The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-04
THE DUCKS
COME NEXT
Investiga alton of
Beach Road
Ponds.
From Thursdays daliy)

attention ~ the Board Of Health. city
Sanitary officer Tracy, In his monthly
report. yesterday called attention to the
insanitary condition Of the duck ranch
es along the Beach road, and the Board
Of Health Immediately decided upon a
committee which will investigate con-
ditions in that district.
The committee is composed of Paul
Isenberg, DR.. W. l.. Moore and DR.
Sloggett, and i'm company with Mr.
Tracy. these members are to make the
round of the duck ponds.
The following is the monthly report
of the city sanitary officer, in which he
refers to sanitary conditions along the
Beach road:
April 2, 1902.
Dr.. j. $. b. Pratt, Executive officer.
Board of Health.
Dear Sir:-Following is my report
for the month of March. 1902:
Number of building applications re-
Ceived %.
Number of building applications ap-
proved 2l.
Number Of building applications of
previous months approved 3.
Number of building applications re-
fused, /.
Number OF building applications held.
Number Vf building applications held
by survey department, s.
The application refused was for a
building on lot in kewalo, which is
three feet below the required grade.
The permit held is for building on
Nuuanu and Beretania streets, where
the plans call for a violation of the air
space regulation.
Nine ceSSpoOlS have been located du
ring the month
Eight buildings have been moved or
altered 50 as to conform to the regula-
tions of the Board of Health.
Eight builders without the necessary
permits have been notified to obtain
the same and seven have already done
so.
Examinations of buildings and lots
before, during and at completion of
process of construction, 1903.
Inspections other than of new build
iags, 292.
Certificates for lodging house. restau-
rant or hotel purposes applied for, 81
OF these SO were issued and five held
for sanitary work to be done; four GER
tificates We're issued on applications
previous to March 1st.
Certificates applied for previous to
March 1st, still held, s.
Number of adults which can by law
be lodged in these buildings licensed,
| 2S17.
| Four formal complaints have been
| fled and the nuisances in each case
| have been abated.
! Twenty-one 4S-hour notices have
! been served during the month. Two ar
rests have been made. one case was
| nole pressed and the other case was
| also nOlle pressed after the nulsances
! had been abated.
Nine pig raisers at Kapalama-kai
/ have been served with written notices
20 remove their swine from that local
ity within thirty days, All the pens at
present drain into the rice and lily
patches is the reason for removing
! them.
The rainy weather during the month
has very materially retarded sanitary
work, but on The other hand it has
helped in that it has shown up the
places where drainage and fillng Il
ecessary and work can now be intelli'
gently carried on.
A matter which | have been investi'
eating and which | beg leave to bring
before the Eoard is the insanitary con
dition of the district which lies jus
Eva of Kdlia road as 1t turns off from
The Waikiki road and mauka of Ala
Moana from the long bridge on Ala
Moana or Beach road to John Ena'i
premises. The Piinaio stream floW
through this district. 1t is very slug
gish and shallow and the Chinese haV
fenced off POI tions of it and turned !
into duck ponds. Besides the stream
there are two or three large ponds
which are also used as duck ranches
The majority of the ten duck rancho
raise swine and the pens drain int
these ponds. This, combined with tn
filthy mud constantly being stirred II
by the ducks, makes the place any
p thing bat a healthful locality, and tn
? majority of the residents in the vicin
ity complain of the odors arising, espe
5 ciany during low tide. 1t seems to m
} that as the district is being built u
p that some radical measures are neces
+ saIy.
: r spectfully submitted,
G. T.. TRACY,
CITY Sanitary officer.
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