Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18

OF heAtn PRESIDENT Blnknam SUBMIT
ted a plan relating to Government
wash houses as follows:
To the Members Of the Board Of
Health:
call your attention to the Govern
ment laundries and wash houses.
Sections 1868, 1864, 1906 of the Re
vised Laws OF the Territory of Hawaii
authorize the erection OF laundries and
wash houses by the Department of
Public Works and prohibit laundry
keeping or washing for hire, except in
buildings provided by the Government,
under the penalty of a fine Of fifty dol
lars for each offense. The portion of
Honolulu affected by this act is within
y circuit Of three miles from the juno.
lion Of Nuuanu and King streets.
Section 1865 Revised Laws stipulates
Such laundries and wash houses when
ereCted shall be under the supervision
and control OF the Board Of Health"
From time to time have personally
visited and inspected most thoroughly |
the Government wash houses.
We have used all possible authority !
to keep the rooms in a sanitary condi.
ton, but the difficulties are inherent. 3
The only remedy is the construction
and equipment of new building, plan.
ned on totally different lines than the
I'D ones.
The Legislature of 1905 provided for
new buildings.
At the request of several officials
have made a study Of the situation and
subject and now present my sugges-
tons to you with the request should
they meet with your approval, copies
be forwarded to the Superintendent OF
Public Works and the Board Of Super.
visors of the County of Oahu for their
consideration.
II is well to bear In mind that we
live in a tropical climate where fire.
quent changes OF clothing are neces.
sary for comfort and health and that
laundrying is a most perplexing item
VI expense In most households.
Since the Government has deemed II
necessary and wise TO control laundry.
ing II would seem proper and within
ITS functions, that II should require the
latest, most sanitary and economical
! devices and methods to be employed
In the future.
THE BUILDINGS RECOMMENDED
The sketch herewith presented was
detailed by the courtesy of the Won
Hamm- Young CO., Ltd, from ground
plan submitted by myself. The build.
ing is designed to be entirely OF con-
rrete with an iron roof, the only wood
to be used to be the roof trusses, win.
dow and door frames and doors.
II contains boiler and engine room.
/ hi N
and sorting room, 1877 feet long by 80
to 80 feet wide. All corners are to be
rounded. so there will be no chance for
dirt to lodge. The floor is to be OF con-
yrete laid with expanded metal. Drain.
age will be perfect. All surfaces are
to be highly finished.
THE MACHINERY RECOMMENDED.
One 100 horsepower boiler and one
10 horsepower engine with necessary
accessories.
Fifteen washing machines Of various
capacities.
One starch cooker.
Forty suitably arranged sorting Ia.
Sles, each X 10 feet, and to be OF high
ly finished concrete placed on galyan-
lzed iron pipe frames.
WASHING IN CANVAS BAG.
Each table is to be assigned TO an In.
, dividual laundryman, or laundry, for
J the necessary time per week. To the
table, as now to the wash house, he is
10 bring the articles to be washed. It
vs. now the custom to mark or tag each
article and to sort In some degree be.
fore delivering to the Government
wash house.
, II is proposed that all articles shall
be properly graded by the individual
laundrymen under the oversight of in.
spectors-that each grade belonging TO
= each laundryman shall be placed in a
+ strong, coarse mesh canvas bag OF
!. bags; that each bag shall be number
ed; that a receipt shall be given for
: each bag when delivered to the wash
ing machines or attendants; that &C
oording to the operation necessary the
. bags shall be delivered to the washing
machines assigned to that particular
work.
y When the washing is completed the
bags are TO be transferred to the eX
tractors and the articles dried therein
When dried the bags are to be return
4. ed TO the proper sorting table IRON
whence they came, and the receipt TAX
en- up. This method Is In daily use, II
practical and efficient, avoids all de
tail or responsibility for single arti
Giles, and, ampliiied as suggested abov,
renders the establishment Of a govern
ment .upto-date cleansing plant posi-
BILE, desirable and economical.
THE LAUNDRYMAN.
Collects his articles from his Gus
toners, marks or tags them, sorts then
at his place of business or as indicated
above, transfers them to the Govern
ment wash house, delivers and re
ceives the articles In bags, when wash
ed and received he examines them OF
the sorting table, and is there proyid
ed with fixed facilities for perfectinl
the cleansing of any spots needing spe
cial attention; he can starch articles
at the table, II he so desires; he theT
removes his wash as now to his Mac,