Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-07-25
SANITARY WORK Of
0TY'S INSPECTORS
Report on What Was
Done During Month
Of June.
PEOPLE Who PROMISED
TO HELP IN WORK
Ed. ToWse Believes Ordinances II
Enforced, Should Be Sufficient
to Protect Honolulu
Against NuisanceS.

The following report by Ed. Towse,
late Chief Of Inspectors, under the
Board of Health, was handed in at the
end of last month and was read at the
first meeting of the Board during the
present month:
c. b. Wood, NJ. D.,
President Board of Health,
SIR
beg herewith to present summary
of the work of inspection as carried
en- during the month of June.
Nuisances reported .............. 1923
Remedied during the month .... 675
misunderstanding, disinfecting,
new cesspols, vaults, etc. .......
Restaurants and lodging houses
examined for licenses ...... 81
Forty-eight hour notices eserved "
Prosecutions ................. l
The result of this prosecution was
conviction. During the month | have
made 1t particular business to look
most carefully after tenement premises
| and to interview the landlords of the
same. Among those who have thus
| been seen and who express Willingness
to aid the Board in its work of keep
ing the city clean are:
Cross Bros, who have about 200
rooms.
John Magoon, who has 20 cottages.
A. Frank Cooke, who has II cottages.
John Emmeluth, who has 10 cottages.
Fred Harrison, who has cottages.
DIR. l.. +. Alvarez, who has tenement
with 16 rooms.
l.. Ahlo, twelve rooms.
J. A. Gilman, large tenement house.
All Heong, about 600 rooms.
Tomas, 81 rooms.
About fifteen others with from two
to eight cottages OF > to 30 rooms.
The Gilman tenement is model
Some of the other roomins houses are
good, but with imperfect drainage
that, with Indifference or carelessness
and ignorance of tenants, creates flag
rant nuisances. The cottage groups
in Kewalo are being provided with
earth closets after the pattern devise,
ty John Magoon. Cross Bros. arr
adopting sanitary furnishings, but ar
! slow In placing the same.
MarstonC ampbell, Esq, has been o
great assistance to the Board In under
taking street cleaning In outlying 10
calities, especially in Cook street, Ike
= walo.
All OF that Kewalo territory In tn
, vicinity of the government dumping
l.. ground, now thickly populated is in bu
I a trifle better sanitary condition tina
when judged by the Board, more thai
three years ago, to be unfit for huma
habitation. The filling has been yer
slight and the land is so low that regu
lgtions producing good results In othe
parts of town are Ineffective here-nC
], tably the running of roof drainage int
|, the street.
k The campaign against lean-tos
X progressing satisfactorily. The case {
u the month was the Myrtle blocL o
q Hotel street where nothing could b
Q done through landlord or agent, bt
@ where "iS-hour notices" set the tenant
J" at work.
y The neighbOrhoOd of the corner ,
IL Liliha and King streets is called Ne
e Chinatown" but there are score an
10 more of other considerable settlement
y OF the same sort scattered all over Il
10 city. The so-called new Chinatown
lie Is inspected carefully every day and
t. clearly condition forced. 1t Is We
,e known, of course, that the new Chin
IL town is practically in a depression
10 land, whereas the old Chinatown W
10 on an elevation.
ie hav emo suggestions to make
Ia recommendations to offer, believil
le that our ordinances are sufficient
lie they are enforced by thorough inspe
!" ton and correction OF faulty CONF
I, tons.
lie Very respectfully,
lie (Slgned.) ED ToWsE
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