The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-11
SANITATION
AND HEALTH
Reports cf Different
Officers for Some
Months.

Months.
REPORTS from health officials were
submitted in great volume at the meet
ing of the Board of Health yesterday.
Some ran back for several months.
GENERAL SANITARY WORK
! Work OF disinfecting buildings for
two or three months to the end of
| September made this record: Build
fngs, 1856; stores, 1914; rooms, 1919; out
houses, 452.
| Sanitary inspections in Honolulu for
six months show an average of 11,224
monthly Room inspections We're much
more numerous, in the month of June
heing 93563.
Hilo inspection and rat and mosquito
campaigns show up well in the re-
ports.
THE INSANE ASYLUM.
The Insane Asylum quarterly report
to October L shows: Number of pa
tients received. II; died, 4; discharged,
II; making net increase of two, and
the number of patients remaining, 145
males and 40 females, 1874.
PURE MIX CAMPAIGN.
Seventy-nine samples of milk We're
examined in August, of which two were
below acknowledgements of dealers not
given.
On December g. 1904, President Pink
ham recommended to the Legislature
the passage of specific law, ito reg
ulate the production, keeping and dis
trihution of milk and suggested the
means of financing the expense. No ac-
ton was taken. referring to the
boards action in September, when Ger
tain sickness was attributed to impure
milk. the president says: .'It is out of
the question for eight inspectors to
cover every item of conduct and condi-
ton that affects the public health and
after mentioning his proposed pure
milk bill as above, adds: I'VE are
looking AFTER the MIX producers DIS wen
as the means we have allow"
CITY SANITARY OFFICER.
DR.. ]. S. B. Pratt, city sanitary Off
Ger, in separate reports for July, Au-
gust and September. shows results of
" hich the following is summary:
Thirty-four nuisances were reported
and all abated. and one 4s-hour notice
had the desired effect
There were 245 recommendations
made for hotel, restaurant and lodging
house licenses, with permission to &C
commodate 12,42S persons.
Inspections of graves were 116 In
number Six collins were found exposed
in the Catholic cemetery. One comm
in the same cemetery and one in Wal
kiki cemetery were buried in water.
In July Is barrels OF rotten salmon
were condemned. In August 957 tins
canned goods, SO bags Goldfish, 45 tins
oyster sauce and IL barrels salmon
were condemned, and in September 1888
tins crabs and one tin salmon.
Three convictions for selling bad sal
mon were obtained in August. one fine
of $50 and two fines of $40 each being
imposed.
Twenty-one permits to keep swine and
five to keep ducks were issued
DIR. Pratt last month made one trip
to Waialae in company with Food
Commissioner Duncan, also trips to
Nuuanu dam and Kalihi Valley re-
spectively, on sanitary business.
FREE DISPENSARY.
At the Free Dispensary in September
273 cases were treated, comprising 1S9
medical and SO surgical Prescriptions
filled We're 1872 and eye cases treated
81. BY nationaiities she cases were
Portuguese "a, Porto Rican 76. Hawai-
ian 81, German II, American 10. Span
ish 5, Colored s. British 4, Chinese 3,
Russian 8, French 2. Danish 2, Japa-
nese 1, Korean 1, West Indian 1, Swed-
sh 1, Polish l. Hollander L.
BUILDINGS AND PLUMBING.
Plumbing Inspector Keen's reports for
August ard September show the fol-
lowing aggregates: Plans of plumbing
filed and permits issued. for same, SO;
separate pieces of plumbing finished
and accepted, 81; fixtures placed in
above 223; houses connected to sewer
system, q; building permits issued, %
Inspections were made as follows in
| the two months: Building sites. 10;
buildings under construction, 80; re-
pairs of buildings, 81; sewer connec-
tions. Is; nuisances investigated, Is;
plumbing work, 2S2.
| Total, 3S7.