Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-31


shall he made either wholly or in part
water tight, so as to prevent any satu-
ration of the ground about the said
vault, sink or cesspool, and shall be
provided with suitable ventilating ar
rangement.
10. No structure or cover shall be
put upon or over any privy-vault, sink
or cesspool, until 1t has been inspected
by the proper Agent Of the Board of
Health and approved as meeting the
requirements of these regulations and
of public health.
II. Any privy-vault, sink or cesspool,
already constructed in Honolulu which
has become a nuisance, or in any way
dangerous to life or detrimental to
health, shall be removed, reconstruct
ed, or altered to meet the requirements
of these regulations and of public
health, as directed by the Board Of
Health or its Agent.
IL. 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. When 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.
Is. No privy vault or cesspool shall
be maintained or excavated in any
place where for any reason free and
unlmpeded access may not be had to
the same by an excavator cart.
16. 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 out 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. q,
II. 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 cesspool or vault within,
and shall be provided with a substan-
tial water-tight cover, having small,
lid in the same to facilitate
and removal of the con-
.ents.
is. All scesspools or priyy vaults
shall have four-inch cast iron vent
pipes with caulked lead joints, or gal
vanized iron pipes, extending not less
han twelve feet into the open air, and |
Z within twenty feet of an inhabited |
the top of such vent pipes |
hall extend above the roof of the high
,st building within a distance of twen-
y 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
If same, which shall be kept closed |
when not in use.
10. All connections to cesspools or
,rivy vaults shall be made with cast
ron, lead, or vitrifed, sewer pipe. All
lrinals shall be connected to cesspools,
'aults or sewer by trapped waste
,ipes.
20. All cesspools shall be properly
leaned out at once, and hereafter at
east once every four months, and
hall be thoroughly disinfected at
east once each week with such dis
nfectant as the Board of Health shall
irect; all such cleaning and disinfect-
ng to be at the expense of the owner
# the property.
81. All waste, soil, sewer or drain
'ipes shall be Of cast iron, lead or Wit
flied clay. If Of iron or lead the joints