The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-16
WORK OF THE YEAR.
HEALTH OFFICIALS SHOW THEIR
DOINGS.
More Sewer Connections Are Needed.
Or shorey Examining opium and
Baer-Cleaning The city

The Board of Health yesterday re-
Ceiyed a number of reports from It's Of
hCers. some of them giving a summary
for the year ending December 81 last.
Plumbing Inspector Keen called atten-
tion TO the need for quicker work in
connecting with sewers. His report
for the year ending December 81, show
ed sos sewer connections made during
the year. The inspector reported that
sewer connections were not being made
fast enough, and made the following
recommendations:
THE approximate number Of people
using the sewer up to January l, 1902,
was, T., 800.
when it is remembered that there
are still 5000 sewer connections to be
made, it can very readily be seen that
if they are not made with more rap
idity i'm the future than they have
been i'm the past, that it will be a long
while before we get rid of the cess
pools.
LAS that part of the city, Eva of
Smith street is very generally con-
uected with the sewer 1 would sug
gest that the balance of the city be
required to do so as rapidly as posi-
bic as / find i'm most cases people are
only waiting the orders of your Hon
Orabe Board to connect as is in
stanced by the order to residents
along the line of King and Young
streets where a nuisance was quickly
abated by cheerful compliance to said
order.
1t should not be a very difficult
matter for people to figure out that it is
cheaper Cfrom a monetery, to say Moth
ing of a sanitary point of view to pay
the small fee demanded by the Gov
eminent to connect with the sewer,
| than it is to maintain a CesspOol, for
| CesspOOls must be pumped out and for
| this the Government must be paid,
and 1 venture to assert that more mo-
ney is paid out annually for pumping
out cesspoOls than would be charged
for twice that many connections"
City Sanitary officer c. H. Tracy re-
| ported as to inspections of premises
during december. He said:
The month in general has been spent
| in clearing and cleaning up the city,
and tons of rubbish have been removed
| from under and around buildings
and loose lumber piled so as to prevent
rats from making their nests under
meath. The inspectors have also been
/ finishing up back orders to close up the
| year which accounts for more nuisances
| being abated during the month than
were reported
| DR.. ShOrey's report was as follows:
-Four samples of tincture of opium
were examined and all found to be be-
low standard; two of them however
very little,
| six samples of beer, including the
brands sold in most of the saloons
were examined and nothing which can
be considered an adulteration found
! The amount Of alcohol { attained var
led from 3.5 to As per cent and the
amount of extract from t per cent To
| . per cent Five of the six samples
contained some preservative either
benzOic acid or a fiuoride, but as these
substances are not injurious they can
not be considered an adulteratiOn as
the law here now reads.
The samples of coffee found on
sale on examination We're found to con-
tain chiCOry and roasted cereal. These
samples were obtained from JOaO Mo-
niz, Punchbowl street, and were label
led respectively. 1. Excellent Ground
| Coffee Washington Mercantile CO. and
-. Ground Coffee Hawaiian Coffee
| Mills Honolulu
These should have been labelled
| Coffee Compounds or Coffee Mix
| ture, and the Washington Mercantile
| Co. in the case of brand No. 1 and
| GOnsalVes & co. i'm the case Of brand
| No. . were each fined $25 in the Dis
! trict Court for not hyaing them so
| labelled.
"One sample each of brandy, cocoa,
and currant jelly We're examined and
no aduteration found.
Below is a brief summary of the
work for the year ending December 81,
! 1901:
/ Milk samples taken on the street D.. 1893
/ Milk samples taken on dairies... p
| Milk taken from private PARTIES. 20
Total number of milk samples
/ CANNED 1190