The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-11-17
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aaministraton Of Assistance Public Ipsrd;ase ps
sides this average, must be counted thesa dams
inc special cases: $500 octogenarians, >s. an
septuagenarians, l40O blind persons, and CO.,
paralytics. In the hospitals are 63,237 beds,
of which 46,539 are for civil occupants, and
l6699 for soldiers. From 1904 to 1922 the
annual number of admissions was about 49,
900; in 1889 it was $4,000, and in 1850, 49,
900, and the hospitals refused about 80 appli-
cants day. % %
.3l5 deposits Of articles at the pawi brokers', 10
ealcs Of property by authority Of justices, 2vio-
lent deaths or suicides, "a ordinary deaths, 100
admissions to the hospitals, 78 crimes and Of
fences and 25OO writs issued by 3OG fherihs.
Tho inhabitants Of Paris pay every day, four
million francs fgT food, lodging, clothing and
taxes
The bread statistics are very curious. The
average daily consumption of the city is mil
lion pounds, or pound for each person; but,
as every workman eats three pounds o day,
it Is found that the consumption Of women
and children, and Of the aged, which is
considerably under pound piece, furnishes
an ample compensation. The climate is cal
eulated to require person Of good health to
consume one pound Of meat, one and half of
vegetables and one and half of bread, with a
bottle Of claret, or two bottles Of beer. The
consumption Of bread din, ,4.sshes in years Of
abundant wine yields, Isfhd vice versa. A
heavy rise in the price Of bread increfssses the
number Of deaths very perceptibly. 4he 40,
600 cats and 10000 dogs of the city Of Paris
cat six million pounds Of bread year. I'm
wise economists have proposed their destruc-
zion, in view Of the saving that might be ef
fected but it is clear that it would only pro-
vide for six days consumption out of 365.
There are COL bakers in Itaris, divided
into four classes the first, including those who
use more than four bags Of -four o day the
second, the third and fourth, those who use
three, two. and less than two day. A bag
weighs 3l4 pounds Of flour, and furnishes 4O8
pounds Of bread. Any baker who puts more
water into bag full than is necessary to raise
itup to this standard weight; or any one who
adulterates his -four by mixtures Of carbonate
of fmagnesia, bicarbonatc of soda, or powdered
alabaster, is punished b. fine Of thirty francs
and weeks imprisonment Frauds in bread,
however, ore extremely rarc. Every baker is
obliged to keep in store at tho City Granary
from 50 to l30 bags, according to his class.
The total thus stored is about $4,000 bags. In
case, therefore, of any circumstance preventing
the communication Of the city with the coun-
Try there is always stock Of -four on hand
nffcient for twenty-five days, and with econo-
my for forty. D
The bakers form, Of course, monopoly the
Government requires every son succeeding his
iather, or apprentice succeeding his master, to
furnish the necessary certificates Of competence.
The project, in fixing the price Of bread, for q
fortnight, has to consider and include in his
calculation, not only the price of -four, the av-
erage expenses of conversion into bread but
tho profit to be made by the baker. This, for
baker Of the first class, is Al francs q day.
but as the police supervises the sale Of bread
oy weight only, every baker is at liberty to
make what profit he can upon fancy bread
Tolls, Viennois ProVenceaux, mullins, etc., ETC.
Here competition produces its ordinary effect,
and he who gives the largest quantity and the
oest quality for the money, is likely to obtain
sae heaviest business; as for instance, Mr.
Zang, Of the Rue de Richelieu. But Mr.. Fang,
IN the production Of two-pound loaves, is in no
respect superior to the baker that supplies the
poorest quarter Of the city. The population,
who would be very glad to SEQ the butchers
monopoly removed, has never expressed any
very serious desire for the abandonment Of that
Of the bakers or for the cessation Of police in
tervention. AT such moments as the present,
when, by means Of this intervention, the City
treasury pays over half a cent pound on the
daily consumption, or more than $2,O00,000 q
year, the system loses its character as q mono
poly, and assumes that of the highest state
OF benefcence.
The meat statistics ore perhaps even drier
thon those of bread. There are 500 butchers
in the city; they are governed in their pro-
ceedings by code consisting of 30l articles,
drawn mp by Charles K, in the last year of his
reign: The number of persons in Paris who
abstain entirely from meat, is so large that the
average consumption of the city is reduced to
three ounces day for each person. It is the
class that goes without that fills the hospitals.
The average wine yield of France is ,oO6,OOO,-
900 gallons-two thirds of which is consumed
IN the country, and one-third exported Of the