu"
Mr.. Bishop seconded the motion
which was also carried unanimously.
It was resolved that the president
appoint a delegation with himself as
chairman, to meet the Executive Coun-
ell at 3 o'clock.
The following gentlemen were there
upon appointed: T. r. Walker. w. F.
Allen. c. F. Wight. r. +. LANCE. W. w.
Hall, J. G. ROthwell. J. G. Spencer. 4.
V. Gear, +. w. McChesney. I. Ruben
stein, T. ]. King F. Lewis. VI. Phillips.
and p. Muhlendorf. and it was ex-
planned that names were omitted of
members of the Planters Association
who would attend the conference on
behalf of that body.