The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-29
Board Of Health Is Preparing for
Unique Census Of
City.
BASIS FOR A BIG CAMPAIGN
To Commence Second Campaign
Of Education as Soon as
Possible.
lFrom saturaay,s Advertiser. }

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
Barring the complete details, Presi-
dent ]. 8. B. Pratt of the board of
health has completed a plan of work |
for his forces which will KEEP them
busy for the next few months with the
best results in the end, these plans IN
cluding those of sanitary census,
with it's preliminary work systematic
sanitary campaign and a campaign Of
education. the three to follow in the
order named.
The actual work under the system
atized routine which has been laid
down is expected TO start the first of
next week. Up to the present time,
dating from the first of July, when
the board of health underwent com
plete reorganization the work of sani-
tary and mosquito inspectors and
great deal of the work of the office
force has been disorganized The ma
jority of the inspectors of both squads
are green to the wor:, and the district
inspectors have been breaking them in
The former chief inspectors have been
assigned TO important work on other
islands and the loss of these to the 10
cal staff has been felt.
On top of these handieaps almost
two thousand license inspections were
suddenly. turned over to the board of
health under the new laws, and this
kept the entire staff busy for the first
month, delaying the work of breaking
the inspectors into their regular duties.
The arrangement OF report blanks and
the systematization of the license in
spection work occupied a great deal of
time of the superior officers of the
board and the full attention of the
board to its normal duties is just be-
coming possible now.
Preliminary Work.
Meanwhile Doctor Pratt has been
carrying on the work preliminary to
She sanitary census This includes the
making Of the most complete maps of
the city which have ever been drawn
and on scale seldom equaled in accu-
Paey. The first instalments of this map,
which covers a portion of Kaimuki,
were presented to the board Of health
at its meeting Wednesday.
&Pery house Is drawn to exact scale
and every cesspool, or other sanitary
utility, is down in its proper place,
properly annotated, the physical char
acter Of each lot is marked in specified
figures and watereourses and other nat
ural features are drawn with PAINS
taking exactness.
The uses of the map in reference
work are easily appreciated If chol.
era case should occur in any one house
in the city, the boards officers would
De able to tell at glance its proxim.
ity to streams and without loss Of
time could draw quarantine lines that
would absolutely safeguard the city
from further contamination from that
particular case. without the panO-
rama view of the situation afforded by
this map, hasty quarantine lines would
have to be drawn that might or might
not serve the purpose.
For Sanitary Census.
The completion of this map will b,
followed at once by the sanitary cen
sus which Doctor Pratt has long wished
to take. The details of this will re
quire the same careful planning as die
eHbHR Va NANah u anu Will lCbul
similarly. The object of Cleanup day
was to clean the city of its accumu
lated rubbish; the object of the censu
the president eontemplates viii be t,
give the board complete data on tn
condition of the city, which is as diff
fieult to arrive at as it is easy to max
a general statement as to that condi
tiOn.
On the data thus gathered and file,
the campaign of sanitation will com
mence with definite objects and movin
in well-regulated channels, a marke,
distinction from the haphazard system
of inspection and correction which
the best that can be obtained from tn
inspection which Honolulu at presen
shares with a number of other large
cities and which, until now the fund
are available, was all that was possible
Once the sanitary census and the san
itaTy campaign have been completed
the city will be clean, in the strietes
meaning of the word; not clean of il
superiluOus rubbish only as was the cas-
after Cleanup day, but with all il
nuisanees abated and its insanitar
spots eradieated. After that the dut
of the inspection force viii be TO kee
IL clean, and for this work this or an
other sanitary force similarly organize
Is ideally equipped. 1t is not fitted I
clean the city in the first place, exceI
by tedious and unsatisfactory method
On Systematic Lines.
Following that campaign, the wol
Of the board of health in Honolulu wi
be reduced 10 It's most systematic lin
aud with the necessity OF constai
supervision on the part Of the exeenti,
officers done away with, Doctor Pra
hopes 10 start his campaign Of educ
tion, 80 be directed az disease by n
education Of the people into ayoidil
and gnppTessing Il, just ~, In the san
way. The sanitation campaign u aims
nf disease by removing its origin
sources.
1hf educational Hork u by far n
most imponaul plan that the hoard
health haa set considered and by 4
fam6 lhien y liable ~ ho she ono
tedious b alnlfaflon. particularly