Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-25
A LESSON FROM The CHOLERA
OF 1895.

No community is alarmed that is
always on guard, and it is to be
hoped that Honolulu is always in this
position.
Honolulu is threatened on every
side. 1t must be constantly yigilant
We believe it is.
While the present cholera situation
is being handled promptly and eff
fectiyely, the Bull re tin begs to call
attention to certain manifest neces-
stiles Of making this city the Gibral
tar of the Pacific for good health us
we'll as for the armed defense of the
country.
Many Of our citizens will recall the
conditions obtaining along Nuuanu
stream and in that part of the city
| known as Chinatown when Honolulu
experienced a visitation of cholera in
! 1895.
For months the authorities of the
then Republic of Hawaii, the owners
Of estates, and the small holders of
property had been warned that the
conditions existing along that stream
and in that part of the city were dan
gerous, a constant menace to the
health of the population and the abil
| of a To hhi
regular business anhampered by the
disastrous interference Of quarantine
and measures to check an epidemic.
But those warnings were of little
avail. The people had to be hit fair
and square with the club of cholera
before they walked up
When they were finally aroused,
they rounded to in great shape
The Republic appropriated money
| for properly combining the water Of
| Nuuanu stream, for dredging and fill
ing for sensible sanitary measures
| that should have been carried on and
everyone knew should have been car
ried On months and years before.
| The wealthy estates that were draw
ing dividends from shacks, built de-
cent houses and made the surround
ings sanitary. The small property
holders did the same.
That's what was done whom the
people who were complaining of high
taxes and too much government
they did it then as nowhere brought
| right down to the inevitable and had
to fight an epidemic, face to face.
We know of no place in Honolulu
today that equals the lower part of
| Nuuauu stream as it was in 1895, but
there are many things to be done
now for better sanitation in this city
| that are just as necessary to the as
sured health and continued prosper
Gus business of this city, as the clean
up of '95 was to Honolulu of that
day
In those DAYS many Of our first
citizens didn't realize that the city
of Honolulu extended beyond the linn
its of the Capitol grounds and the
corner of Fort and King streets
Some haven't got far beyond that
limit yet, At least they complain of
the cost of necessities for the up
building of a progressive city in a
manner that suggests their inability
to understand anything but one per
cent tax and no increase of bond is
sues
Within recent months the commu-
nifty has been repeatedly reminded,
urged and admonished that in conse-
quence of the growth of the city, and
increasing dangers resulting from
closer and more frequent communica-
ton with the Orient and Central and
Southern American ports, vigorous
measures should be instituted to clean
up the swamps, the ponds, the
ranches, the patches and even the
small rice plantations around which
the city has swarmed in its steady eX-
pansion-these things must be done
if Honolulu is to exercise the ordi-
nary precaution that might be ex-
pected from an intelligent and solvent
community.
What Is the objection raised to do
ding all that should be done?
No noisy objection of course.
But there is a smothering dead
weight opposition to operations by
the propar authoritioc TINT will oo