The New York herald., 1867-05-15
METROPOLITAN BOARD or HEALTH,
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mortality IN this CITY ana brooklyn Tor the week ending
SATURDAY., the Ilth Instant
METROPOLITAN BOARD or HsALrH
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS, May a. 1861
In the week that ended last Saturday there were 46
sions. a being inmates Of the island hospitals and
asylums In Brooklyn there LA deaths, iucu-
svc OF 10 deaths in Kings county asylums. &c This
1000 in New York and ~ 4s per 1000 in Brooklyn.
estimated upon population as gwen BY last census and
excluding certain county institutions
Zymotic Infections killed 90 persons "a 0A per cent
Of all that died in New YORK. and 81 81 5s per
a. IN @ oa a. 90 i've, 1s
mostly in the Eleventh, Twelfth and seventeenth
wards-and IN Brooklyn destroying IA lives, Of which
IN the Ninth and Tenth wards Scariatna In the
unbygicnic quarters killed II children IN New
York and in Brooklyn The practical results Of the
dwellings, where these infections fatal reach
beyond the immediate benefits TO the families that
now gratefully accept . these n nsw ms msshods OF pro
great safeguard against the cholera, which
win all summer threaten 70 scourge the filthy
and puerperal fever killed g. and other fevers took 10
persons 10 New York, bat none in Brooklyn. The re-
month fully connfm the fact that aud the same con
tagous poison Is producing these untlmeiy deaths In
ss = ns 90 0
the Importance Of constant cleaning and dsnecton In
The morality among Infants under one year old last
week increased % 2s37 per cent Of the total number Of
deaths 10 New York. and 70 ~ II OF the total
these nant deaths in excess in the quarters that
most need the operation OF the Tenant house Reform act
The coroners made returns upon 80 dcaths Is being
BY violence and by drowning La Londou tho third
week in April, with its 3.0s3 600 inhabitants and
front oxposure nearly equal 70 thai OF New York
thcre but ave fatal accidents By drowning with
out the French mania for suicide the sides of III d
city vie with those or the Seine Paris for deaths BY
The temperature Of the wssk was cooler than the cor
responding week last year. the mean being 81 degrees
Fahrenheit last week. and the year previously m vss
6ek degrecs the average humidity this year was o3
and last year only 60-total saturaon or the atmos.
pliers being regarded 100 Tho rain fall eoualed 81
inches Of water, and the storm came on thsre vss :
fall or 1x inches in the barometer.
Nothing bearing any semblance 70 Asatc cholsra be-
yet appeared among the Of death fun report
Of the nrst 36 Natal Of that disease witnessed
In Nicaragua has kindly boen forwarded 70 ~ by Z
physician on The spot The port Of New York 10 is.
endangered By that far-o6 epidemic than Wa last
autumn in London. Dublin and Liverpool whence none
was imported 70 cur city
Death rates In foreign cilies the third week IN Apr
reported ~ follows By the English Registrar den
sral-1n London 81 per 900 annual rassj: il Lver.
po0l ~ Per l,0o0i 30 10 Bdinburg Is In Dubn - IN
Glaagows and In Vienna the previous week, = per
A. the perfectly accurate census which the Nssropol
tan Police has just competed In the Seventeenth ward
ono ward, which, By estimation doss not contain enc
tenth the populaton Of the twenty-five wnrds ws may
justly estimate our New York death rate % oOoo
Of nhabaatA This, last week. would have bsen n per
,000snnud death rate, Including ths noralmy IN al
county tnstitntioas Yet must coutaue - 90 the
oflcia census occasionally explaining the method of
correcting our published rates. HAnRm