The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-09-22
Another and More Dissraceful Plague Spot Is
Found--Signs Of an Attempt to Clean
Up Before Reporters Came.
(From Thursdays Advertiser,

CFrom Thursda
Mssrs F. Cooke Theodore Richards and Perley L. Horne
personal inspection Paama district yesterday in
company with Settlement Worker Rah whose complaints
have reused of Health daory
action
Though had Cleaned up places in the dis
morning against personally conducted party of the
Presidents the three gentlemen agreed that amount procaa
ton could make it sanitary without active effort
tamper truth" said Theodore Rich
after investigation. What he said about the in
sanitary condition of this part of the city is 1t unealthfu
unsightly md should be cleaned up"
places should be cleansed and kept ceansed said
Mr. A. In the places where the inspectors have
entity just finished the stuff mostly under the houses
sanitary and will need constant hard work to
make it and keep it So"
"A ride through on the any Pala
sadly of cleaning thought before seeing
what have this afternoon One might expect have to
conditions in county village have of
cities Of United States but have nothing bad as
this anywhere
ITO clean the Desha and Pua Lane portion which
nsantay would be Inexpensive and simple mat
easy lovely heahful district
of it.
conditions existing the business
portion different 1t would be hard find things
much than of those places President Pinkam
wrong when he suggest that Mr. Rah tamperng with the
truth Mr. Rah told the truth ready after an
investigation myself
The hour was spent in very cursory
forty premises 4a1e King
pressed disgust mild finding long aleyway reek
ing with filth and used both passageway and closet by all
inhabitants long buildings There absolutely
toilet soil under the panks marhy
being sewer connections.
At of alleyway chicken yard had built
house. adding filth Incidentally Mr. Rath in
of presence of what feared be malignant
typhoid Pua Lane girl of the Eva houses
tally yesterday symptoms
pected to i've
After the inspection with quiet expressions
that the had deterioraed in its sanitary standards Me
Cooke Horne Richards their and Mr. Ra
bedside girl dying of typhoid-a filth disease
President Pnkham will have others his trail 1t
may patrons Kaiulan school will inquire him
why he takes little their children and the
typhoid gets Paama he will find something besides
necessary prove that all is well.
The places investigated Messrs Cooke Horne Richards
yesterday displayed such violations of the law these
Iwie closets draining into pools under the houses
Dowsett Lane, with stagnant bath pools
4a1e King vile marsh feet long the the
shops and bordered by damp and filthy living
bath houses closets emptying directly
which flow into sagnant pools along King
The dumping of garbage under every house in the
whole district.
Yesterday morning of the Board of Health inspectors
made hasy several of the ordered all
swept sight promptly added the decaying
bish the sidewalks md steps,
"The Japanese the cleany of the lot said Mr. Cooke
after looking alleys "They
of what sanitary places
speakabe"
In response blunt question Mr.. Raths he
blamed for the of affairs Mr.. said inspector
his reports acted on
This cries for immediate action by competent officers"
INFANT MORTALITY amo
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Infants died December