Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-02-16
Will MOVE AGAINST
DIRTY KAKAAK0
Board of Health Will
Cleanse All Plague
Spots.
BILL BY E. P. DOLE TO
keep OUT CONTAGION
Pig Stys Not Allowed Up Nuuanu
Valley--TenderS for TarO for
LeperS Will Be
Received.

Two important subjects which were
before the Board of Health at yester-
days session, are of more than ordi-
nary interest One was the matter of
moving against the plague spot. Ka-
| kaako, and the other was the bill pro-
posed by Attorney General Dole to pre-
vent Hawaii from becoming second
Southern California. dumping ground
for the disease ridden people Of the
world.
The campaign against insanitary
Kakaako began with resolution yes
terday. Condemning four parcels of
land in that district which are espe-
cially offensive and dangerous to the
public health. The resolution was sub
mitted by Geo. w. Smith and was sec
pnded by Attorney General Dole and
passed without a dissenting vote. The
Superintendent of Public Works will be
notified of the action today and orders
will be issued at once for the owners
to fill up these pools Of stagnant, dis
ease breeding water.
President Raymond. in discussing the
subject from the chair, said: The
entire districts of Kakaako and Kewalo
are in a very bad sanitary state. am
in favor II necessary, Of condemning
the whole of both districts until the
property owners and the government
make the locality At for people to live
in.
AS a medical man, give It as my
opinion that those districts are abso-
lutely unfit for human habitation. It
was a great mistake to allow the own
ers OF property down there to place II
on the market for homes. No sewerage
is possible. the land is so low and fiat.
II Is perfectly feasible to fill up the
entire district to a proper level. at
which sewerage is possible.
81 consider 1t the sacred duty Of this
Board at this time to take the matter
up and carry 1t out to a finish. We
must compel the people to come up to
the rules made necessary for the pub
lie health. Kakaaako is worse than
Chinatown, a thousand times worse
If 1t is not fixed, II will mean another
epidemic"
Some objection was raised to such a
sweeping plan Of health measures. with
the suggestion that the matter should
be deferred. This brought from the
president even more positive state
ments. He continued:
There Is no time like the present
No living soul should have the right
to jeopardiZe the life and health Of the
people. After the experience of this
community a year ago, will not res,
until that whole district is cleaned up
! No one can walk through Kakaakc
without the stencil remaining on Their
clothing. The place never should have
been used for residence purposes. II
is well enough for factory sites.
"The Board OF Health must move in
this matter. The owners will not dc
II. The big estates will not do it. The
Bishop Estate will not do It, The low
land must be filled to a proper Level
so that sewers may be put down. Peo'
pie must not live down there, as pres
ent conditions are and, as ! said, ! will
not rest until the place is clean, even
II | have to call mass meeting and
appoint committee of 1000"
Attorney General Dole told OF the
difficulties he had had in getting Pratt
the leper, out of the country, and how
only by paying passage on a tramp
freight steamer of 800 could he sue
coed. The bill was allowed by the
Board and DIR. Carmichael given a vote
OF thanks for his assistance In the
matter.
AS a result OF the Pratt case, Attor-
ney General Dole has drawn up a
bill for submission to the Legislature
designed to prevent the landing at this
port OF persons infected with conta-
gious diseases. The bill as drafted Is
as follows:
THE Board Of Health, or any agent
thereof duly authorized thereto, may
detain and segregate any person com
ing into tails Territory who is sus
pected Of having a contagious or in
fectious disease endangering the pub
lie health. until proper medical ex
animation can be made under direction
of the Board Of Health; and, IL 1t ap
pears upon such examination that such
person has a contagious and infection,
disease endangering the public health
and is not a resident of the Territory
the Board of Health shall order hin
to depart from the Territory as soor
as the circumstances of the case ant
the facilities for doing so will admit
meanwhile OBTAINING him in custody
II he refuses or neglects to obey said
order, being able to obey the same
and not being resident oil the Terri
tory, he is guilty Of a misdemeanor
punishable by Imprisonment at hard
: