The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-16
.ALGAE FOUND IN
y KA|MUKI WATER
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ttTom thursdays Advertiser.)
Food Commissioner Duncan yesterday
reported to the Board of Health as fol.
lows:
"The water from the Kaimuki reser-
voir at this time is of marked differ.
ence from the water of the Kaimuki
Pumping Station which supplies the
reservoir. A considerable growth of
algae in the reservoir was noticed and
is the cause of the disagreeable ap.
pearance and contamination of this wa.
ter. -
The board directed that the Superin.
tendent of Public Works be notified of
this condition and be directed to clean
out the reservoir.
When DR.. Golfer was president of the
Board of Health, he issued General
Order No. l, which was a tentative eff
fort to thoroughly systematic and co.
ordinate the different departments of
the work of the Board, and to define
the duties of each employee, sozthat re-
sponsibility could be placed where it
belonged. AT the meeting of the Board
yesterday, President Robinson announc-
eo that this general order had worked
well in a great many particulars, but
that in some particulars friction had
grown out of it, and that revision was
advisable. He suggested that the mat
ter be referred to the Committee on
Rules and Regulations for revision. Ii
was suggested that as the general order
had never been adopted by the Board,
1t could be rescinded by the president
DR.. Wayson thought that as it had
worked well in some particulars that
revision ought to be undertaken in
order to make it workable in those par
ticulars wherein it had not worked well.
In reply to a question from one of the
other members of the Board, he said
that he thought they ought to secure
as well established and orderly meth
DDS of transacting the business OF the
department as possible, and that this
was in that direction. On motion the
matter was, referred to the committee
for revision.
The County Clerk notified the Board
of the passage by the Board of Super
visors of the tenement house ordinance,
copy of the ordinance accompanying
the notice.
DR.. 7. Mitamura notified the Board
that the Japanese Cemetery Association
had opened its cemetery at Moiliili, in
accordance with the rules of the Board.
The secretary of the Board was directed
to secure official notification of the of
fcers of the association, so that the
employees of the Board would know with
whom they were dealing in all matters
connected with the cemetery.
| A letter was received from Superin-
tendent j. d. McVeigh, saying he had
| received letter from DR.. j. II. Ray
mond that the latter, with his party,
would come into the Settlement over
the Pail in order to hold political meet.
ings. He expressed regret that DIR.
Raymond was coming that way, as it
always led to more or less confusion
and the mixing of the lepers with those
who were not lepers The secretary was
instructed to write the superintendent
to say that no pass had been issued to
DIR. Raymond to enter the Settlement
by that route; that the pass issued to
him only permitted him to land at the
Settlement from a steamer, and to re-
main in the visitors corral during the
stay of the steamer at the Settlement.
If DIR. Raymond insists on entering the
Settlement by the pail trail, there may
be trouble.
A request was received from Dr.
Hayes, the new government physician
for Honolulu, to be informed whether
he should require children having ira
choma to remain away from school un-
til they had recovered beyond the dan
ger of spreading infection or not. The
Board by vote instructed him to keep
children out of school until they were
fully recovered.
Fred c. Smith asked if Kahuku plan
tation had done anything yet in regard
to improving the sanitary conditions of
one of the camps which had been found
to be infected with typhoid fever. DIR.
,Wayson said he had been told that they
had, and the matter was referred to
DIR. Pratt to personally investigate and
report. 1t was reported that several
cases of typhoid had broken out in an