The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-18
HHIHOEOllIAN BOARD o. HkALTH,
BUREAU or VITAL STATISTICS Sent l6 1s87

tally In this city and Brooklyn, for the week ending
Saturday, the 14lh inst =
METROPOLITAN BOARD or HzALrH
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS, Sept IT, 1867
In tho week that ended on Saturday, the l4th inst,
there were 5l2 deaths in New York. including the 90
that occurred public institutions; Al Of the latter
number occurred Backwells Island and 10 Ward
Island The total number Of deaths In Brooklyn was
l72 the Kings county institutions and suburban
beyond the limits OF that city added 20 deaths TO this
number
These statistics alone show no. only an improved but
mortality in the corresponding week the pre-
ceding SIX years wa. sos. Referring to che
fecions. We find them fearfully IN the ascend
ant in certain disricts-the First, Fourth Seventh,
Seventeenth and Twentieth wards maintaining
the gnobe lead in those prsvensaols Of death
81 or AIS per cent Of all deaths In Brooklyn were Of
the zymotic class Tho first year Of infancy gave lol
or 81 per cent OF deaths In the former and 73
81 63 cent in the latter city This waste OF infane
life and the aelds OF zymotc deaths point CHASTITY
finger at causes OF prevenable sickness which only
be controlled by improved sanitary of the homes and
young children Of the aborng classes In wretchediy
nlthy and diapdated house in the Twentieth ward in
which we recorded two deaths by cholera during week.
the filth scourge that sent an industrious father and
favore child to untimey graves at the time made
a family Of paupers OF the widow and orphans 1t did
more than this for II killed another person In the
block in similar foul tenement in the rear OF the
premises first attacked, and but for extraordinary
cleansing the whole OF that unhealthy region would
have been endangered.
1t Is worthy Of special remark in regard 10 the quick
ana thorougn WORK the sanitary inspectors and
ing corps do in such exigences whether the work
be executed at midnight or at midday, such work at
once arrests all panic aud induces the poor ignorant
creatures that inhabit the loathsome slyes TO lend
hand in cleansing and subsequent sanitary care
watched the WORK and its 10 this instance with
peculiar interest. And could the panic stricken inhab.
itans Of the Italian cities and the island OF Sicily but
have found Garabad Of hygiene among their priests
or their physicians, they could have been saved
the horrors that have haunted their Streets and stayed
the cholera before 1t had seized tenth OF its hum
dred thousand victims Revercnty, but with very
clear assurances Of personal duty and official RESPONSE
bty, the Sanitary Inspectors confidently expect
results worthy the efforts they have put forth for ar.
resting the course OF Nth infections like cholera
For several months past the cities Of England and
northern Europe, like most Of our American cities
have been putting their sanitary defencss in order to
resist the dreaded epidemic. The following facts show
saving OF life seldom before reached this season OF
the year in the cities mentioned and this result indie.
pendently Of the prevention Of epidemic compeusates
the cost ten thousand times:-In the we,ks ending
August 10 and August IL respectively the death rates.
II estimated as annual rates. in Lopdon % and
"a in 900; Ednburg, q and %; Dublin. q each
week. Bristol, II and II IN the respective weeks
Glasgow, q and Is; and, In Vienna, the first two
weeks Of August, % and % in thousand inhabitants
E. HARRIS