REGARDING PRIVY-VAULTS AND CESSPOOLS. 8. No privy-vault, sink or cesspool shall hereafter be located or constructed within fifty feet of any stream, lake, pond, well or spring of water, nor within two feet of the line of any lot, nor placed in such a position that it is not easily accessible for emptying and cleaning; no cesspool shall be made more than eighteen or less than six feet deep; no privyvault shall be made more than three feet deep and shall not extend farther beneath the privy covering it than to meet a perpendicular line drawn from the front edge of the seats in said privy. The word "cesspool" in this paragraph shall be construed to mean and include all excavations for the reception of waste matter into which waste water flows; the word "privy-vault" in this paragraph shall be construed to mean and include all excavations for the reception of waste matter into which no water flows. 9. When deemed necessary by the Board of Health, the sides and bottom of any privy-vault, sink or cesspool, shall be made either wholly or in part water tight, so as to prevent any saturation of the ground about the said vault, sink or cesspool, and shall be provided with suitable ventilating arrangement. 10. A cesspool or other sanitary means of disposing of waste, when necessary, shall be completed before any building hereafter to be constructed shall be occupied. No structure or cover shall be put upon or over any privy-vault, sink or cesspool, until it has been inspected by the proper Agent of the Board of Health and approved as meeting the requirements of these regulations and of public health. 11. Any privy-vault, sink or cesspool, already constructed in Honolulu which has become a nuisance, or in any way dangerous to life or detrimental to health, shall be removed, reconstructed, altered, or disinfected to meet the requirements of these regulations and of public health, as directed by the Board of Health or its Agent. 12. The Board of Health or its Agents may cause the emptying or disinfecting of any privy-vault, sink or cesspool that may be deemed offensive, or when required by public health, at the expense of the owner or occupant of the premises. 13. Within thirty days after service of a written notice upon the owner or owners, occupants, or persons in possession of any land within the limits of the public sewer system, directing said owner or owners to connect with the public sewer, the use of privy-vaults and cesspools shall be entirely discontinued upon such lands; all cesspools shall be emptied, disinfected and filled in accordance with the requirements of these regulations and of the public health; and all privy-vaults shall be removed, except in so far as permission may be granted by the Board of Health to transform the same into approved water closets connected with the sewer system. 14. No privy-vault or cesspool shall be excavated or maintained within ten feet from any dwelling-house or inhabited building or cook-house or place where cooking is done. 15. No privy-vault or cesspool shall be maintained or excavated in any place where for any reason free and unimpeded access may not be had to the same by an excavator cart. 16. No privy shall be built or maintained so as to entirely cover the cesspool or vault under the same, but the cesspool or vault shall project out on one side beyond the superstructure in such a manner as to allow the inspection and removal of the contents of said cesspool or vault. The contents of any privy vault or cesspool shall not be allowed to rise within eighteen inches of the top of the same or to such a height as to flow out onto the surface of the ground. 17. No cesspool or privy vault shall be built or maintained in any location except the same shall have a substantial water tight curb which shall retain the earth without and the contents of the cesspool or vault within, and shall be provided with a substantial water tight cover, having a small, movable lid in the same to facilitate examination and removal of the contents. 18. All cesspools or privy-vaults shall have four-inch castiron vent pipes with caulked lead joints, or galvanized iron pipes, extending not less than twelve feet into the open air, and if within twenty feet of an inhabited building the top of such vent pipes shall extend above the roof of the highest building within a distance of twenty feet of the same. such vent pipes shall run as direct as possible. All 19. Every privy shall have proper seats with hinged lids to cover the opening of same, which shall be kept closed when not in use. 20. Waste water from sinks, bathtubs, places where washing is done or water closets shall not be allowed to discharge into any stream, lake, pond or ditch, or upon the ground, except in such places and under such conditions as will not endanger the public health. 21. All drains shall be of cast iron, lead, vitrified clay, cement or water-tight masonry. If of iron or lead the joints shall be caulked with molten lead; if of vitrified clay, they shall have tight cement joints, all joints to be smooth in the inside. 22. All cesspools or privy-vaults when abandoned and the use thereof discontinued shall be at once entirely emptied of liquid and solid contents, and shall be disinfected and filled with earth, sand, ashes, or other such clean materials; and the wooden curbing about the same removed to a depth of at least four feet below the surface of the ground. In no case shall refuse, garbage or any unclean material be used in filling such privy-vault or cesspool. REGARDING MANUFACTURE OF POI. 23. Each and every building where poi is manufactured by manual labor shall be laid with cement floors, with gutters leading into a trap drain connected with a cesspool, or the sewer system when completed. REGARDING GARBAGE. 1 24. The Garbage carts will operate within the following limits, i. e., from the Fertilizer Company's in Kalihi, west, to Punahou street, east, and from Judd street, mauka, to Waterfront, seaward, upon a schedule of charges adopted by the Superintendent of Public Works. 25. It shall be the duty of each party from whose premises the garbage is to be removed to provide a suitable container of not more than 12 cubic feet capacity, and to cause the same to be set out in such places and at such times as the Public Works Department shall direct, for the convenience of garbage collectors. All empty containers shall be kept thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.. 26. The carts will remove all Garbage, regardless of its nature. 27. All garbage and refuse which is subject to decay shall be collected by householders or occupiers of dwellings each day; and if within the limits named in section 24 the same shall be placed in containers as provided in section 25 for collection; and if beyond said limits the same shall be burnt or removed. 28. No garbage, stable manure, night soil, or animal or vegetable refuse of any nature which is subject to decay shall be used for grading purposes, or for filling up any house lot or other tract of land. 29. No garbage shall be deposited in any place not authorized by the Board of Health. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. Hono tured gutt , or Honolulu, Hawaii, August 9, 1906. At a meeting of the Board of Health held August 3rd, 1906, the following was regularly adopted and made a part of the rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii, viz.: REGULATIONS FOR MOSQUITO PREVENTION AND ABATEMENT. Section 1. No person or corporation, any public 1g and use in houses ar the e pub .ce. :ict of ard of skins y Dis Board |