The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-07
NEW LAWS
Of HEALT I'll
Garbage Regulations to
Cover Country
Towns.

New health regulations were adopt.
| ed by the Board of Health at yester-
| days meeting, relative to garbage. ex-
pectoration and laundry clothes sprfnk-
ling.
1t will be remembered that the Sen
ate at last session, threw out bill
OF Mr.. Dickeys to prohibit expector-
ating in public places. 1t was regard
ed by most of the members as a freak
measure, their reading evidently not
having extended to the fact that SINH
lar laws are in force in many cities of
the mainland.
"A mosquito regulation was deferred
TOR one week. The Board adopted
President Pinkham's recommendations
with an amendment, as they appear
below. In recommending that the
present regulations on garbage, Nos
"a to 81 inclusive, be rescinded and the
following ones adopted in their place
the president said:
Garbage regulations, at the present
time, apply only to the sanitary dis
trict of Honolulu. Several of the towns
of the Territory desire the garbage
regulations extended so as to apply
outside of Honolulu. After consulta-
ton with the Governor and Attorney
General. L present the following regu-
lations'':
GARBAGE REGULATIONS.
oath. No garbage or offensive liquid
or matter shall be thrown or deposited
in any highway, street, lane or public
place within the Territory of Hawaii.
18th No garbage or offensive liquid
or matter shall be kept upon any prem
ises except in covered containers of
not less than II cubic feet capacity and
shall be removed from said premises or
disposed of within not less than one
week, unless otherwise ordered dispos-
ed of by the Board of Health or its
duly authorized agents.
18th. No garbage, stable manure
night soil or animal or vegetable refuse
of any nature whatsoever which is sub
ject to decay shall be used for grad
ing purposes or for filling in house lots
or any other tract of land.
9th. No person or corporation shall
convey through the streets of any
city, town or village of the Territory
any garbage, offensive liquid or mat
ter, swill or filth, except in such con-
tanners as will prevent spilling and
leakage
2Sth Public dumping grounds for
the dumping and disposition of garbage
shall be designated from time to time
h o,-1 -
bage shall be dumped or deposited in
any place other than the place or
places so designated by the Board of
Health.
EXPECTORATION.
The number of deaths in Honolulu
for two years ending June 80. 1905. was
1884. OF these 26S, or 1916 per cent,
were from pulmonary tuberculosis, and
SO. or 100 per cent, Were from other
tubercular diseases.
Section SO of the Rules and Regu-
lations of the Board of Health declares
pulmonary tuberculosis to be a ''com-
and a preventable disease"
Unquestionably exposure arising
from ,indiscriminate expectOration by
those afflicted is the prime means of
spreading the disease.
The Regulation No. % of your honor
able board is wholly Inadequate EX-
pectoration should not be allowed in
any place where the clothing Of any
person can touch the sputum. 1t would
be Impossible to control the public to
the extreme. hence, I suggest the gut
ters of the street be excepted.
I recommend Section % of the Rules
and Regulations of the Board of Health
be amended to read as follows:
Resolved. That no person shall ex-
pectorate upon any public place, side
walk. street crossing, or upon the floor
of any street car or railway car, or
any other public conveyance, or of any
public building or any building COM
cutters are excepted.
THE SPRINKLlNG
OF LAUNDERED ARTICLES.
In the recommendations made by the
Board of Health, December 81, 1904, to
the Legislature for sanitary enact
ments was one to prevent the spraying
IF clothing and articles with liquid
from the mouth. The suggestion fall
ed. An investigation of the adverse
decision on similar law by the Su-
preme Court under date of February
ia 1899. discloses the fact 1t was Act
Il. Sections 1-2-3, Session Laws of 1898, |
that was rendered void. and not a |
regulation of the Board of Health.
The Board of Supervisors OF the
County of Oahu passed Ordinance No. |
covering this subject.
Tt would seem the prohibition of
Mouth sprinkling should extend
the Territory, and can be
,est brought about by regulation OF
he Board of Health, therefore, 1 sug-
,est the following be passed which is