Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-04
SANITARY
Commission
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"NC cannot afford tn be- UuarauDiu.
cd and left out Ol tho Pacific EXuu, III
mcnts for sanitation like those In the
canal zone prove Of great economic
value.
"ln Hawaii money has been spent
for other things but not TO educate tgr|
public mp in health matters.
"ThC power Of our Board Of Health
is sometimes ample for steady, even
operation, then again II finds it's load
beyond its power
we are pumping from two to three
times the amount of water estimated
as necessary for a town Of our size. We
are indulginE in one OF the most OK.
travaGant bits of municipal folly pos
sihIC, paying for pumping water and
allowing II 10 bC wasted, then paving
for pumping II away as sewage.
Heretofore drains have been built
only to satisfy an immediate need q
method that is certain to cost far
greater sun than is necessary. re-.
Guiring endorsements that could cas-.
lily he avoided and saved If each storm
drain was built rs part of UCinilo
plan.
The officials who cndcavor to pro.
tC"t the public from authorization Of
foods. from poi of poor quality. milk
tha' Kills, and hsh that Is dcComuOscd
arc not supported as they should be. "
Tho conditions existing in the fish.
markets At the present time are also
scored
"Wilhin n few years when people
~" dissatisfied with prcvCuinbIc
deaths from poverty and illness. and
the Coe' Of neglect more will be re-.
cutred not only from the Board uf
Health, but from the courts and III"
] legislature"
ignorance ~ admittedly every.
wrcrc ,hc cause at waste, and cduca
ton is the keynote Of successful
, health work. Therefore much Of the
public money now expended would be
more effective If a small per rnnt. was
spent in nublicity."
Water Supply Failing.
Along the line Of water supply .
startling state al affairs - found ~
exist. Tho report saws:
"By 1910 there wCrc III wells draw.
ing from the supply ana the ar;Csiau
Lowell I'm the CITY Is now only 20 r"Ci
II this can hC depended upon. VIC have
only fifty years supply. We arc
therefore consuming our reserve aud
eating into our principal at about tho
rate Of seven inches each year"
More Water Protection.
The report declares that more pro
lection for the Nuuauu reservoir Is
3 "a. 1.I -.
should be fenced and guarded or con
dcmncd and the use of water from il
prohibited.
I'VE should insist upon cheap wa
ter It saws, but demand that on
present waste be checked or paid for
The number of CosspOOls in III,
city Is severely condemned, and par
ticularly in KakaakO and in tho Liliha
Vineyard runChbowl section.
II is declared that only twO-thirds q
the people are served by sewers AM
at that the system Is OvertaXCd.
Kalihi pumping-plant should be cN
tended and the present trunk systcm
thus helped out.
The dumping of sewage on the rec
IS severely condemned.
Tenement house conditions are sCOr
ed, particularly in NakaakO, and tn
crowded condition OF several section
Is complained of.
In the reclamation Of swGmps III
recommendation is made rnai an o.
ginccr study, report and formula'
plans for drainage.
Il Is in'imatcd that Congress wi
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