Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-01
HEALTH POINTS
| DELAY LICENSE
TOR WATER WORK
loan Fund Commission After
Warm Argument Refers
Issues to Stainback

Stringent provisions imposed in the
license from the land commissioner to
he 0shu pan fund eoinmlsslol. regu-
iatiIg especially the health inspection
or the men TO be employed on the Hill.
lebrand glen water project led 10 a
notitn in meeting today which defers
any award OF contract for the present
and refers the license TO the attorney
general who drew it up and TO the
board Of health for more definite ex-
4 pIanation.
Hct argument over the health ques-
tions brought Up by the reading of the
license formed the basis of the meet
4 ing which took for a time the semb-
lance Of a young physiology class.
| ABOUT the regulation requiring ev-
/ en- man employed or engaged in the
work to secure a certificate from Ii
censed physician showing that he has
neither amoebic dysentery or typhoid
fever the discussion waxed hottest.
E. G. Duisenberg, commissioner, de-
chred the regulation too stringent in
fts entirety, while Lester Petrie took
ground against it as not being dell
mite Other commissioners and the
chairman agreed with him on this
point.
How about the inspectors on the
job?r said Petrie. They didn't re-
quire any certificate of us last winter
when we went up Nunanu valley and
crawled through the big reservoir
main
How about the board of health Of
ficials," added Commissioner A. d.
Castro, who work in the slums lot
and are running chance as disease
carriers themselves? Are they going
to get certificates, too?"
Mayor Lane brought in the question
of when the inspection would be done.
whether at intervals of a week or so,
or every day, if need be, and Chairman
Forbes called attention to the fact
that there would probably be new men
on the job every day.
Who is going to pay for this?" was
Duisenberg's next query. is it going
to be charged to the laborer, to the
contractor orto us as commission
Fred Kirchhoff. engineer of the
voiced his feeling against
he provisions of the license. He said
hat on Job in New York $4,000 men
we're at WoiK and he doubted if they
we're all inspected. Chairman Forbes
explained that the water at this pro-
ect was filtered before being used to
rink.
Finally at suggestion from Forbes
he commission agreed that it was not
ct ready to award contract, though
|amea r. Taylor. not losing any OPP
,ortunity as a y1dder to press his
claims, had announced that he had
studied out the costs of the inspec-
tons and was willing to assume them
himself If given the job.
Commissioner Castro then moved to
refer the license to the attorney gen.
eral with the request for further ex-
PLANTATION on the following points:
Is the commission required to pay
for the establishing of two measuring
stations required by the license?
Is the license itself part of the
contract and are its terms to be en-
forced upon a contractor?
To the president of the board of
health the question of inspection will
be referred for more explanation.
At the conclusion of the meeting
Puunui streets came up for discussion
and the engineer was given authority
to meet with Ed Lord to come to some
agreement upon them. Lord was
awarded payment, for his work on
Queen street sewer.