New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-08
The Ilenifh of the City.

The mortuarv records of the past week show total
Of DO deaths Of which 900 men, 2i 81 boys,
- girls and ooloTod OF the whole number Js took place
40 the public institutions distributed oows Battery
Barracks Hospital 10 EewYork Hospital g. City Prison.
,, st. yncents Hospital j. Wards Island Emgraut Hos
pita ss Randals bland l2i Lunatc Asylum, Il Roman
Catholic Orphae Asylum Am,house 3d. Charity Hospital,
u WorShouse o.; Colored Hone. g. Lunatic Asylum i2i
Nursery Hospital D. Penentary. l. Bellevue Hospital H.
TIE DEATHS By WARDS.
the various Words First, n: Second. none Third 4
Fonrth 2oi Fhh 6i sixth 25i seventh =; Ega.h 80
49, Fourteenth 95 fifteenth 49, sixteenth 81 seven
Twenty first y; Twenty second 46
AGEs OF DEAD.
The following table the ages OF the dead Under
year 80, between and . Ol between and 3. es be.
beween 10 and Is o. IS TO % 49, 90 and under iO 2O; 40
under Co. ii so and under So 6Ji % aud upward H.
Total $40.
The following shows the nativity OF the deceased OF last
week Ireland 2J2 Germany lOO England IS. Scotland Q.
Poand 3: Austria 4. Denmark a. France q Sweden. 4;
Switzerland a. Africa British America. Il Italy p
known, 4 United SIaieS 90.
During the week ending SStaay August there wero 239
deaths from cholera OF which - took place in the Battery
barracks Hospital in the New-YorS Hospital in the Ciiy
Prison AZ Wnds Island Enigrant Hospital II in Randals
Island II in the AlmshOuse % 10 the W0rkhouse IN the
In1 ac HS5I Ho,pt making total Of s7 in the pubic in
situations Besides there death from cholera the First
NE Fifth in the sixth in the snventh in the Eighth IN
The Ninth in the Tenth the Eleventh the Twelfth
me s sixteenth none in the ssyenteen in the Eshteoah
In the Nineteenth In the Twentieth In the Twenty rst
and none in the Twenty second. Total So from which
will that the public institutions absorbed more than
two.thirds OF ell the deaths from this cause.
ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES or MORTALITY.
In transmitting statistics TO the Board Of Health Dr.
writes thus The total number Of deaths IN New York
tons The total mortality Brooklyn 49, exclusive OF
39 deaths In the county Institutions beyond the limits OF the
~ The increase upon the as Of the preceding
rs 10 New York, and In Brooklyn 81 Cholera was the sole
cause and that mainly IN tue public institutions
The analysis and classification Of the OF death are
falls In tables submitted. and IN the
~ he analysis appears that the ratio VI nfan mortality
10 the total deaths and particularly to the mortality In the
adult period Of life has very Iapd me saio OF
n. ~ sneeial oause TIE first year OF nfanS gave %
Der cennm the total mortality the mrs. two years gave 80
per ceuum. and the first hye years gave out "a per cent
Ifncy feels the first breath OF the foul air on which the In
tcon OF cholera feeds grows into epidemic which adult
f cannot resist amid the exciting causeS Zymotic dis
cases caused 81! per cent OF az 1ealns ~ new iorK
$1,000 Ok neycsnt of ali deaths In New York. including pub
lie institutions exclusive Of the epidemic In those nsitu
find but 81 per cent o. .1e ota moIa was ron
Ward and within the limits OF that city this produced
90 per cent Of all deaths The undrained Twelfth.
the lower streets OF the SltuI part OF tne Elgnih
The recognized centers Of the epidemic In that city
while In New YORK tho chief cencrs OF he epidemic as shown
upon the mp darrhea districts Tor tns we're 10 lower
w in the First Ward IN the hithy rookeres o
~" Tors,h IN lover Mulberry and Baxtersts OF the Sixth "A
seven OF the blocks OF the gnth In nye nock OF
the Ninth in FIVE blocks OF sS tNV spots
Hospital in limited quarters Of the Twelfth Iwen sh and
! Iwentyaecond wares. ,.-.-,.. A., H..
in several Of dafhee districts me epdeic tendency
a cholera ana 20 diarrhca is air, ads dmniAh az but
i6L 7th AID 10Th Wards tho observ ons 81 tie past
give warnings that should be- instantly heeled BY genera
cooperation with the sanHy authorities. the inhabitants In