The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-31


Of public health.
II. Any privy-vault, sink or cess
pool. already constructed in Honolulu
which has become a nuisance. or in any
way dangerous TO life or detrimental
to health, shall be removed, recon
structed. or altered to meet the require
ments of these regulations and of pub
lie health. as directed by the Board of
Health or its Agent.
u. The Board of Health or its
Agents may cause the emptying or dis
injecting of any privy-vault, sink or
cesspool that may be deemed offensive,
or when required by public health, at
/ the expense of the owner or occupant
of the premises.
| 10. Within thirty days after the
public sewer system is put into opera
| ton the use of privy vaults and cess
pools shall be entirely discontinued
within the limits of such sewer system,
and all privies shall be removed, ex-
/ cept in so far as permission may be
granted by the Board of Health TO
! transform the same into approved wa
ter closets connected with the sewer
system.
IA. No privy vault or cesspool shall
be excavated or maintained within
ten feet from any dwelling-house or
inhabited building or cook-house or
place where cooking is done.
10. No privy vault or cesspool shall
be maintained or excavated in any
place where for any reason free and
unimpeded access may not be had to
the same by an excavatoT cart.
10. No privy shall be built or main
tanned so as to entirely cover the cess
pool or vault under the same, but the
cesspool or vault shall project ouC on
one side beyond the superstructure in
such a manner as to allow the inspec-
ton and removal of the contents of
said cesspool or vault. The contents
of any privy vault or cesspool shall
not be allowed to rise within eighteen
inches of the top of the same or to such
a height as to flow out onto the surface
of the ground.
IL. No cesspool or privy vault shall
be built or maintained in any location
except the same shall have a substan-
tial water-tight curb which shall re-
tain the earth without and the con-
tents of the cesspcol or vault within,
and shall be provided with a substan-
tial water-tight cover, having a small,
movable lid in the same to facilitate
examination and removal of the con-
tents.
is. All cesspools or privy vaults
shall haze four-inch cast-iron vent
pipes with caulked lead joints, or gall
vanized iron pipes, extending not less
than twelve feet into the open air, and
II within twenty feet of an inhabited
building the top of such vent pipes
shall extend above the roof of the high
est building within a distance of TWEEN
ty feet of the same. All such vent
PIPES shall run as direct as possible.
Every privy shall have proper seats
with hinged lids to cover the opening
of same, which shall be kept closed
when not in use.
10. All connections to cesspoOls or
privy vaults shall be made with cast
iron, lead, or vitrified, sewer pipe. All
urinals shall be connected to cesspools,
vaults or sewer by trapped waste
pipes.
20. All cesspools Shall be properly
cleaned out at once, and hereafter at
least once every four months, and
shall be thoroughly disinfected at
least once each week with such disin-
fectant as the Board of Health shall
direct; all such cleaning and disinfect-
ing to be at the expense of the owner
of the property.
81. All waste. soil, sewer or drain
pipes shall be of cast iron, lead or Wit
rified clay. If of iron or lead the joints
shall be caulked with molten lead; If
of vitrified clay, they shall have tight
cement joints, all joints to be smooth
in the inside; open drains may be of
water tight masonry.
%. All cesspools or privy vaults
when abandoned and the use thereof
discontinued shall be at once entirely
emptied of liquid and solid contents.
and shall be disinfected and filed with
earth, sand, ashes. or other such clean
materials; and the wooden curbing
about the same removed to a depth of
at least four feet below the surface of
the ground. In no case shall refuse,
garbage or any unclean material be
used in filling such privy vault or cess
pool.
90. All buildings and premises which
do not conform in every respect to the
requirements of the foregoing regula-
tions are hereby declared nuisances
and dangerous to the public health.