The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-05
THE C|TY'S
HEAL I'll
Vital Statistics for
the Month OF
August.
DEATHS DUE TO
TUBERCULOSIS
Reports Made to Board OF Health
by Plumbing Inspector and
Sanitary Officer.

in the jurisdiction OF the Board Of Health
Tor the month of August. as presented
at yesterdays meeting, give a most in
teresting summary of the health condi-
tons Of Honolulu for the month just
passed
The vital statistics show, as usual, a
high rate of mortality for city of this
size, the death rate for August being 2.54
for each thousand inhabitants. OF the
one hundred deaths reported, one-fourth,
twenty-five. were of infants under one
year of age. Eleven more deaths were
of children under ten years of age, while
only six were of persons over seventy,
Between the ages of twenty and forty,
there We're twenty-nine deaths.
The greatest mortality was among the
Hawaiians, of whom twenty died during
the month. Deaths among the Japanese
numbered twenty-three; Chinese, twenty;
Portuguese, six; Americans, six; British,
three, and other nationalities, two. Of
the one hundred deaths reported. there
Were sixty-seven males and thirty-three
females Nine post mortems were held
and six deaths investigated Deaths
were divided by wards as follows: First,
twenty-eight; second, ten; third. thirteen;
fourth, six; and fifth. forty-three
Deaths during the month We're from
the following causes: Typhoid fever
four; whooping cough, two; diarrhoea,
four; dysentery. three; syphilis, congen-
ital one; puerperal septicen1ia, one: aico-
holism. one; malnutrition, two; carcino-
ma, one; henorrhagic diathesis. one; tu-
berculosfs, mesenteric, two; pulmonary
eleven; general, two; marasmus senile,
one; old age, two; apop1exy, one; brain
congestion, five; brain hemorrhage, two
convulsions, three; paralysis, one; ber-
iberi two: angina pectoris, one; endocar-
ditis, one: valve disease, five; asthma
one; bronchitis. five; Iaryngitis. one
pneumonia, ten; pulmonary conges-
ton, one; appendicitis, one; gastric ulcer
one; gastritis. three; gastro-enteritis
one; inflammation of intestines six: per-
foration of intestines, one; infiamma ton
of liver, one; peritonitis, three: acute
nephritis; two; urernfa, three; eczema,
one; suicide, one
The deaths are further classified: Di-
gestive, seventeen; respiratory, seven
teen; urinary. FIVE; circulatory, seven;
nervous. fourteen; developmental, three;
constitutional, seventeen; dietetic three;
septic. one; venereal. one; diarrheal, sew
en-; and febriIe, six. The summarized re-
ports of the various heads of departments
are given below:
REPORT OF CITY SANITARY OFF,
GER.
Building permits approved, forty -one ;
recommendations made, one; cesspools To-
Gated, seventeen; building permits refus-
ed, three; inspections made, 4S3; prosecu-
lions in court, three.
REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS.
abated, 2S71; complaints fled, four: in
spections made, 1893.
REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIAN.
Patients visited, sfxty-one: patients
treated at office, 26s; patients sent to hos
pital, one; prescriptions filed, 26S.
REPORT OF FOOD COMMISSIONERS.
Samples of milk tested, 105; samples of
food tested, nineteen; prosecutions made,
none, chemical analyses made, eleven:
authorizations detected, thirty-eight.
REPORT OF BACTERIOLOGIsT.
Microscopic examinations made, sixty
four; cultures made, none.
REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR,
| Plans filed, 14s; inspections made, $50;
permits issued, 14S; final certificates is
sued, lightweight.
REPORT OF MEAT AND FISH IN
SPECTORS.
| Fish examined. 239,810; fish condemned.
2osS.
REPORTS OF INSPECTORS.
The reports of the various inspectors
are summarized as follows:
j. l. Wheeler, District No. l. total in
spections, 654
A. G. Hitchcock, District No. :. total
inspections, is49.
n. P. jacobson, District No 3, total in
spections, 1858.
vivichaves. District No. 4, total inspec-
tons, 1106.
T. W Carroll, District No. 5. total in
| spections, 1912.
j w. Franchise, District No, 6, total
| inspections, 1880.
| REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The following is the report of Plumb
| ing Inspector Keen:
Honolulu, H. T., Sept. 8, 1901
DR.. J. s. 3. Pratt, Executive Officer.
| Sir:-I beg leave to submit my semi
monthly report ending August 3Ist, 1901
which is as follows:
| Number of plans filed, 81.
Number of permits issued, s.
Number of inspections of plumbing and
house sewers, 800.
| Number of finals 81
! Number of sewer connections, 81.
| Total for month:
Number Of plans fled, las.
| Number of permits issued, AS.
| Number of inspections of plumbing and
house sewers, 356.
Number of finals issued SIS.
/ Number of sewer connections made, 80
| on September I, 3D. separate connec-
tfons had been made to the sewer system
| representing GA buildings in which are
some 5000 people, mostly Chinese and
japanese.
| These connections are for the. most
part along King street, Eva OF Nuuanu
stream, and along Lilina street TO School
All houses along both streets are with
a few exceptions now connected with the
sewer system. the plumbing in all Of said
] houses having been put In sanitary