The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-19
60 AHEAD WITH
HEALTH PROGRAM


Yesterday morning M. Mott Smith
and Doctor Pratt, In company with Guy
Gere, city and county engineer, and j.
j.. Miehlstein, city and county plumb.
ing inspector, visited Waipahu for the
purpose Of laying out a sewerage and
water system there.
The present facilities are entirely
inadequate, said Mr.. Mott.Smith.
and in some places there conditions
exist which are a continuing menace
to the public health. The sewerage
project viii probably cost in the
neighborhood Of 10000; the water we
have not estimated for yet.
For that / am about TO ask the sur
vey office to give Us a survey Of the
place, showing the levels and the con
tour. As soon as that is procured the
city and county engineer win take up
the detailed plan Of laying out the
sewerage line, etc.
For Cleanup Day.
tWhat is the status of the plans for
cleanup dayi'' he was asked.
81 have asked Emil Berndt. who is
chairman Of the central committee of
the various improvement clubs in the
city, to organize a citizens committee.
which will be put in full charge of
cleanup day. In other words, the
plans for that day, and the carrying
out of them, will be under the entire
charge of citizens committee and
not of that of any governmental de-
partment.
I On that day the entire board of
health, with its inspectors and other
men, will be subject to the orders of
that committee, which will include ad.
ministrative officers up to the president
of the board.
This matter was also discussed at
the meeting of the territorial and city
and county health officials. The health
] committee of the county, and the gar.
bage department with ali its employees,
and the road department, will be subject
to the orders of the committee on clean.
up day.
IL IS intended, also, that that COM
mittee shall have charge of all private
utilities that are offered; for instance
OF drays and carts lent by drayage and
express companies.
Concerns the People.
This matter is essentially a citi.
zens' matterY SO that every person will
have an interest in participating in il
and everybody will get out and work.
1t rs expected that on that day every.
body will take his coat off and do
what the citizens committee assigns
him.
This committee, after it has effect.
ed its organization, win probably an
point number of subcommittee and
divide the city into districts. Efforts
viii be made to SO organize as to bring
every person into it. -
Has any date been decided upon Z -
The date is for the citizensi com
mittee to fix, I" said Mr.. Mott-Smith
"This is the sort of thing which Is
being carried out by good many towns
on the mainland and therefore there is
a good precedent established for it
When once the city is clean in that way
1t will beyvery much easier for the
regular forces of the board of health
and of the city and county to keep il
clean.
| GIVE have had cleanup days here be
fore. AT the time of the outbreak Of
cholera in 1895 and of the outbreak OF
plague in 1900 we had cleanup DAYS
On both these occasions the peopl,
turned out, cleaned up rubbish. disin
fected premises, whitewashed, burned
rubbish in the streets, or carted i
away, as the case might be, and CAV,
the city a general cleaning up.
THE success of the day depends
upon the enthusiasm with which tn,