The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-16
NUUANU WATER IS
! FOUND TO CONTAIN
GERMSOFTYPHO|D.
Health Board Reports Danger;
Committee Of Supervisors
Meets and Makes Report
CHI CREMATION PLANT
,...s IS ORDERED BY CABLE
Committee Asks Mayor To Take
Up Matter Of Securing Mill
tary Guard With General

Following notification by the board
Of health that the Nuuanu Valley water
supply was contaminated and contain.
ed typhoid fever germs, meeting Of
the health committee of the board Of
supervisors was held and report for.
INFLATED to be presented TO the board
az its meeting last night. That report
recommended the Immediate purchase
Of d chlorination plant, that the mayor
and president of the. board of health
should send out notices warning water
rsers Of the dangers and Of precautions
TO be taken and that the mayor should
take up with the commanding general
of the, Hawaiian department the matter
II furnishing a military guard for the
Nuuanu. Valley watershed and reservoir.
Z This report was adopted by the
board of supervisors at its meeting last
night, $1,000 was appropriated for
chlorination plant and instructions Is
sued that the plant be ordered by cable
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The committee further reported that
he work Of cleansing the reservoirs
lad been started. 81.
Water Unfit For Use q.
Nnnanu reservoir water is unfit for
lifman consumption until il has been
rolled. II has been found to contain
Uphold fever germs, bacilli coli.
Whether il has become impregnated
With the microbes through insanitary
onditions ia the watershed or whether
has been deliberately contaminated
~ the placing Of germs in the water
" some enemy has not been determin-
u. In, either event the health of the
omniunity is menaced and the one and
My safe course 10 pursue iAt boil
II water that is TO be used for drink
ng purposes or the washing of food
which is not TO be cooked, such as let.
uee or other salads.
II the Nuunnu water has been deli.
lerately contaminated by some enemy
lacing germs in il, a military guard
ill prevent a repetition of that Of
Sense. Cholera or other dangerous d.
eases might equally well be spread in
uch manner II, however, the supply
.las been Contaminated through insani.
AIRY conditions in the watershed, tho
.ource Of danger must be discovered
ud removed. Meantime, boil the wa.
err that ID to be used in the home and
rink nothing but boiled water.
There Is no report that other water
ources of supply contain typhoid germs
sut there are many more people using
Nuuanu water. than the water from
nch other sources. H.. g.. ......
Iealth Board Reports Ill.,.
DR.. J. 3, b. Pratt, president of the
,oard Of health, announced yesterday
hat investigation by his department
bowed the Nuunnu water to contain
he germs of typhoid fever and TO be
ighly dangerous for use. He notified
he health committee of the board Of
supervisors of what analysis had dis
'losed and last night the board Of SUI.
'ervisors took action upon his written
'eport. rE..asr...,. '...... .,'aa.
Examination of the water from this
'ource of the city supply followed n
Meeting of the health department and
be health committee of the board Of
supervisors held last Saturday. -Four
courses for the Improvement Of this
alter source and the making of II
'ess unsafe for consumption were rec.
'mmendedsat that meeting but no &c.
ion was taken on these and no meeting
4 the health committee held to con
ider them up to the time of Doctor
rats report. Even before this, as
FAR back rs three or four months ago,
was advised in this paper that there
hould be guard placed over the wa.
er supply. e. '..r..31. ."g f.
'wO possible Explanations . ~.
Typhoid fever germs could get into
he city's water supply in only two
Hays. The baeilli could be put into the
water deliberately or could reach il from
esspOols or similar receptacles within
the drainage area of the watershed, OF
1T there by typhoid sufferer or car.
Ter, innocently but clrelessly. The III.
ease is one of filth but the germs do
Tot generate from decaying or decayed
animal or vegetable matter. Thus they
he germs must pass from the human
lOdy and the disease is contracted only
through the mouth. Boiling of the wa.
er that is used for the washing OF
FOod that Is to go on the table uneook,
Vi and all drinking water is the only
safe way to kill the germs. Mere fill
tratiOn viii not suffice. G. - a... +
Board Accepts Report s o.aH
Last night the board of supervisors
took up the matter of the contaminat
ID water supply upon the report of its
tealth committee which had been pre-
cared after the committee met in the
afternoon. The board merely adopted
the report md directed the ordering
~ cable of the chlorination plant, ap
proprb ting 10000 to pav for il. ne
yond this no direct action was taken
II is recommended in the committe,
report that the mayor and president
II the board of health send out notiee,
Of the danger and of precautions to b,
'nken because the committee believed
such notice would 10 more effectiV,
from those officials The board Of su
pervisors by adopting the renort on
dorses the recommendation but does moi
direct such action. .
! The committee also reports that q
the matter is taken up by the mayo
with the commanding general the latte
win probably cause guards to be sta
toned where needed, This recommen
dation the board also accepts but doe
not issue Amy direction TO the MAYO
to take such action and does not max
any request, on it's mart, of the com
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