The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-23
kauai ADOPTS
BOARDS PLANS
Garden Island Puts Compre.
hensive System Into Effect
at Once.

With unanimous vote, the plants
tion managers of Kauai last wednes-
day accepted the proposals and plans
of the board of health for a general
sanitary system covering the entire
Garden Island. President Pratt of the
board of health and it's federal ad-
visor, DIR. g. w. Mccoy, returned yes
terday from Nawiliwii with the de-
tails of the agreement and a general
report on conditions as they now exist
on Kauai.
The sanitary inspecting party, con.
sisting of Doctors Pratt, Mccoy and
Shepherd, arrived at Eleele last We'd
nesday morning and at once went to
Lihue whore the early morning was
spent in going over some of the planta
ton camps under the guidance of Man
ager Weber of the Lihue Plantation.
The meeting between the officials and
the managers took place at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon of the same day in
Manager Weber's office.
Doctor Pratt went over his plans
which had previously been submitted
to the managers in order that they
might acquaint themselves with the de-
tails, and later Doctor Mccoy spoke on
sanitation matters in general, and of
the success resulting on the Island of
Hawaii from practically the same sys-
TEN. After brief discussion in which
many questions were put to Doctor
Pratt and answered the matter of ac-
cepting the board IS plans was put to a
question and carried unanimously. The
only manager then on the island who
was not present was Manager Myers of
the Kilauea Plantation, who was I'M
able to attend.
The Plans.
The plans which have now been put
in effect on Kauai provide primarily
for system of sanitary inspection
which is to be maintained by the
plantations and commissioned and
directed by the board of health. Each
plantation will appoint its inspector,
who will perform his work under the
same powers and with the same duties
before him as have the government
inspectors in Honolulu. He is to de-
wise garbage systems, enforce sanitary
laws, etc.
Before this system goes into effect
and is trained into smooth working
order, a general sanitary campaign has
III a. al
the same lines as did the Honolulu
cleanup which was such vast success
last year. With the plantation camps
and settlements on the islands once
thoroughly clean it will be the duty of
the inspectors to see that they are
kept in that way in the future.
DR.. Pratt, upon his last visit to the
Garden Island, made when he was the
general health officer of the board,
gathered the data and sketched out the
plans which were put into effect last
week.
Already in Effect.
The work of cleaning up the island
commenced at once. The inspecting
party, which included Chief Sanitary
Inspector Cook of Kauai, spent the
next three or four days going from
plantation to plantation and from
camp to camp and even by that time
the managers had already set the
sanitary gangs to work.
After the meeting the inspectors
went to the Kilauea Plantation where
they had talk with Manager Myers.
From there they went to Hanalei where
they spent the night and from there
visited Kealia, coming back to Lihue
IN the evening. Friday morning they
took in the main camps of Koloa and
three camps at McBryde and then
proceeded to Knudsen 8.
From Knudsen's place they went to
Kekaha, then to Waimea and finally to
the Makaweli Sugar Company's planta-
ton.
Some camps are so situated that the
sewerage problems will be easy of
solution, /" said Doctor Pratt last night,
"but Others are differently placed and
it will take careful thought to provide
for them. The plan is to draw up
complete plan of sanitation for each
camp before commencing work on it
and then to fix them up, one by one,
until they have it up to the plans.
Some of the managers, however, have
not waited for this, but are taking all
of their camps at once. They all APP
pear to be enthusiastic and certainly
have taken the work up with great good
will and energy.
"The Koloa camps, for instance, are
or very fiat land and in such places
as these the sewerage problems are
going to be troublesome. Manager
Wilcox came down on the boat with |
me and told me that he was going to
put his surveyor to work to take the
elevations and prepare contour map
upon which to base a system. / will
have conference with him tomorrow
on the subject.
"Much has already been done. One
manager has his whitewash gangs al.
ready on the rounds and in another
camp gang of fifty men were already