The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-28
.DISAGREE ON the
BRAND OF BROOM
TWO DEPARTMENTS WANT 10
CLEAN UP PANAMA. BUT
EACH HAS PLANS

loudly announced Of late and 80 wide.
ly discussed, have been enlivoned by
q dispute rs TO how this much desired
end can be brought about. Instead OF
remaining mostly discussion with no at.
tempt at action whatever, there are
now two different plans before che
authorities, the advoetes Of each all OK.
trcmeiy anxious to sec their schemes
actually executed and their inertia dis.
played
The best way Of cleaning up Kalihi
and Palnma and making livable city
out of it instead of possible plague
lspot and menace to the health Of the
rest Of the city is the disputed subject.
One plan is advocated by the depart
ment Of public works and the other by
the board of health Senator A. T..
Judd, who, through letters to the Gov
ernor FIRST called official attention to
the disgraeeful conditions obtaining
there, Is said to be the spokesman Of
the board of health in the legislature.
Judd has already introduced the
sanitary commission bill in the senate
calling for a commission Of five 70
make an investigation and report on it
with recommendations, but the general
concelsus of opinion is that there has
been already too much investigation
and not enough action.
Whether the matter of cleaning up
these districts Of the city and intro
dueing the metropolitan improvements
urgently needed win be left to this
commission or whether the legislature
viii direct some Of its volcanic energy
towards patching up this disgrace, re-
mains to be seen. At the present time
4 there does not seem to be any bill in
sight for this purpose.
1 At the End Of the Rope.
just how long this section Of the city
will be able to support careless and
Indifferent oriental aud Hawaiian popu-
lation without making its frightfully
unsanitary conditions felt throughout
the city is matter of doubt. No sta
tisties have been gathered as to how
many inhabitants the districts have, but
what there are are grouped together in
the oldest tenements Of any in the city.
1 There is no sewerage or roads in the
greater part of the districts. Most of
the thoroughfares outlined ON the. map
are gentle fietions, owing to their origin
in surveyor office, where proposed
lines are inserted together with real
ones with beautiful impartiality.
No roads means no garbage collect
ing, as the back lot sections in this dis
trict can not be reached by the garbage
wagons, and the accumulated waste
animal and vegetables therefore
dumped in the fields where Honolulu's
vegetables are grown or in the streams
where good deal of its laundry is
washed.
What no sewers means is something
that can take on7woFse aspects the more
the situation is considered.
Conflicting Plans.
The attention of the board of health
seems to be directed towards opening
this district, and particularly that sec
tion immediately in the neighborhood
of Lifiha street, with view of using
the streets TO introduce the sanitary
improvements regarded as absolutely
necessary for the preservation Of
health.
The intentions Of the public works
department are based on a comprehen-
sive system of streets, transforming an
apology for a municipal district into a
well regulated and. symmetrical one
The former understanding between the
two departments seems to have suffered
break, and unless compromise is Of
. fered soon viii probably result in end
less, and probably fatal, delay in OBJ
tanning the necessary legislation.
Tapping CLOSED Districts.
According to plans of the board of
health, properly constructed city streets
will be run into the districts Offering
the worst features to the sanitary in
spectOrs. This applies TO the district
directly Eva of Liliha street which is
chiefly one of large tarO patches and
vegetable fields.
This district was the subject of re-
port recently made to the superintend-
ent of public works by one of the
departments agents delegated TO make
the preliminary surveys. According to
that report, the gist of which has al
ready been published by The Adyer-
tissr, the conditions in this district are
frightful from sanitary standpoint.
The section is laid out in such a man,
liner that the board of health claims
that IL is unable to reach it and cor
rect the evils.
There is absolutely no sewerage con-
neetions and the filth of the district is
carried off. either by direct disposition
or through seepage, by the numerous
streams which meander down and
eventually pass through more crowded
districts and out at Kalihi bay.
Could Be Worse.
Bad as they are, and without present
remedy, as they are claimed to be, it
is stated that interference with present
arrangements until a proper sewerage
\ system is installed, would result in con
ditions so much worse that the district
would become veritable plague spot
Of stern reality and no hyperbole.
The board Of health asserts that IL
it ordered the owners to destroy the
outrageous insanitary nuisances now
existing, as it has the power to do, it
would leave the district without any
system whatever. The only thing
which could be done to alleviate mat
tiers would be TO remove the inhab.
itants Of the district altogether, as be-
ing a place unfit for residence. This
measure is palpably impossible.
The Remsdy.
The board Of health offers as a rem.
edv for this evil in this DartieuIar dis