The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-06
Board Of Health
Pays Respects to
Correa.
FAILED TO PRESS
THE CHARGES
Vivichaves Exonerated and the
Charges Cast Into Waste
Paper Basket.

"a " COTTea yesterday AFTERNOON at the
special session which was held to hear
the charges preferred against Sanitary
Inspector Vivichaves by Manuel Souza,,
through Correa
Correa was not present at the meet
ing although he had been courteously
notified that a special meeting had been
called to consider his clients case. In
fact, he declined to be present If Cor
reas ears tingled during the course of
the afternoon, and if he is of a super
| stitious nature he can lay the sensation
to the warmth of the individual opin-
action.
| As - the charges themselves they were
| Therefore utterly ignored, and had the
/ Pre- dent of the Board had his way, his
charges would have been consigned to
/ the waste paper basket taken away in
! a garbage cart and eventually have
| found their way to the bottom of the
! sea along with other refuse matter
which is unpleasant to the olfactories of
Honolulans.
! Inspector Nivichaves was present in
! person, together with several of his wit
nesses The Board had confidence in
/
valuable man, and as such mad done his
| duty, to which the Portuguese along the
slopes of Punchbowl strenuously object
| ed. The inference is that the complain
| ants have a natural aversion to cleanli-
ness, and rather than be forced to keep
| their premises clean, resort to violence
to prevent the inspector from carrying
I out the sanitary regulations.
The Board had the appearance of
law court when the members convened
! at 8 O'Clock with President Raymond as
! the judge, and the members as jurymen.
/ The court appearance was well carried
! out with the exception that the plaintin
and his attorney did not deign to grace
the occasion. A few days since the at
! torney sent the following sweeping state
ment of the alleged misconduct of the
| inspector:
! / desire to cali your attention to the
doings, conduct and character of one of
the Board of Health employees, by name,
one John Vivichaves, who has been and
is an inspector in and about the Punch
bowl district. Complaints have already
been made to the Board of Health Off
GERS about this man, which l have known
| from the residents of Punchbowl, as also
from a member of the Board of Health,
and to call your attention to the dissat
| isfactfon OF the residents of Punchbowl
with this officer and ruftian, the Board
! employs, On March % last this man,
without provoca ton, brutally assaulted
| Portuguese on Punchbowl, and has at
other times insulted women of that dis
trict. at one time telling a lady of that
| district that if she Ghe woman) could
rot ......... Portuguese she could -
= If you think it necessary under
| the circumstances, and Notwithstanding
| that complaints have been made before
this, against this man, to have a petit
~ 1a hhnI1
residents in order to have some one ap-
pointed as inspector who can at least
try to be a gentleman, you will oblfge
me by informing me of this fact.
MANUEL SOUzA,
BY A. G.. Correa, His Attorney
! Judge" Raymond called for the plain
| tiff and his attorney. "Bailih Heming-
way said they were not present and
would not be, as he had met Correa in
! tho forenoon and the latter had told him
he had sent a letter containing charges
| to the Board and if they wanted to do
anything further they would have to
investigate the matter themselves. A
| look of disgust spread over the counte-
nances of the members a this announce
ment and the Judge" promptly spoke
his mind.
IF Correa wants to sign commune
cation and wants charges investigated
!
before the Board. I don't think this is
a matter worth listening to, Mr.. Dole,
| though the complainant, Souza, should
at least be present. Mr.. Hemingway
said that Correa had received the no.
tica from the Board of Health about
the special meeting, at Thursday noon.
This is a serious charge which has
been preferred against the inspector. Our
inspectors are supposed to use decent
Language and be courteous at all times
and are so instructed. From what l
learn Of this affair there IS everything
in the inspectors favor and believe ne
has always done his duty. Respectable
people in that neghborhood say he en-
forces the regulations and that's what he
is employed for
Mr. Dole stated very emphatically that
It was an imposition Oh six busy busi-
ness and professional men to call them
to a .meeting of this kind and then nave
the attorney decline to appear. and he
\ thereupon moved to lay the matter on
the table, which was done.
The Board spent a half hour discussing
the sanitary regulations and Relief Camp
No. 2, for which a lodging house license
was granted by the Board on Wednes-
day DR.. Raymond said that the action
of the Board was literally to resclno
regulation No. IS providing for the ais
nosftion of waste water and preventing II
from being dumped into Nuuanu stream
Mr.. Dole was of the opinion that the
Board could go only so far in matters
pertaining to property and persona
rights. but it had seemed to him IT
looking over the premises in questior
that they were in a healthier condluof
+bsn ntne-tenths of the premises occu-
pied by the oriental population in other
narts of the City. He said he was not
competent to judge the natter entirely
| from a sanitary standpoint.
Mr.. Lowrey thought it was case
where the waste water was practically
.. arnptving it into the haTbor, as the tidC
, water rose to a point in Nuuanu stream
above Vineyard street. Mr. Dole moved
to amend the regulation by adding the
words. Except whore the public health
win not be endangered thereby" thu!
giving the Board a leeway in granting