The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-28
CONDITIONS ARE
FOUND VERY BAD
FiSfmarket Needs Some LOOKING
After, and Needs 1t
Right Away.

| Certain foul conditions about the
fishmarket premises on King and Ke
kaulike streets are in need of strict
surveillance of the board of health
In these two big pavilions, from which
thousands of fish are sold daily, are
! filthy conditions which, if maintained
on private premises, would call fol-
severe criticism from the territorial
and county authorities.
| From these pavilions the greater
part of the population Of Honolulu re-
eeives its fish and meat supplies. AL
| though the floors are cemented and are
| washed down nightly, yet the buildings
are in eramped spaces, and filth accu-
| mulates in the narrow alleyways. The
water runways, into which the water
and LIQUID refuse from the fish tables
fall and are supposed to run off, form
traps for the refuse and in these the
stuff lies until it reeks. These runways
empty into catchbasins on the makai
side of the building A visit to this
section of the fshmarket yesterday re
vealed enough filth to turn one $
stomach. The ends of the runways
were eho1ed with dead fish and por-
tions of fish There were heads. tails,
entrais, much of it putrefying. In the
catchbasins the flthiest of stagnant
pools were revealed. not only by the
stencil but by the protruding mass of
filth floating in the scummy liquid.
Collected all about the makai end
of the building were boxes and barrels
containing rotten grapes. rotten cab
bages, and a lot of rotten vegetables
Thousands of flies buzzed over this de-
lectable congl0meratien of filth which
stands within twenty and thirty feet
from the tables where fish are sold
The cement floor was slippery with
scum, which had been tracked in from
near these catchbasins and the lava
tories It was filth tracked in by a
barefooted Chinaman from the lava
tories to the fish stalls which called
for serious objections from a patron.
The inspector s attention was called to
the conditions existing and he endeav-
ored to eradicate the source. but the
filth had already been brought into
the building.
The fshmarket stands at the june
ton of streets which do not add to the
GREATNESS oI the uu tCltu offerings
of fish on the tables. Kekaulike street
is like a funnel, as far as the fish
market is concerned. for the wind
blows down the street and directly
into the market. Into Kekaulike street
japanese BARRIERS throw the dirty
water resulting from their tonsorial
operations. This dries upon the street
and the wind carries it on down to
the fish stalls. Whatever wind there
is adds to the dors.
There are bad ~anitary conditions all
around the two .ishmarkets. The gut
ters do not carA off the street water.
Horses stand at the curbs for hours,
and there is no drainage to speak of.
The back alleys are filed with rubbish.
The right of-wae from King to Queen
street on the Waikiki side Of the G. @.
Yee Hop shops is Uttered with debris
and persons have to walk over private
property instead of along the right
of-way.
The piles of ballast rock littering the
empty lots near by furnish concealed
places in which dozens of men soak
themselves IN the cheap "dago red''
wine bought from saloons in that dis
trict. and they lay around half the
night sleeping off their drunk.
Someone wants to wake up.