The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-19
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and not confined to a single house or
/ class OF houses. a more detailed report
would contain many SPECIFIC instances
/ of defects found in particular houses
FOUND THE YARDS FILTHY.
T.-CONDITION OF THE YARDS
! Before entering the buildings we noted
the condition of the yards themselves
as shown in the pavement, pens, VIA
ducts and platforms. The pavement is
mostly of brick, the bricks laid with
deep grooves between them, which in
evitably fill with manure and refuse.
Such pavement cannot be properly
cleaned and Is Shiny and malodorous
! when wet. yielding clouds of ill-smell-
ing dust when dry. The pens are gen
orally uncovered except those for sheep
these latter are paved and covered. The
viaducts and platforms are of wood.
. Calves, sheep and hogs that have died
en- route are thrown out upon the plat
forms where cars are unloaded. on a
single platform on one occas on we
counted fifteen dead hogs, on the next
ten dead hogs. The only excuse given
for delay in removal was that so often
heard-the expense.
! FLOORS OF BUILDINGS SHINY.
III BUILDINGS MATERIAL.-The
interior finish of most of the buildings
! is of wood; the partition walls, sup
/ ports and rafters are of wood, uncov-
cred by plaster or cement. The floor
ing in some instances is of brick or
cement, but usually of wood. In many
/ of the rooms where water is used free
! ly the floors are soaked and shiny.
"LIGHTING.-The buildings have
been constructed with little regard to
either light or ventilation. The work.
rooms. as a rule, are very poorly light
ed. A few rooms at the top of the
! buildings are well lighted because they
cannot escape the light, but most of the
/ rooms are so dark as to make artificial
! light necessary at all times Many
! inside rooms were food is prepared are
without windows, deprived of sunlight
and without direct communication with
/ the outside air They may be best des-
cribed as vaults in which the air rare
! ly changes. Other rooms which open to
the outer air are so large. the windows
/ SO clouded by dirt and the walls and
! ceilings so dark and dingy that natural
! light only penetrates twenty or thirty
| feet from the windows, thus making ar
| tificial light in portions of even these
( outside rooms necessary. These dark
and dingy rooms are naturally not kept
suitably clean.
/ "VENTILATION-S Systematic Venti-
lation of the workCooms is not found
lin any of the establishments we visit
ed In Il few instances electric fans
mitigate the sitting air, but usually the
workers toll without relief i'm humid
, atmosphere heavy with the odors of
rotten wood, decayed meats sinking
offal and entrails.
WOODEN RECEPTACLES ARE
DIRTY.
EQUIPMENT work tables up
on which the meat is handled, the floor
! carts on which it is carried about and
the tubs and other receptables into
which it is thrown, and the tubs and
other receptacles into which it is
thrown are generally of wood. In all
the places visited but single porcelain
/ lined receptacle was seen. Tables COW
cred with sheet iron, iron carts and
/ iron tubs are being introduced into
the better establishments, but no es-
! Establishment visited has as yet aban-
doned wooden receptacles. These wood
EN- receptacles are frequently found
water soaked, only half-cleansed and
with meat scraps and grease accumula-
tions adhering to their sides and col
lecting dirt This is largely true of
meat racks and meat conveyors of
every sort, which were i'm nearly all
/ cases inadequately cleansed, and grease
and meat scraps were found adhering
to them, even after they had been
, washed and returned to service.
SANITARY CONDITIONS SHOCKING
SANITARY CONVENIENCES. -
! Nothing shows more strikingly the gen.
eral Indifference to matters of cleanli-
ness and sanitation than do the privies
! for both men and women. The pre-
vailing type is made by cutting off a
section of the workroom by a thin
wooden partition rising to within few
feet of the ceiling. These privies usu-
ally ventilate into the work room,
/ though a few are found with a window
/ opening into the corners of the work
rooms and thus have no outside open
/ ing whatever. They are furnished with
! a row of seats, generally without even
side partitions. These rooms are some
times used as cloakrOoms by the en-
/ ployes. LunchroOms constructed in
! the same manner, by boarding off a
section Of the workruom often adjoin
the priyies, the odors of which add to
the general insanitary state of the at
mosphere.
! ABSENCE OF LAVATORY PROVI-
SIONS
Accountable as the above named
conditions are tile one that affects
most directly and seriously the clean
illness Of the food products is the fire.
quent absence of any lavatory provi-
sions in the prvies. Washing sinks
are either not furnished at all or are
small and dirty Neither are towels,
soap or toilet paper provided. Men and
women return directing from these
! "a and Y,lupga thoi- y,.o ,a1