The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-15
THE WAR On SIN
DIRT AND DEATH
What Board of Health Agencies
Did During Month of
September.

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Duncan TO the Board of Health. O
1O2 samples, 100 were above standar,
and only two below standard. Thes
were one from the Hong Sing Ching
restaurant and the other from tn,
Philippine restaurant. Both were
heavily watered. The Food Commits
sioner says:
Practically all the dairies are nov
in good condition and capable of fur
nishing clean milk. Three or four
however, are in poor condition, and il
not placed in sanitary condition soon
active measures against these will have
to be taken.
Fifteen samples of poi obtained
from Honolulu manufacturers were ex-
amined and no adulteration detected.
1.-TWO samples of olive oil were ana
lived and found to be pure.
Food condemned as unfit for food:
10 cans fish, $40 pounds fresh and evap-
grated fruit. -
Dispensary Work.
Dispenser Nugent of the City Dis
pensary reports the number of cases
treated during September, 532-medical
253, surgical 279; number of prescrip-
lions filed, 235; number of eye eases
treated, 343. BY nationalities: fPortu-
guese, 2S3; Hawaiian, so; Korean, 40;
Spanish, 80; Porto Rican, %; Ameri.
can, %; part Hawaiian, 10; Chinese,
Il; negro, 10; Swede, 6; British, So
japanese, 8; German, 2; Australian, 1.
The Mosquito Campaign.
The progress of the mosquito cam
paign is thus reported on by DIR. j.
s. b. Pratt for the month of Septem-
Der:
Cesspools oiled, 72O; privy vaults
oiled, $50; holes and low places oiled,
1858; swamps oiled. 81; ponds oiled, 5;
Catchbasins oiled, 251; receptacles con-
tanning water turned over, 631; loads
tin cans, bottles, etc, removed to dump,
4S 1-2; gallons oil used, 651.
Eleven complaints in regard to mos
quitoes were received and investigated,
all the breeding places with the excep
tion of one being located and abol-
ished
The increase in the amount of work
done during the latter part of the
month was due to two men having been
added to the force.
Improvement has been noted by the
residents of nearly every district, par.
ticularly those in which we have been
enabled to cover the ground at least
once in every ten days.
Work Across the Pail.
DIR. J. S. B. Pratt, general health and
sanitary officer, made the following re-
port of his work for the month of Sep
TENDER, to the Board of Health yester-
day:
Regular weekly visits were made to
the Koolaupoko district, and all places, |
with the exception of Waimanalo, Wis !
tied. The health of the district was |
good. Treatment was con
tinued in twelve old cases, and there
were fifteen new patients; eightylthree !
house visits were made and seven of /
five visits. The number of miles trav
eled and seeing patients were go, not !
including six trips over the Pail. Su- !
pervision of the fish markets has been |
carried on.
Fruits Condemned.
The following fruits and vegetables J.
were condemned as unfit for food: /
Apples, 2GS; breadfruit, II; grapes, |
pounds, SO; mountain apples, 80; I
oranges, 426; pears, 551; waterlemons,
10; alligator pears, PSI; cucumbers,
l79; luau, punches, 10; onions, Cali
fornia, pounds, 1l2; pumpkins, 45; to-
pounds, 401; bananas, hands,
342; figs, 236; lines, 4S4; muskmelons,
Pos; papayas, 235; pineapples, $50;
az cabbages, 2S2; let
-uce, punches, 1876; onions, lunches,
POI; potatoes, pounds, 107; squash, 81;
lunches, 129.
The Waikiki Swamps.
In regard to the Waikiki swamps,
Sanitary Officer Venhuizen made the
report to the Board of Health
1t it's meeting yesterday:
attention has again been called to
he foul Odors from the Waikiki
,wamps, particularly so near Ena road,
md thorough investigation and per
;onai inspection has been made of the
whole locality. The greater nuisance
has been located, where tract of
about six acres has become OvergrOwn
With marsh grass and vegetation which
5 more or less III state OF uecOm-
owing to the lack of proper
lIainage Instructions given for bet
err drainage are now being carried
nut. :"
Collins Exposed.
In regard to other matters, the sani
AIRY officer reports:
There were ten recommendations for
hotels, restaurants and lodging house
licenses issued and 635 persons can be
awfully lodged in the buildings Ii
.ensed
There were forty-three inspections of
graves made. and four collins were ex
posed in the digging of these graves.
During the month twelve buildings
awe been connected with the public
sewer.
The Rat Campaign.
The rat campaign continues vigor
,usly, and the average of nearly a
thousand rats a week is maintained
with cost per rat varying from eleven
% twelve cents. During September s.
T3l rats were killed. Of these 211 were
Nus rattus, 80 were Mus Norvegicus,
80 were Mus Alexandricus, and 507
we're Mus museulus