New-York daily tribune., 1849-04-25
CITY ITEMS.

TUEspAY April "a.
HEALTH oF TIE ClrY.-Tie Cry Inspector 8
Rsp0rf We have been trying for some days TO have
time and space for notice OF the elaborate and excel
eut Annual Report OF the City Inspector, Or. A. W.
wurrror the number Of Deaths and In,erments n the
C,y during the year ls4s, and the general Health Of
the City The Repor, furnishes material tor some Gu
rous and interesting deductions The following 10 q
dlses, OF ia statistical portion
The whole number OF Deaths reported 10 the ofee
iurins the year was l5s1 OF these. l,l6l were stl
born and premature births While 26 were brought 20
;he City tom other places Tor in,srmeus!esvss the
number sc.saily deceased In the City trum disease
casualties SC liS3 The number OF casualties drown
Ing suicides and murders amounted during the year to
81. The nativity Of those who died within the City
was lrish. 2949 German, o9i English, ~ Scotch.
lu French - Prussisn. l. and the remainder ns
tves Of the Ua,cd states and various European ns,ons
10 ls47, the tots, number Of deaths WAS l4,iil.
Ofthose who died st the Public Institutions during
the pas, year ti6 were At Bellevue Hosptsl iA n
Wsrds Island $40 At the City Hospital at Rsndalls
Island l37 At the Colored Home 100 At the Alns
House. Blackwell. Island ls2 and smaller numbers
At lne Blsckwels Island Lunstc and Small Pox Hospi
,ss-n ,ae lsror - OF those removed from the City
Tor !n.erm0nt Greenwood received ~, and the Cshoi
ic Ground at " lhamsburgh l699.
Among the causes OF death may be noticed IL csses
Of Poisoning Q Killed Murdered, and "a Ssie'ss'-
Seven deaths from Hydrophobia have sso been report
ed. and twenty cases of Te,snus. The whole rumeer
from issrses o. Ae b5Ess-often Incident In Summer,
- the use Of 90 much unwholesome fruit either too
green or too much decsyed for human wefsre-wss
two thousand three hundred aud seventy two including
cases Of Inflammation. dysentery. cholers morbus &c
The mortality Of children under the age OF ave years
hss been considerably less In proportion to the whole
number OF deaths during the pas, than the preceding
year The whole number in lsi7 was 1,3i3-in lsis,
g. s41 including the stlborn and premature births
Seven persons are reported having died at the ase Of
100 and upward the number who had passed 90 WAS
l.liO
But prominent and important feature OF this Re-
por, s the gres, number OF deaths from Consumption
- SOP exceeding the ravsges Of any other single
disease more than two 20 one. Convulsons, indeed.
are act down at lll3-but this includes every variety
Of the complaint while Consumption, for which peo'
pie say there Ia no cure, to have caused the
death of nearly two thousand In the space OF twelve
months-aided 10 which Inflammation u the Lungs.
nearly kindred disease 10 set down at 1O- and Iy
phus Fever generated by the foul odors OF dirty
Ci,y) Is credited to 20 more
Is not the OF portion Of these exceedingly To-
tai pulmonary affections clearly useesble to impru'
dence the part Of those who take little care for diet
and exposure And sill larger number may possi-
bly, have found their sccoun. In wet feet or thin gar
mens entirely unsuited to the vcissiiudes OF Spring
and Winter weather. And, again, when the poorer
classes Of the community buy and eat the disgusting
loads of 90 called Meats which are allowed to be hawk
ed abou, the streets while II s no longer d. for human
food-t Is scarcely 10 be wondered that there
should be numerous and complicated disorders OF the
internal economy OF the human frame. These are plain
and .elfeyideni facts which richly merit tho earnest at
tenton Of our citizens who have ii wholly within their
own power 10 say whether such things shall or shall not
be suffered TO continue 10 the matter not worthy 9,
least thought