Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-06-09
HEALTH BOARD MEETS
ADULTERATED MILK
DISCOVERED IN HlLO
FOOD COMMISSIONER DUNCAN RE.
PORTS ON ANALYSES OF
MILK AND WATER
SAMPLES.

At the meeting of the Board of
Health held yesterday afternoon DR..
W. II. Mays, chairman OF the commit
tee on cemeteries, submitted the fol.
lowing report:
Your Committee on Cemeteries, to
whom was referred the request Of Rev.
NJ. z. Silva for permission to bury in
Lot 2 of the Kalaepohaku cemetery,
report as follows:
I'VE recommend that such permis-
sion be granted, provided that each
and every interment be recorded In a
book kept for that purpose. and cor
respondingly numbered on a plot OF
said burial lot. And provided also that
each grave be accurately marked by
stake or post at head and foot, and
numbered thereon"
II was decided that the permission
sought for by Mr.. Silva could not con-
sistently be refused.
Food Commissioner Duncan reported
that he had examined l20 milk samples,
nine Of which were from Hilo. OF the
hilo samples there were found to be
below standard and Inspector Bouman
Of Hilo was notified to see to II that
ladulteration was stopped. The Homo
lulu milk dealers from whom samples
OF Inferior quality were obtained were
as follows: Punahou Dairy. NagataLi,
Tavares, Lloyd, Jap. for G. Holt, Jap.
for A. ID. Costa. V. Souza, Matsunaba.
a. Souza, Jap. for II. Bell, Moagava
and Yosteda.
The food commissioner further re-
ported as follows:
Light waters from the Moiliili dis
trict were analysed: the result OF their
examination will be given in a separ-
ate report.
Three waters from Kaneohe were en-
amined on private complaint. one being
q well water. the other two from the
streams and used by residents OF that
locality. The Commissioner gives the
analyses OF these waters. being respec-
lively from a well, Alamihi stream and
Punahala stream, saying OF the RESULTS
"Alamihi stream is reported as flow
Ing through an uncontaminated dis
trict. The analysis shows II to be a
good water and Il may be taken as an
example OF pure water from that dis
trict. Comparing the other waters Will.
| II the analysis shows them to be con-
taminated. The parties interested
were notified and have since learned
that they have taken steps to obtain
q purer water supply"
| 1.-The amount OF carbon dioxide In
four samples Of air was determined for
the Division OF Sanitation.
THE following foods were examine d.
condemned aud ordered destroyed as
not fit for food: Twenty-four cases
Chinese food products. consisting OF
canned shrimps, etc.; Ave boxes raisins,
one box shrimps. fifty boxes apricots,
twenty-seven boxes pruncs, three boxes
peaches. Total, no.
Five samples food were analysed
but the examination OF this class is not
finished. so the report on them is held
lover until next month"
A report from DR.. Cofer was read
giving the health conditions in the Or.
lent as follows:
. Hongkong, two weeks to May 10
. Cholera cases, l; deaths. /. Smallpox
cases, 3; deaths, 3. Plague cases. 40.
deaths. 46.
|, Shanghai, two weeks to May ID
/ Smallpox cases, Il; deaths, ~.
Nagasaki. two weeks to May IL
. Smallpox cases, 40; deaths. Is.
Kobe, two weeks to May 20-Clean
t Yokohama, two weeks to May %
5 Clean.