The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-15

engagements at the asylum. and the jury
said:
In view of the foregoing findings
Z and recommendations, we strongly
, recommend to the court having juris-
diction in this matter, to make known
! to the next Legislature the urgent
, need of making liberal appropriation
| FOR carrying out these recommended
i tions for the better care and mainten-
| ance of the Hospital for the Insane"
The government washhouses were
I found to be in an insanitary condition
and other conditions at Iwilei were
mildly reported as follows:
| AN investigation of the condition
! at Iwilei in reference to the old stock
! ade and the vicinity, show a number
/ of lodging houses occupied by a cos
! mopolitan class. The moral conditions
existing there are the same as are
I found in every cheap lodging house
| throughout the city.
, The building known as the old
stockade' is not at the present time
occupied by prostitutes
The grand jury recommended the
! creation of a department of public
! health, and set out fully the sanitary
; problems of the Islands, closing with
the paragraph:
we think it proper to say that we
consider the present Board of Health,
with the exception of the Attorney
General. who receives q salary, re-
markedly devoted and self-sacrificing
in their work The present system
was created when the sanitary prob
lens of the Hawaiian Islands were
comparatively simple: it is extremely
well adapted for a typical American
village or town not exposed TO infec-
ton or contagion from other countries
having no disease like leprosy to deal
with, and in which an overwhelming
ma jority of the people voluntarily and
intelligently keep their own premises
IN a sanitary condition. Its members
are exceptionally good men, but its
machinery is. in our opinion, made
quate for an economical and efficient
performance of the work it has to do
y recommendation was given for
change in the penal code, making mis-
demeanors punishable by only one
years imprisonment. so that these
cases would come directly within the
jurisdiction of the district magistrates.
The report on the liquor question
was as follows:
We recommend that not more than
one liquor license be issued to any
one corporation.
We also recommend that no licenses
for liquor saloons be granted without
the consent of at least two-thirds of
the occupants of adjacent buildings on
the street within 200 feet of the prem
ises in which the saloon is to be locat-
ed in cities and towns: and within a
radius OF a half mile in country dis
tricts; and further, that no saloon be
located within half a mile of any pub
lie landings outside of Honolulu.
I'VE approve of the present limits
established for the sale of distilled
liquors in the city of Honolulu. and
we recommend that the same be not ,
extended.
We recommend that all Primo Ii /
censes for beer saloons be continued
until their expiration, or until a spe- /
cial session of the Legislature is call /
cd.
We recommend that a neutral zone ,
about $50 feet in width be established ,
bout the present saloon limits and ,
the city front, where no intoxicating
liquors shall be sold, and that outside
Of this neutral zone. licenses for the
sale Of pure beer under proper re-
strictions be granted upon the pay
ment Of $3.50.
We recommend that stringent laws
be enacted to suppress the distillation
II okolehao and the brewing of swipes.
The present Federal laws punish the
bre wing and sale of swipes by fines up
to s., O00 and imprisonment up To FIVE
years. and by framing Territorial laws,
such that the Territorial and Federal
officers can work in conjunction, we