New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-09
VJTiL STATISTICS.

The tables presented to the Legislature by the
Registrar of vital Statistics for the City Of NewYork con
cernng the mortality of this city during the last year
detail curious well ms Instructive tcts Ihere
were registered during the nine months ending sept 30
three fines as many deaths as births and twice many
births marriages. the exact Figures being marrages
87S0 births 1910 Deaths $50. In 1865, the marriages
were trle more I'm number than the births the deaths
being nearly five times the births In 1864 the proportion
Of deaths 10 births was about the in 1895, the
excess ~ marriages being considerably greater Probably
the chief solution OF these variations In the propolonO
marriages and births II found Ia the fact that I'm 1864 and
1858 very many of the returning soldiers contracted
marriage, the resultant offspring appearing III the
The province Of the Bureau Of vital Statistics has been
aid In disclosing the causes OF disease through the CORRECT
registration ofbrths deaths aud mlrages The Registrar
ays I'm his report that Whatever gain has been made In
the completeness the two branches OF registration sle
April last Is 10 he attributed 20 the increase OF ntel
genee and Incentives The record Of deaths can be more
fully enforced, permit for burial In any OF our Gene
eries Is granted until physcias certiicate mas Deen
made ont stating full particulars concerning the
of death Fun Information has been also filed IN
respect every corpse conveyed from or transported
through the two cities Of NewYork and Brooklyn the
dlsreputabe fact is stated that until the nauguraon OF
the strict requirements OF the Metropolitan Sanitary
Board, burial permits by the quantity issued IN blank
from the office OF the City Inspector were TO DE hd or
the asking ~ the undeTakers shops ana drug Stores
throughout this city. further Illustration OF the now
not TODD It policy II found In the TACT that during Janu
Inauguration OF the Board OF HEALTH not name or
fact relating TO the vital statistics OF the city HAD been
when cases OF cholera, ltyphus fever, or kindred
diseases were reported which was evidently due 10
ayodabe causes the removal OF such causes was at once
undertaken, and when there was marked increase IN
the death rate IN any given Ocaty blct eiurt hh hho
for the arrest OF the impending danger Daily study was
made Of the comparative mortality 0f tho various warus
and Streets and health maps kept constantly corrected
up to date, to show no glance the localities where
epidemic disease was most To De feared anu guaIucu
against Careful noations OF meteorological changes
In connection with mortality records were
also made. Thus in the six weeks ending August O.
comprising the intensely heated term there were 429
deaths sunstroke other effects OF the heat ond
in the week ending July al tho total mortality was lSoa
an Increase the deaths OF ordinary summer
periods All Of these careful observations go 10 make up
the tables which will enable the Sanitary Board OF 1867 10
proceed far ntegeny than was possible Tor That
Of 1885, which had to first seek out facts Cpd theh deuuco
conclusions from them. .,.-x,..
comparison OF the mortality records with tne tap h
Of the population which we are enabled 10 pr , ,r
morning show the death rate deaths In the city TOT
the nine months ending September &c. were OF tS ~
the rate OF 22OO per year. The census tapies
population OF EewYork as 7263s6, the ratio OF deaths
being about in 25 That OF London Ia sh"nt W a. IA
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