The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-09

The Board or Healths report for the
month of November shows 2.3.b uui-
sances abated during the month. by the
sanitary inspectors. These large hg-
ures are the result OF the work of six
men, under city Sanitary Officer Tracy
They show the success OF the plan put
In operation some months ago by the
board, as "a means of keeping the city
clean. The November figures are not
above the average. Since the plan went
into operation it has been a regular
thing for the officers OF the board to
find from 1900 to 1900 nuisances a
month, and peremptorily order them
abated.
The nuisances are mostly rubbish
piles, heaps of garbage. etc, which are
left 10 rot and breed disease. unless the
inspectors make regular rounds. The
same places are reported month after
month, majority coming from the
homes and places Of business of the
Chinese. When an inspector finds such
a state of affairs. he at once orders the
refuse burned and removed, and in this
wav Honolulu Is being kept more clean
than ever before.
1T Is impossible for the tenement
houses and other places 10 get dirty
again as they once We're said DR. Pratt
executive officer Of the Board Of Health.
THE inspectors visit every place in
their district twice a week except in
some of the districts far out where IL Is
impossible TO call so often. They dis
cover any lack Of proper cleanliness at.
once and the nuisance is abated, to the
benefit Of the whole district and city.
The results show that the only way
TO deal with the population we have
here rs to keep at the people all the
time The places became dirty again
and again. The inspectors report the
same place often. after they have had
IL cleaned once. showing that the only
thing We can do to keep such places
clean Is to have men at work constantly
enforcing the laws.
THE system was inaugurated last
May and has worked well ever since.
The figures for November. 1856 nuisan-
ces abated. are not larger than usual.
The month is a fair sample of the
amount Of cleaning done that would be
left undOne If we had no such system,
and the amount Of dirt that would ac-
cumulate from month to month, until
the city would be like IL was before we
had the great cleanup i'm plague times.
II can never get like that again under
this system"
A small proportion Of the nuisances
are due 20 defective plumbing, ana
need Of connection with sewers. I'M
these cases the necessary plumbing is
ordered. In some cases owners Of big
lodging houses have been compelled to-
cement their back yards, this being the
Onl way TO keep them clean Through
out the city there are large tenement
houses with small sunless backwards,
and these have the special attention of
the inspectors.
The Chinese and Japs who receive
special attention, are becoming accus-
toned 20 the visits Of t'a inspectors.
and know what to eXpe't when the lat
ter make their roundg. N spite Of ~
however, they cOntinua 20 allow rubbish
to accumulate, and 49,. reports show
that but for the regularity Of the visits
the most Ordnarn rules Of sanitary
cleanliness would be neglected. and the
city would soon become as filthy as It
was when the citizens went through
Chinatown and burned tons Of rubbish
in the streets.