The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-30

full completion under the kindly patron
age of our supervisors. At the edge
of the taro patches the commission sur
veyed acres upon aeres of flooded lands
through which open bitches wriggled
in and out among the little groups of
houses gathering the sewage to de-
post in the patches along its route.
Here, and in fact, everywhere else
around the city, open privy vaults were
built on the little raised paths between
the patches There are no sewers IN
this part of the city and the conditions
existing are unspeakable.
What Can Be Done.
An example of what the boa-d of
health can do under the new laws was
exemplifed in Camp 8, another of Carl
! On Tai g tenements, situated on School
street. This property was the first
upon which President Mott Smith
served notice under the new nuisance
act which gives the board potential
powers in dealing with just such shacks
as On Tai conducts.
Immediately upon receiving the or
der and ascertaining that this was not
a bluff, but an imperative order, he
burnt off the last remnants of dirty
whitewash ON the shacks and had them
well painted, is now practically reroof'
ing the buildings, is putting in new
plumbing connections and will now be
ordered to tear out all roof-gutters and
] build cement drains under each build
| ing to carry the water off. He has al
ready raked off the accumulated dirt
about the premises and filled in the
land underneath the buildings.
The board of health will apply the
same procedure to Camp 2, and as
leaky roofs in tenements, rickety stars
and numerous other things are now al
declared by law to be common nui
sances there will be a most strenuous
time among our tenement owners IL
the near future.
Worst Place Yet.
One place of unspeakable filth wa
discovered within ten yards of Can :
3. This was three miserable b'lilding'
owned by some Japanese taro growers
The first building was an outbuildinl
alive with maggots, the sight of which
WAS a severe shock to the commission
ers, as it was probably the foules
place they have yet seen. Withi-
three inches of this place ran a dirty
stream that had already made the cir
cult of the taro patches and vegetabl,
fields. After running three feet fur
Their it passed under the kitchen o
the house, the floor of which had beer
torn up and out of this ditch so handy
, the occupants take their water for do
nestle purposes and also wash vege
J tables for market.
/ Running ten feet further it passe
through another shack expressly TO
the purpose of washing vegetables 70
sale. Bunches of yong onions wer
soaking in the filthy water at the tim
the commissioners inspected the prem
, Uses. President Mott-Smith declare
his intention of having this plagu
spot entirely destroyed.
From Camp the party passet
/, through the district drained" by tn
, Asylum road and then to King stree
,, and up the Rice Mill road, whicl
travels through a like neighborhood.
cit is easy enough for us to 81
down and draw up plan for fixing al
this" said Doctor Currie, "but tn
, question is where is the money goint
to come FROM"
Ola CnOleta ConbCt.
2 The Allen Robinson tenement o
} King street, near the Waipilopil
pumping station, and the cottage wher
the case of cholera broke out duril
: the last Of the epidemic, was next in
spected. Here a former inspector o
? the board Of health had built s1I
posedly septic tank which was yer
! Tar from serving its purpose. Thi
! eesspool being only FIVE feet deep, ha
! overlooked, forming a little pond d
! reetly above it, the rest of the over
flow being conducted into the Waip
lopilo stream.
The house where cholera broke gu
7 Is drained directly into this cesspoO
0 and It is significant that just ten day
, after It was discovered there were tw
more fatal eases few hundred fec
down the same stream, both the viz
Tins having either washed clothes !
: Il or waded in it at the time Of tn
other ease.
: "How.7 queried Chairman Carte
care ~ going 10 prevent spidemi,
or fight them with these eOndltionBf
No one answered him.
aianGhtsE H0nbss.
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