The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-15

Fertilizer works. They are wooden build
iues. two-storisd. and each OF them is
noored with cement for its whole length.
Zach building IL divided into little rooms
ai ng IT. length. In these rooms the
Chinese iaundrymcn do their work. They
pay rental TO the Government and in re-
trrn secure the use OF the room and pien-
~ Of fresh water. botn hot and cold. This.
IL pipcd 20 them from a boiler house
which a. owned by the Government and
managed by ~. In these little compart-
ments IN one or another of the two long
wash houses nearly all the washing for
ffcnoiulu n done.
Tho rooms. rs was said. are noorel
with cement and each has tubs and
truughs and tables, where the clothes are
scrubbed and pounded and rubbed TO get
lem clean. For years all these appli-
anccs have been In these places. The Ia
bics whore the clothes are pounded Chi
nssc fashion are saturated with water
ana rotten with NTH. IL II likely that
some Of them have not been dry for years,
for they are In constant use for long pc
ricd All the walls are mouldy and where
the splashed water from the clothes are
swung about the heads OF the laundry
men are wet and rotten. But the tables
arc particularly so. There must be the
see0s % every known disease lurking in
those soaked and water-logged tables.
TABLES SHOULD BE GALVANIZED.
Almost ever since can remember,
said Dr. Pratt. as he pointed them out.
n have been trying 90 get the Govern
rett % have thoso tables covered with
galvanized iron. They are never dry and
you can see how the Nth OF years muss
have been pounded into them" and he
lodged as a Chinese iaundryman, scrub
bling phiegmatically at rope OF clothes
suddenly lifted n over his head and
brought u down with thwack upon the
tohle. sending dirty water flying In every
direction
Prom the floors and from the washing
tfcughs In the houses the dirty water Is
drawn by a cemented ditch along the
lsrgth Of the wash houses and gathering
ever more nth and dirt as Il runs slug
Eishiy along. emptIes at length beyond a
picket fct.ce which shuts the wash houses
OF from the reef. into what was once ka-
mi bay, where II was expected TO be
carried or by the tide TO the open sea
Now this method OF disposing OF the
drainage from tho wash houses was all
very well An theory and perhaps In prac-
tice In the early days when the houses
the Shiny waters from the houses to the
reef have resulted In the construction OF
n long mud bar. which has gradually Wild
oaed and widened until now the houses
are far away from the fresh salt water
Of the bay, separated from II BY waste
% ooxe exhaling an odor that is sicken-
Ing. n stencil that IL NJ breeder or dis
case OF tho foulest sort. And through
ttis rceklng peninsula OF human detritus
ana excreta moves sluggishly stream
Of soapy water. A green scum covers the
little bays and bayous II makes In It's
slew passage TO the sea, and ere IL reaches
the open water that flashes In the sunlight
beyond n. sinks and In lost In the foul
smelling morass which hedges II on from
the fresh. salt sea
FEARFUL CONDITIONS.
There. look at that" said DIR. Pratt
M he pointed out over the noisome waste
10 seward. do you wonder that we have
dmcuity IN getting people TO put sanitary
appliances into their houses when the
beard OF Public Works maintains Una.
KIND % place under their very noses1
have been trying In vain to get them 70
put IN n cesspooi or 20 build eemen'
trench that would send this stun out 10