The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-01-17

! OF this plumbing, 52G pieces went into
now bu ldngs, $50 into Old buildings, ana
/ 1s2 into outhouscs.
| The average number of inspections for
each working day during the year was
! 100 and the average sewer connections
made each working day was 1.GG.
The approximate number of people US
ing the sewer up to January l, 1902, was
| 1850.
| When It IL remembered that there are
still 5000 sewer connections to be made,
/ 1t can very readily be seen that If they
are not made with more rapidity in the
future than they have been in the past,
that it will be a long time before we get
! rid of the cesspools.
AS that part of the city Eva OF Smith
street Is very generally connected with
the sewer. l would suggest that the bal
ance of the city he required to do so as
rapidly as possible, as l find In most
cases people are only waiting the orders
or your honorable board to connect, as is
instanced 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 cheap,
er (from a monetary. to say nothing Of
a sanitary point of view to pay the
small fee demanded by the government
to connect with the sewer, than II - to
maintain a cesspool. for cesspoos must
be pumped out and for this the govern
ment must be paid, and 1 venture to as
sert that more money is paid out annu-
ally for pumping out cesspools than
connections.
l have the honor 10 be.
Your obsdient servant.
| Il. G. KEEN.
Inspector OF Plumbing and House
Sewers.
The following are the reports OF to-
tai inspections In the various districts
for December. in the order of the dis
trlct numbers:
]. Il. German. $50 inspections; A. q.
Hitchcock. $40 Inspections; n, y. ia
cobson 1911 Inspections: r. W. Carroll.
District No. s. 9SS inspections; John w.
Francis. District No. 6, 1860 inspections.
CITY SANITARY OFFICER.
The city sanitary officer in his report
for the month of December shows that
there has been a general compliance
with the Boards order to clean the
city. He says:
Honolulu, II. T., Jan. 3, 1902,
DIR, J. s b. Pratt.
Executive officer, Board OF Health:
S'r:-Folowing Is the report of the City
Sanitary Officer for the month OF Dccem-
ber 1901:
Number OF building applications receIv-
ed, 81.
Number of building applications ap-
Number OF building applications disap-
proved o.
Number OF building applications OF pre-.
Vous months approved TO-
Number of building applications with
! drawn. 2
| Number of building applications held, 6
! Number Of building applications held
/ by Survey Department. 10.
! Two of the six applications held violate
sanitary regulations, three have not fled
sutticieQt plans and one IS held until the
grade N the lot Is raised.
| Ccsspools located during the month, O.
! Buildings altered or moved so as to
conform to the sanitary regulations, 10
, Examinations before, during and com,
! pletion OF building, 1874
/ Inspections other than of new building,
S62.
/ Certificates for lodging house, restau-
rant or hotel licenses applied for, Is. An
of these Voc. issued.
/ Certificates issued on applications pre-
Vious to December 5th; certificates held
for sanitary work to be finished. Q
Number of adults which can by law be
lodged In these buildings licensed 20Si.
Three formal complaints have been H.
ed and the nuisances Investigated and
ahated
Twenty-four 4S-hour notices have been
served and In twenty-five cases the re-
cipients proceeded to ahate the nuisance
In two cases the nulsances are being
ahated.
Twenty-Five notices to connect premises
20 the public sewer system have been
served.
Three builders without permits have
been notified to obtain permits. and have
done SO.
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 underneath. The In
, spectors have also been finishing up back
orders to close up the year, which ac.