The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-02-04
MANY GRAVES
DISTURBED
rHIETY-FCUE HOURS TO DIG A
GRAVE At EALIHI- WAENA-
FOOD AND OTHER REPORTS.

GRAVE AT KALIHI-wAENA-
FOOD AND OTHER REPORTS.
Dr. j. :. ,. Pfltt reported to the
Board of Hearth yesterday on the
sanitary work done during the month
OF January. His report also makes re-
fersuc.s 10 the undesirable conditions
prevailing iu the local cemeteries. The
report contains the following:
Twenty recommendations for
restaurant, lodging and hotel licenses
were issued during the month and 1881
persons can b- lawfully lodged I'm the
buildings Three recommendations for
the month Of December were also sign
ed. the parties having complied with
the Ieguiremeuts for which they were
held over one thousand one hundred
and fifteen adults can be lawfully
lodged under these three licenses.
There are still three recommendations
for December being held as the parties
have not complied with the require
mants; also nine for the month of Jan
uary.
In the inspections Of graves, eight
old graves were disturbed and one
grave. a few months old, was opened.
1t took thirty-four hours to dig one
grave IN KaIihi-waena cemetery. One
coffin was buried in five inches Of wa
ter at the King street Catholic cemetery
In opening up the old graves two diff
ferent remains had to be reburied un-
der the new remains.
complaints have been received again
OF the duck ranches near the Ala Mo-
ana road at Waikiki 1 have investi-
gated the complaint and find that the
parties are fully justified in the matter
/ This question has been brought up sew
eral times before the Board, but no
definite action was ever taken I'm the
matter. l would respectfully request
I that a committee be appointed to thor
oughly investigate the conditions and
make recommendations as to what
would be done to remedy the nuisance
A petition from II. w. S. Edmunds
was received, asking for permission to
sell live fish in stores in Honolulu,
also from specially prepared wagons
on the streets. Edmunds is manager
Of the Inter-Island Live Fish Company.
| His petition was referred to a commit
tee consisting Of Winston, Smith and
Robinson.
The report Of r. A. Duncan, food
commissioner, showed an improvement
in the milk business. Only two sam
pies below standard were found during
the month. one was from japanese
driver from Manoa ranch and the other
from A. Ludlon. The rest Of the report
had to do with various samples Of
canned stuff examined, in which no
serious authorizations were found.
! DR.. Mays, as chairman of a COM
mittee 10 consider a letter from the
mainland about "clean paper money"
/ recommended that the letter he laid on
the table, as there was not much paper
money used in this Trritory. Adopted
T. g. Smith, for the committee on
four insanitary houses at Iwilei, was
granted further time.
\ petition Of Young Tuck for per-
mission to oren a general market on
the Ewa-makai corner of King and
Kekaulike streets was at the sugges-
tion of Mr.. Lane, referred to a special
committee for investigation. W!1~ton,
Smith and Lane We're appointed as the
committee.
Another petition from Mrs. Kaaialu
M, renewing her request that the
Board take care of her four children
and allow her husband to wait on her
self at the Settlement, was, on motion
Of Winston indefinitely postponed
A report was presented by the COM
mittee on the Insane Asylum. signed
by DR.. Mays, Messrs. Smith, Winston
and Robinson. 1t approved of the pre-
sent site for the new building Tt re-
commended that the Superintendent Of
Public Works be requested by the
Board to call for plans, to be submit
ted to the Board, at as early a date as
convenient. The report also recon-
mended that the Public Works De-
partment be requested to remove the
stone crusher from the Asylum site at