The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-18
WANT No
FOUNT NTAINS
Drinking Places
Tabooed by
Board.

There vas q ful attendance 90 mom-
bcrs ~ the Board Ut Health at yester-
days meeting. There were many mat
tors a. interest aside from the settle
ment troubles which occupied the
greater part ~ the session.
The following resolution Of condol-
onc- was adopted;
whereas. our faithful secretary. e.
Charlock. has lately been bereaved of
his only child. clifford Elmer Char
lock. Now, therefore, IL Is
Resolved, That we. the members of
the Board OF Health, tender TO him and
his wife our sincere and heartfelt sym
pathy In their great affliDtion And be
u further
Resolved, That "a copy of this reso-
luton be spread upon the minutes Of
the board. and also sent to him.
The committee appointed TO investi-
gate the conditions Of ponds at Wal
kik recommended their condemnation.
The duck ranches In the opinion OF the
committee are menace to public
health. and should be removed. In re-
gard to the Bishop Estate lands the
committee reported that the improve
ments already made are mere make
shift and that permanent filling must
be had. The matter was referred to
the sanitary officer to report in detail
that condemnation proceedings may be
brought.
The committee to investigate the
drinking fountains reported against
their being established The committee
had consulted medical men and veter-
| mary surgeons and all were opposed
to the drinking fountains for either
| man or beast as insauitary. II was
further suggested that the same style
Of fountain is to be established in san
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| experiment there should be awaited by
| the board.
DR.. Weddick reported that several
shaclis IN Market street, Kahului,
1 Maui, Were i'm an insanitary condition,
and the matter was referred to the at
torney general with instructions to
| bring condemnation proceedings.
Several Nuuanu street shacks are to
| be examined by the sanitary officer for
| the same purpose.
| \ letter was received from President
| Andrews of the Board of Medical EX-
| aminers in reply to the request of the
| japanese medical society for represen-
| tatiOn upon the board, in which he said
| that the law provided for but three
members and consequently no addi-
| tions could be made. In any case it
would set bad precedent as other ma =
| tiOnalities would also want to be rep
| resented. The certificate of the Japa- =
nese consul is to be accepted by the
Medical Examiners upon applications
for license to practice.
| Permission was granted to the Met
ropolitan Meat Company to run its
sewer into kalihi stream from the new
slaughter house.
1t was decided to have printed copies
of the rules and regulations of the
board, after revision had been made
AZ many Of the statutes now ON the
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Gapic act. and decisions of the courts
TN" Hilo sanitary officer reported
that improvements were being made
by filling the lowlands on the water
front and that $50 Inspections had beer
made during the month.
The following report was made by
DR.. Cofer upon health conditions in the
Orient and Australia:
| Hongkong-Cholera, IL cases. 1:
deaths: smallpox, cases, deaths
plague, l case, zone death.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cases.
!, Observation-Disclosures, 1 case
sydney to March 24th-Plague, 81
cases. IS deaths.
Brisbane, cases all told-Plague. 3.
cases, s deaths two weeks to March 26
cases. one death.
Extract taken from the bill Of health
det'd March %. 1902, per S. S. Doric
Il kon@-Cholera, 20 cases, /.
IL. ,.s, sH .!lpoX, cases, deaths
plague. l case. one death.
Shanghai-Smallpox, cases, n,
deaths.