The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-17
Stables Regulations.

The following regulations in regard
to livery stables, submitted by DR.. Gar
vim, the executive officer of the Board
of Health, were read and adopted:
SANITARY REGULATIONS FOR LIv-
cry STABLES IA, IN THE DIS
TRlCT OF HONOLULU.
l. The floors of all stalls shall be made
water tight and may be made of the fol
lowing materials: Tongue and grooyed
planks, cement, asphaltum or broken cor
al rock covered to depth of six inches
with clay we'll tamped.
All stalls shall be constructed with
slant of at least three and one-haIf
inches from front to rear.
3 The water,ught flooring of stalls
may be covered with any suitable mate
rial, provided such material shall not be
allowed to become saturated with animal
discharges and remain until foul or in
sanitary.
4. Liquid discharges from animals
shall be conducted into a drain or ditch
TO a cesspool or sewer and said drain OF
ditch shall be flushed and kept clean.
D. Where washing is done, the floor
shall be of cement, graded so as to dis
charge through a trapped waste pipe into
a cesspool or sewer.
6. All manure from stables where ten
or more animals are kept shall be re-
moved at least twice in each week and
where there are a less number, once a
week.
Laundry at Iwilei.
I There is not a single clean OF
healthy spot in Iwilei," said DR.. Wood
f'and the laundry premises are the dir
test of the lot. The laundry is not q
thing for the Government to be proud
Of"
Below is given the report of the Elk
ecutive officer of the Board and the
City Sanitary officer-it is one report
on the government laundry at Iwilei
Upon this report the Board condemned
the premises as insanItary and a
menace to the public health and order
ed them to be vacated at once as they
are not fit for human habitation
The report is as follows:
Complying with the instructions of the
Board, we on Saturday visited the Gov
ernn ent wash-houses at Iwilei
The large yard where the clothes are
dried is covered for the most part with
old boards and underneath these lot
of filth has accumulated. All these
boards should be removed and the rub
bish and filth taken away and the whole
yard covered with coral rock. The yard
must stand there, and this is probably
why the boards have been put down.
There was hardly a room in the whole
laundry that could be called in clean
W
are old and the wood saturated with
filth and should be renewed When new
tubs are made it might be well to have
them lined with zinc or galvanized iron.
The dirty water runs into the bay and
stands near the shore, not being carried
off by the tide, and gives forth a foul
smell. This water should be carried out
by pipe line farther into the bay.
There is privy on the makai side
over the water. but the tide is not
enough TO carry. away. the discharges
a water-tight cesspool made in some To-
cation that could be reached by the ex-
cayator.
Several lean-tos have been erected in
side and outside of the enclosure, all OF
them contrary to Regulation Two, and
they should be removed. In a number OF
the rooms the lower portions of the
boards are decaying or saturated with
the filthy water, and should be renewed
The tables where they wash the clothes
are also saturated with the filthy water
and should be removed and renewed. We
would recommend that the occupants be
required to cover all these tables with
zinc or galvanized iron to prevent satur-
alton of the wood. 1t would also be well
to cover the walls with galvanized iron
from the floor up, say, about four feet
1t was decided that the report on the
Government laundry should be sent tc
the Minister of the Interior with the
recommendation that new quarters bf
provided for this establishment.
Slaughter Houses.
\ report on sites selected for new
slaughter houses was then read anC
President Wood was authorized to ar.
range for time to visit the proposed
sites and consider them.
This is the report:
on Friday, the 4th inst, we visited, il
cations selected by the metropolitan
Meat Company for their new slaughter
houses. The first is located just maka
of the railroad track and across the
track from the property of the Kalih
Fertilizer Works. This lot contains abou
is makai of the first one on ground thai
gradually slopes down to the new rail
read line. The third is on the makai side
of the new railroad line and extends tC
the sea.
The first location was considered to bt
too near. Where the third location is the
land is now very low, washed by the
tide water and would have to be filed in
The second location has a natural slope
to the land, which would insure gooC
drainage. The discharges from the ami
mails would drain makai and a DITCH
could be made on the makai side and the
discharges conveyed in a sewer to the
sea. This second location is bounded or
the Waikiki side by the Kalihi stream
on the makai side by the railroad anC
low land of the third location, and or
the Eva side by the railroad and ponC
owned by Mr.. $. NJ. Damon; so that i
is only upon the mauka side that the
place could he encroached upon.
In examining into these locations i
was felt that the following things would