The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-23
lilLO IN FOR A SliAKE-Up AND A
CLEANUP IN HEALTH MATTERS
Aggressive Sanitary Campaign Planned for the
Big sIand..-tiIO viii Be Made
Free Of the Mosquito Pest.
(Maii Special to Tho Advortlser.J

(Mail Special to The Advcrtiscr)
HlLO. June lG.-Rcginning on July
], sanitary campaign win be begun
In HilD, the like Of which has never
boon seen here before. First Of all,
there will be a general shakeup i'm the
stat Of the department, and several
gentlemen who have been taking life
rather too easy will find their places
takca " new appointeos. In addition
TO Aeso there viii be several new posi-.
items created, as the additional appro-
pfntiops made by the legislature for
the coming biennial period will make
this possible. Finally, tho new rules
aud regulations which the board of
health was authorized by the legislature
TO make and enforce will become effect
i've in July, when thorough mosquito
and rat campaign viii be instituted,
and when it is probable that deter
mined steps will be taken to eradicate
several old nuisances which have ex.
listed for years here.
Chief Inspector Bowman stated yes
terday that hereafter EIilo was to be
the center of the activities of the board
of health of this Island. While the
town had not been neglected in the
past, and it had been kept clean by
the health authorities, with the aid and
advice of the shippers wharf commit
tee, ii was now becoming so important
a shipping point that it was imperative
that every possible sanitary precaution
be taken. Furthermore, provision had
been made for the appointment of tw o
district supervising inspectors, one of
whom will supervise the work of the
health inspectors in the Hilo, Puma and
Hamakua districts, while the other will
look alter the districts on the leeward
side of the Island. Inspector Joe
Caceres, who has been Bowman s right
hand man in Hilo for number of
years, will be the district inspector for
this side of the Island while the i'm
speetor for the Kona side is yet to be
appointed.
The appointment of these two in
spectors will give Chief Bowman more
time to devote to Office work and to
the sanitation of Hilo town proper, al
though he will, of course retain a gem
eral supervision of the work all over
the Island, and will take charge
wherever an emergency may arise.
War on Skeeters.
"There is one piece of sanitary work
which must be done, and which we will
devote great efforts to accomplish, and
that is the stamping out of the mos
quito plague in Hilo town. said Bow
man. at is imperative that Hilo be
freed from mosquitoes by the time the
Panama Canal is opened. When that
happens Hilo will become the great port
of call for vessels coming from the
will stop here for fresh provisions,
water and fuel, rather than 90 out of
their way to Honolulu. Even IL the
Canal Zone is kept free from mosqui-
toes, many Of these vessels may have
called at mosqutO-infected ports on
their way, and may bring the yellow
fever carrying mosquito here.
"We intend to establish a mosquito.
free zone about mile and a half in
radius around HilO, and we will make
conditions in this radius such that no
mosquito can breed therein. The con-
sequence will be that what mosquitoes
may enter the zone from the outside
will only hang about the edges, and
they will not multiply, making the
source of danger from them practically
negligible.
"In spite of all skeptieism, feel
certain that it is quite possible to free
Hilo from mosquitoes, and, what is
more, we are going to do it. AS a
matter of fact, we will have consid-
cradle difficulties to contend with,
owing mainly to our frequent and pro-
longed rains, which keep water stand
ing in pools, cutters and other con-
tainers.
A SCOT Nuisance.
"Of all our difficulties that presented
by the cutters leading water from the
roofs, is by far the worst, partly be-
cause it will be hard to control and also
because the day mosquito, which is the
infection carrier, likes to lay its eggs
in artificial containers. In this respect
there is one trouble we have had to
contend with right here in town, and
that is, that caused by the SCOT coming
from the Hawaii Mill Company's mill.
There are no SCOT screens, and as q
consequence the SCOT flies all over the
town for a radius of five or six blocks
from the mill, according to the direc.
ton Of the wind. The SCOT settles on
the roof. whence the rains wash il
into the cutters. 1t is sticky and forms
little dams which soon clog the water
pipes and cutters, with the result that
numberless mosquito incubating pools
| are formed which ara hard IN loaafa an a