The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-26
ABATT 0|R EVIL
lWilei Slaughter House
Condemned.
To Inspect Cattle Delayed Bubonic
Bills Other Board of Health
Business.

There was much important business
transacted at the Board of Health meet
ing yesterday afternoon outside of the
raising of the quarantine on Honolulu.
President Wood. Dr. Emerson and
Messrs. Lowrey and Smith were pres
ent.
1t was decided that sake and soy
might be shipped to the other islands
after the outsides of the containers had
been thoroughly disinfected.
a matter which has excited great at
tention of late, the inspection of cat
tie, was brought up. Veterinarians
have reported serious condition of al
fairs on the different islands of the
group; CHAMBERS, lumpy-jaw and tuber-
culosis are only too prevalent and 1t Is
the intention of the Executive to take
steps in the matter that will alleviate
the conditions. The opinion of the
Board of Health was asked and the sub
ject was earnestly discussed at the
meeting. IL was decided that all cattle
shipped from Island ports be inspected
at the port of shipment. 1t was the
sense of the meeting that this will not
obviate the necessity of examining cat
tie at the slaughter house. A motion
was carried to- that effect. 1t was also
decided that, in the opinion of the
Board of Health, the Government
should provide inspectors of cattle in
all the Islands as far as practicable, es-
pecially for dairy cattle.
The management of the hospital for
incurables wished to know If the Board
of Health would pay physician. The
decision was that the Board does not
see It's way to assume the responsible
ity or liability for the salary of physi-
clan TO attend the home for incuTables.
Executive Officer DR.. GaTvin reported
on the laborers' camps in Nuuanu val
ley as follows:
I'm company with the city sanitary
officer / visited the Japanese laborers
camp along the Pail road. Camp NO. j
is now abandoned; it is not especially
Objectionable. Camps Nos. 2 and 3
near the Pail saloon are both filthy and
insanitary. The privies in both cases
consist of mere trenches in the ground
without covering. Both vaults need
disinfection. No cesspools are provid-
ed, and the waste water Is allowed to
run on the ground, rendering the places
foul and muddy. The superintendent
of Public Works has been notified and
agrees to put the camps in proper con-
Gition by supplying cesspools and
privies."
City Sanitary Officer DR.. Pratt re-
ported on an application to raise pigs
in Nuuanu valley. His report was I'M
favorable to the "piggeries" inasmuch
as the city's water supply would be
endangered by their existence in that
! locality. The report was accepted and
| the request denied. The owner has
/ thirty days In which to get rid of his
pigs.
! DR. Garvin brought the insanitary
condition of the slaughter houses at
/ Iwilei before the members for consld-
| Grafton. The dangerous conditions ex-
/ listing in this connection were brought
out and it was moved and carried that
/ the premises now used for slaughter
/ ing purposes be condemned as insani-
/ tary and a menace to the public
/ health.
| Bills incurred under the approprid-
ton for expenses of the suppression OF
the plague prior to April 1st have been
approved by the Finance Committee oil
the Board of Health; that committee
ia now closing its books and bills In
Cured since April LIST are approved by
the Board of Health. Many bills, how
ever, incurred before April LIST are on
ly now being submitted. The Interior
Department, receiving bills for pay
ment. incurred before April 1st and
not approved by the Finance Commit
tee. send the bills back to the Board o.
Health as not properly approved, since
being incurred prior to the LIST OF April
they should be approved by the FL
nance Committee, 1t was moved anC
carried that all bills sent back from
the Interior Office be approved By th'
Board of Health.
DR.. Emerson wanted to know, To-
certain merchants, what action tn
Board would take in the matter o
English and German freight coming II
the Alameda from Sydney. The presi
dent was authorized to act for tn
Board I'm the matter on the arrival o
the Alameda.
At s o'clock the Board adjourned.