The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-10
DISCUSSED A
CRUESOME
MATTER.
CFrom Thursdays Adver,iser)

(From Thursdays Advertiser)
IF potter's field be established in
Honolulu the number OF dead that the
authorities viii be called upon to bury
will increase very many times. such Is
the nature of our population. Let the
people once know that there is such
a place and where we have one body
to bury now. we viii have twenty"
Such is the opinion of DIR. wayson.
expressed at the meeting of the Board
OF Health yesterday afternoon. when
the question Of the extension of the
Makiki cemetery came up. The speak
er was opposed to the extension OF the.
cemetery by one inch. and advocated
the burying of INDECENT dead at Pearl
City.
We'll. where is the money TO come
! FROM" asked President Pinkham.
The money viii have TO come. Put
the issue sQuarely up to the county. 1t
is an outrage that there should exist
such a state Of affairs as there is to-
day. Throw the responsibility on the
ones who should shoulder il; they will
not leave any dead bodies lying around
on the corners-at least, not for very
long"
| President Pinkham explained that at
present the expense was not very large
and was shared up. High Sheriff
Henry furnished the labor for the dig
ging Of graves. the county supplied
boS-coffins. and the Board of Health
supplied the dead wagon. II the mat
ter were left to the board entirely. the
bodies would be cremated. but many
Of the poorer people object TO that
system
The gruesome subject was brought
up partly through a petition from res
idents of Makiki that no enlargement
OF the Makiki cemetery be allowed. and
partly through q communication from
Manager BallenJyne OF the Rapid
Transit Company. who offered 10 go to
the expense of sinking fifty test pits
in the Bishop Estate land al Moiliili
TO determine the fitness of that sec
ton as a cemetery site. The idea OF
this was. according TO the expressed
niea of President Pinkham, that pri-
vate corporation was contemplating es-
tablishing a cemetery there if suitable
land could be found and the Board Of
Health was agreeable. Both the petit
ton and communication We're filed. TO
be taken up later at a special meeting
OF the board. at which the whole GEM
etery question will be taken up.
LOWERING POLICE AND ATTOR-
NEYS.
During the meeting there were a
number OF interruptions. Chief Taylor
and Special Policeman Reeves appear
ing in the hail and confabbing with
Secretary Charlock, being followed
very shortly afterwards by Attorney
Ashford, who hung around the open
door with blood in his eye. The po-
lice and attorney were interested in
the arrest OF suspect to be taken to
the Kalihi station. and the name Of
Atcherley was whispered back and
forth in the discussions.
BAD CONDITIONS IN HILO.
4 report from a special committee
of the HiIo Board of Trade respecting
the disgraceful and unsanitary con-
ditions Of the government buildings in
Hilo was read and filed away for fu-
ture action. The report denounced
roundly the disgraceful. deplorable di-
lapidated and unsanitary condition OF
these buildings and recommended their
removal or Improvement The build
ings complained Of are on Bridge and
Volcano streets
RAT-CATCHING CAMPAIGN.
The routine reports presented show
that the chase after rats in Honolulu
and Hilo is keeping up and producing
results in the shape Of dead fiea-scat-
terers. In the two months last past
twenty-three hundred and odd rats
have been accounted for that the in
spectors know Of. while several hun
dred pieces Of poisoned food have been
eaten by rats that went of to die
where their remains could not be num-
bered. All these found. with the ex-
ception Of less than hundred, were
killed on Oahu.
FREE DISPENSARY WORK
During the past two months, accord
ing TO the monthly statistics. the num-
Der Of cases treated at the government
was 1903, Of whom SOB were
Portuguese. The Hawaiians. the next
TO employ the county ply
s.cian, numbered 127. In addition 10
the medical cases for the two months,
the dispensary staff treated the eyes
Of 1899 cases. In all, the representa-
tives OF twenty natiOnalities called for
treatment at the dispensary each
month. these being Portuguese, Hawai-
an, Korean, Porto Rican, Spanish,
Part Hawaiian, negro. Chinese. Japa-
lese, American, German, Filipino, Ga
acian, Cuban, irish, British, Dane,
Turk, Arab and Norwegian, given in
he order Of the number calling, there
having been one each Of the last five