New-York tribune., 1867-08-28
MErRopoITAy BOARD OF HEALTH.

1he Board was in session yesterday, all the
members present. DR.. Stone from the Sanitary Commit
tee offered series OF resolutions, defining the duties OF
the Sanitary Superintendent, and his assistant, with
reference vessels which have boen under the control
OF the Quarantine authorities II they have doubt
"a the proprety of granting permit fOr vessel to
discharge cargo after having received clean bill OF
health fIom tile Health Officer they shall refer the matter
10 the Sanitary committee Permits certificates given
by the Health Ofcer shall be Kept NE and they shall
keep themselves informed 10 the sanitary condition Of
even vessel and its cargo arriving at tho wharves of the
city The reading of the resolutions provoked considera-
Bile discussion between Doctors stone and SwbUITe, IN
which Commissioner BOswOrth took part. The resOlu-
ton- were finally laid the table bT vote OF five 20 two
Tho complaint Of certain residents IN AmItys relative to
the driving of cattle through said street, which was re-
fered 10 superintendent Dalton was returned with the
remark that tne complaint referred 10 was nuisance
which should be absed ArcsolutiOn passed instruct
ing the Attorney of tine Board commence suits against al
tenement house owners who have not compiled Win INC
requirements 0 the law with reference to the same Ihe
request OK various persons Tor permission to burn shells
IN the vicinity Of Frstaye ana Avenue A. was refused
petition received from MeSsIs. Gardner, Baker q
Co. requesting pcImi, 0nto remove over 400 bales Oi COT
ton and wool now iu he warehouses al Red HOOK 10 hc
Antwerp steamer lJing at Per No % North hiVef Tor
tran shipment Tie cotton and wool referred 10 was
taken from tine steamer Charles Lord now lying III the
Upper Quarantine, which recently arrived from Calves
ton where yellow fever has been declared epidemic.
The application provoked eosderabe discussion when
was uNa!y .elti,d by the adoption OF resolution TO
questuc the Counsel o the Board 10 report a. 70 the rco-
tive duties uf the Health Commissioners, and the Com
rnisonc 81 Quarantine and hc Health Oncer regard
ing fhe disposal vessels and their cargOes which may
arrive from iult ted Of suspected ports.
TIE WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE REGISTRAR OF
VITAL STATISTICS
METRoTOLTtN BOARD or IRATu,
BUREAU OF Wal STATISTICS, Aug. =, 1861
The week ending on Saturday last was faYOr-
abic 20 ic though the temperature 7j Fahr) was moro
than degrees higher than that OF the corresponding
tho same IN both The total number Of deaths In New
York wac COS including 81 IN public institutions 80 OF the
latter being inmates Of the Island hospitals and asyum
There pa deaths IN Brooklyn, including 81 IN me
institutions aud villages outside the cry PROPER ine inc
mortality u these cities IN the corresponding week last
year ia and 4g respectively The average mortality
iu corresponding week ihc past thiieeH years III NGN
York COT ur more than the total 81 last week me
population Is beloved 90 have Increased moro than 20 per
cent tu the past % years.
ZymOtic diseases, mostly darrhoal, still predominant.
bat decreasing iu their relative well as absolute
numbers These foul diseases destroyed NJ tho rate
cent OF m that ed IN Ncw-York last week and In 2.TGI
Of the inhabitants OF Brooklyn or 3)Oj per cent OF MI
that died IN that city OF infants under one year DID, 234
1913 perrd IN Tie former and H. or iO5l per cent on
al In the latter city Tho deathrae IS now, and has
been fOr too week, past higher In Brooklyn thah III
Ncw.York ard upon Investigation the fact plainly ap-
year, that the excessive mortality mostly confined 70
Twelfth and Sixteenth Wards In the foul sluns OF the
,tnamed ward there was death IA every go Oi IL n
haDltait last week Dr. SAes the Registrar, slys' ne
sixteenth shows fearful dratl-ratc which H II cotu-
uts, would destroy ont ot every j. lnLaDtauts IAe
density ~ population but - square yards 10 cnch per
som aud tho undrained condition Of the SOL account io
this result Systematic drainage haS not yet been Mt
tempted iu thai ward smken lots have been MED ana
uui.utcs abHt.d, but the chief source ot cYl s re-
mau-" Great practical lessons In sanitary science can
be- studied IN Brooklyn Just now ana " WIZ be fortunate
u the people there shah put IN pJacuce Col Natrings :
pfrcpIts and methods OF - Drainage IOl ntaith ana
IrninalC Tor Prudt"
There were very few deaths outside the tenement house
al sfict- u NcwlOfk last week. For example In the
Twenty ntst Ward where % deaths occurred teXeusye
ol - OF bellevue nOspiaU only three occurred IN &c
blocks of IeVustUnyc while in the 1900 nhaDl
tants Fifteenth Ward only died seven bic Is
In the Tgcutcth, Ike number OI blocks having similar
sanitary wants M me sixth the Seventh, tire Tenth the
Seventeenth, aud Twenty first Wards had more deaths
than all the wehOustd and ceanly population IN me
cfv sautary and social Improvements must 30 hand IN
hand In neso homes of unhealthncss II we would rescue
them nom their high dlathratcs The cSccs OF mortal
~ lass week seemed a. occur almost wholly I'm those
block, n which domestic cleanliness Is especially neg
Icptpd l. HARRIS.