The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-07
DISCUSSED A
GRUESOME MATTER
Continued from Page one.)

President Pinkham explained that al
| present the expense was not very large
and was shared up. High Sheriff
Henry furnished the labor for the dig
cling of graves, the county supplied
| box collins and the Board of Health
| supplied the dead wagon. If 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 communication from
| Manager Ballentyne of the Rapid
! Transit Company, who offered to go to
| the expense of sinking fifty test pits
in the Bishop Estate land at Moiliili
to determine the fitness of that sec
ton as a cemetery site. The idea of
this was, according to the expressed
idea of President Pinkham, that a pri-
waite 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 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 We're a
number of Interruptions, Chief Taylor
and Special Policeman Reeves appear
ing in the hall 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 We're interested in
the arrest of a 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.
A report from a special committee
of the Hilo Board of Trade respecting
the disgraceful and unsanitary con-
tiitions of the government buildings in
Eilo 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 flea 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 off 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.
The mosquitoes also are being per-
sistently hunted down, 5000 top min
nows having been turned loose to prey
on the larvae, while breeding places
haNe been oiled over or destroyed to
the number of several hundred.
FREE DISPENSARY WORK.
During the past two months, accord
ing to the monthly statistics, the num-
Der of cases treated at the government
dispensary was 1908, of whom 500 were
Portuguese. The Hawaiians, the next
numerous to employ the county ply
stefan, numbered 127. In addition to
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-
ian, Korean, Porto Rican, Spanish, |
Part Hawaiian, negro Chinese, Japa-
nese, American, German, Filipino, Ga
lacian, Cuban, Irish, British, Dane,
Turk, Arab and Norwegian, given in
the order of the number calling, theret
having been one each of the last five
named