The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-05-06
Board being admitted TO the delibera-

Board being admitted 10 the dellbera-
tions.
CUT SALARIES ACCEPTED.
President Pinkham reported that the
clerks in the Boards Office had been
notified of the reduction in their sal
aries and had accepted the situation
There was therefore nothing to be
done on that subject.
Something about the Food Commits
sioner and MIX Inspector on the order
OF business was referred to the execu-
tive session.
SUPPLY OF MEDICINES.
The president brought up the matter
of supply of medicines to outside dis
trict physicians. saying several small
acquisitions had been received. lie
had held a slight conversation with the
Governor on the subject. but nothing
was settled. There was still quite a
small stock of medicines in the dis
pensary.
DR. Cooper suggested that the coun-
try physicians should be written to,
answering their applications, and IN
formed that there was no appropria-
ton for medicines, also recommending
public subscription in each district
to provide for medicines. This was
what was being done in Honolulu.
There was agreement to the sugges-
ton.
DUCK RANCHES CONDEMNED.
After many weeks the committee on
complaints about duck ranches pre-
roll rannrt.
Honolulu Hawaii, May 4, 1904.
T.. f.. Pinkham, Esq, President. Board
of Health.
Sir: Your committee to whom was
referred the complaint of certain resi-
dents along the Ala Moana road beg
| leave to report as follows:
The majority of the duck ranches In
the Waikiki district drain through
ponds either into the Piinao stream or
into a stream which runs makai and
discharges into the sea, by the wooden
bridge on the Ala Moana road. Both
of these streams are very sluggish and
contain quite little vegetation.
In the Waikiki district there are fif-
ty-one duck ranches, with approximate
" 1O,2SO ducks, and it can be easily
seen that there will be a large amount
of filth from such number of DUCKS.
This filth after communicating the
ponds and streams is gradually washed
down upon the beach at Waikiki or into
the lagoon mauka of the Ala Moana
road.
Your committee also found that 1t
was the custom of some of the duck
owners to drive their ducks to the beach
along the Ala Moana road and allow
them to feed at low tide.
Having found upon investigation that
the complaint of the residents along the
Ala Moana road was justifiable your
committee took up the question of how
| to remedy the same.
We would recommend that permits
to keep ducks be issued to those having
duck ranches mauka of the Waikiki
road, also makai OF that road and Wal
kiki of the Kalia road, only upon con-
dition that the owners put their places
in sanitary condition. by cleaning their
ponds and yards, putting in gates that
will allow a free flow of water in and
out of the ponds and that the number
of ducks they be allowed to keep shall
not exceed one duck to every 100 square
feet of land and water.
They would further recommend that
the lagoon mauka of the Ala Moana
road and Eva of the Piinao stream
be condemned as a nuisance ana u
danger to the public health and the
parties owning or leasing the same be
ordered to either fill it up or drain 1t.
Further, that no permit to keep ducks
be granted to All Chew and Lee Sue
and that they be given 80 days in which
to dispose of their ducks.
Your committee, while investigating
the conditions at Waikiki and Kalia,
had their attention called to a number
of duck ponds off Sheridan street, and
an examination was made of these
All of these ponds We're found to be IN
Il very insanitary condition and youi
committee would strongly recommend
that the same be condemned and that
the parties raising ducks in these ponds
be given 80 days in which to dispose Of
. the same.
. They would also recommend that the
parties who have been in the habit o.
feeding their ducks along the Ala Mo-
ana beach be notified to discontinue
. the same.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN c. LANE,
Chairman.
w. H. MAYS.
On motion of DIR. Cooper the report
was accepted and the committee