The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-04
HEALTH NEEDS

NOOuIluuGu from rage one.
blow, but, with over one-third of the
area of the city used for this purpose,
it soon became evident that it must
lie accomplished by easy stages. The
method must be to make such lands
too valuable for such uses, and this
must be done by drainage, more
streets, and more stringent rules for
regulating the business.
Swamp Lands.
The problem of freeing the city
from the menace of undrained lands,
Governor Carter said, had received
much attention, but the board did not
feel that it could make specific recon-
mendations in the matter. The cost
must be great, and the work can not
be done at once. Therefore it is rec
commended that an expert engineer be
employed to work out the plan No
haphazard work should be done in
the future, but everything should be
toward one end.
opening streets.
The city is at present tied hand and
foot, Governor Carter said, in the mat
ter of getting streets opened, by legal
technicalitites and unavoidable laws.
The Legislature can not be expected
to appropriate money from the COM
mon fund for doing such work in Ho-
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if not entirely by the property own
ers benefited, and the increased value
of property would stimulate other
sections to try the same plan. A ma
iority of the property owners affected,
should have the right to force a
street to be opened through any sec
ton. At present some blocks con-
tain as high as twenty-one acres, and
are inaccessible for fire protection,
sewers, or most other public purposes.
They should be broken upr
Water Works.
The commission did not recon-
mend, the universal adoption of a wa
ter meter system, but did recommend
that meters be placed on all connec-
tons not absolutely for domestic pur-
poses No limit of check should be
put on water that might be used for
domestic cleanliness, but all other
sorts of waste should be checked.
Food Protection.
Much attention was paid to dairies
and other sources of food supply and
to the care of food products, by the
commissions report. 1t was recon-
nended that diaries be compelled to
use only city water, or water which
had been analysed and approved by
the health department. All forms of
sickness occurring among families of
those connected with diaries should
| by law be required to be reported i'm
, mediately. The protection of foods
l should be more carefully safeguarded,
( and a system of popular education
l undertaken to aid in this work
Garbage.
+ The sixth recommendation was
a that a free garbage service should be
I established within certain areas of the
n city to be established. That othel
S parts might be served by payment o
fees to cover costs. That all refuse
d should be handled only in cOEta.ner
k officially endorsed and furnished a
d cost by the Board of Health Tha
s. the shlftless citizen must be taugn
il that he has no right to lie filthy q
the expense of the community, an
S that effort be made to teach the K
s. sponsibiity of individuals to the res
s. of the community,
n Tenements.
d The tenements of Honolulu came
for unmerciful condemnation at IL
,r hands of the commission. Some
It. them were likened to pig styes. A
a, tenement house commission was re
D., commended to study a plan for ten
* ments which shall meet sanitary al
at moral requirements.
Publicity
ne The commission strongly urged pu
ST. icity in all things connected with Il
Mt health of the community, The pu
is lie should have no excuse for not
w. ing fully informed on all matters
nd fecting the sanitary condition of t
re- city. A law is recommended requ
ing the Board of Health to publish
i'll monthly bulletin of all matters OF Il
lrl kind, for free distribution alnons pi
at sicians, teachers, and others.
Is What Can Be Saved.
six The commission made the startli