The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-20
Failure Of the Registration Law, and
Necessity Of Fresh Legislation.
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THE CONTRACT SYSTEM BAD.
Shameful Condition OF the City Markets.
Tenement Houses, Slaughter Houses,
Sewerage and Drainage.
Vaccination -Swill Milk The Sale
Of Poisons,
&e., &C., &c.
Cry INSPECTORS DEPARTMENT, I
NEW YORK. Jan. III. 1851.

CRY INSPECTORS DEpARlMsNT,(
NEW York, Jan. II, 1851. !
To THE HONORABLE THE COMMON COUNCIL OF Cry or
New YORK
GENnEMEN--In conformity with the requirements OF
the ordinance organizing the departments of the mun-
cpal government of the city of New York " have the
honor herewith transmit the annual report of this
department for the year 1860 containing, as viii be-
found the tables annexed the number of deaths in the
city, the Diseases SEX nativity, color and ages during
that year also the number of births and marriages
ported to this department for the same period
Attached statistical report from the Superinten-
of sanitary Inspection, and also report from tho
Registrar OF Records and Statistics of this department
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
DAM. T. DEI.AvAN City Inspector
REPORT.
The returns at this Office show that during the year
1860 there 4241 marriages, 2,45i births and
| %, ,71O deaths.
The discrepancy the number of marriages and births
for the past year. compared with the year 1859, win be-
alluded to in another part of this report.
With the exception of epidemic which prevailed
during the months in the form of scarlet fever,
and which during the brief period Of its prevalence in
creased largely the bills of mortality the city has BEEN
unusually healthy while constant vigilance has been
observed by this department to protect the to the
| full extent of the powers invested in it.
The number of immigrants arriving in this city from
foreign ports from January to December 81 1860,
lO4 900. The per cenage of those remaining i'm
this city after their arrival be accurately
taned but is estimated at fifty per cent In arriving at
the erage rate of the mortality of the city the
| for correct estimate placed within reach
from the recently completed These returns show
population of Sl4 254 The mortality Of the past year
being 22 TO- shows apparant increase in the deaths
of the city 1859 of 065 but when the Increase OF
population for that period taken into account, We
have an actual decrease in death list For further
particulars upon this subject, and for valuable inorma
ton including the of deaths for the year 1900
would respectfully call your attention the annexed letter
from chief officer of the Bureau Of Records and sta
tstics connected with this department.
For OF official data of the mortality of London for
1860 unable to compare the health Of that city
with during the year. but from the scanty and
imperec materials before u.s. the difference either way
cannot be very great.
With the city of Paris the comparison bears equally fa
vorabe; and compared with Of the large Of
Europe the health Of New York city presents decided
| superiority
There is in this comparative table Of estimate i'm
poran element which operates to the disadvantage Of
New York. from which both Of the cities above mention
ed in exempt and that is the large emf
grafton which yearly visits shores, composed in tho
of the poverty and wretchedness Of Europe among
which the mortality very great. The deaths thus
curing made TO swell our yearly bills OF mortality,
mischevousy avaicd OF to msrcpresent and de-
tract from the general health Of the city, and to reflect
- ,, o,o,,. ., Ne ,ono,,,oor, r,o a,,osa,a ra,c
| , - . - - : -, a., -, :, " - !,
Of the mortality oi THIS city between the native oorn ana
foregn popuation is best illustrated by the suboney
\ 'e' =, - -, = -,
statistics taken from the registration records OF this
| Office
Native born, deaths IL 16s
| Ioreigrers /" ........ .................... 6,g4S
By substracting ten per cent-a liberal allowance
from this mortality. and by placing the amount Of the
ist of deaths Of native born Il will still seen
bahpce o 254 is confined 10 that elias Of foreigners ar
iNhk anu " ne , ,i ~ t' , ~ - $500
h"h u our CITY ihese ocii ua'a spsas or heusses,
| nor interested seH shness to pervert or mystify.
New York is the representative city, The great
metropolis of the Union aud in her movements chrac-
Ter commerce trade capital population energy emf
grafton enterprise she the city sui g4aeIs of the
American continent and the third Of the Christian world
To deract from her well deserved claims 10 tho recogn
of being among the most healthy Of the great cities
population Of sixty thousand souls. compar son has
also been instituted between the general health Of this
city and that OF small New England city, or rather
large vage, to which the name Of city - applet, which,
from the paucty Of its population and is sem rural cha
racter, l. liable to small portion Of those diseases To
which large metropolis communicating with every por
ton OF The world, exposed Such conpar son might g.
arter anu even pc maue 70 extend - sca,'eiea rHn
crowded city that we have 70 deal 70 tne appoaton o'
the rules 81 sanitary science al such pictures oi con-
ased heathiness and unhealthiness are utterly OUT o.
pace IN the application Oh the science Oh heah 70 fga
/ population.
Dr Ltheby IN hts sanitary report for the city oi Ion
don for the years 1855 and 1859 in noting tho difference
q MOI ta,y a. compared between tne olty ol lonaon no
.hexurn us'ric's VI nns"hu' hoids Tue loho"ns o"p
tc ansuage'-
The lifetime q adult females in England only about