The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-08
MOSQUITO MUST
LEAVE HONOLULU
Mott-Smith Plans a Campaion
to Rid the City of the Busy
Midnight Pests.

The mosquito must go. The board
of health and the acting governor have
decreed it and the fate Of the midniobt
pest is decided. An active campaign
is to be instituted against him and Ho.
| nolulu is TO be freed from one of IFS
most irritating and serious drawbacks
Mr. Mott-Smith expects to be able to
get the cooperation of the SINNERS
wharf committee to the tune of about
$1,000 a month, and with this snm Ia
spend, campaign can be started which
the president of the board of health
believes, will be effective not only in
getting rid Of the skeets but also in
greatly improving the sanitary condi-
tons of the city.
Mr.. Mott-Smith stated yesterday af-
ternoon that he had written to the
shippers wharf committee. asking them
II they would go into the campaign to
the extent OF $1,000 month. This. -
said Mr.. Mott-Smith, twill 90 long
way toward an efficient campaign. I'd
to last February the shippers wharf
committee was contributing 1925 a
month toward the mosquito campaign
and 5000 toward the rat campaign. But
before the legislature met it was an
nounced that estimates had been pre-
pared for the cost of the two campaigns
and would be presented to the legisla-
ture, which would be asked to make
corresponding appropriations.
But the legislature failed to appro-
pirate for mosquito campaign, though
it did make an appropriation for rat
campaign. As a consequence about all
the good that has been done in the yav
of clearing the city of mosquitoes has
been lost.
zone thousand dollars will be sufi-
Gent to clear out the mosquitoes from
kaimuki to Fort Shafter and from the
electric light works up Nuuanu valley
to the sea- The campaign will be con-
Quoted under the auspices of the board
OF health, and it is probable that a
separate department will be organized
to handle it.
- Mosquito work is almost synony-
nous with sanitary work, for the breed
ing places of the mosquito are frequent
ly in old piles of trash, damp spots
piles of rotting vegetation and such
other places as are breeding places of
o1oeaoC. ne sanitary anu Ino mosquito
men will cooperate, though there may
be little difference in the districting,
as it is hardly probable that a sanitary
man can cover as much ground as
man.
Part of the work of the mosquito
brigade will be to put oil on pools
about the city and also to clear out the
breeding places, which are frequently
in piles of refuse and in old tin cans.
There is an awful lot of tin cans in
this city. You have no idea how many
are thrown out. Canned goods come to
Honolulu by the carload, for we use
more of that kind of stuff than do most
other places.
eve will try to evolve a plan of
bringing together all the different ele-
ments working toward the same end.
We will get the garbage department,
the superintendent of public works, who
has to do with filing up the low places;
about dozen prisoners to do the heav-
Ter work; the board of health and the
department.
81 think that we can institute cam
palgn that will almost completely rid
Honolulu of mosquitoes -