The New York herald., 1867-11-20

tl0O IOuOWIuB " LIZ 08IK0' weekly report on tn0
mortality in this ciy anA Brooklyn Tor the sadlng
Saturday, the l6sh insts--
MCrRoro11rAs BOARD or HxALrs.
BUREAU or VITAL SfATIsuta Nov. 10, 1861.
In the week that ended saturday there wsrs 3sS
40 Of the latter occurred the aud county sstab
lIshments the East river lalaads There were I50
10 Brooklyn and Il other deaths were
10 county institutions and streets beyond tie city limits
ia tue bureau there This rate or mortality L. IN New
York. es BY 80 deaths than that o. the corresponding
week in 1886, and compared with the Last preceding
nve years. !. y 90 less than thu average
Though ths Brooklyn records snow isss favorable
remembered the ratio Of increass in the population
OF that city far exceeds that Of New Yosk Ossoysr
children under Ave years Of ags In il popaatloa thsn
has been found In any other city known 20 1t u In
sDis sbounding class of the Broukyn poposaton
death ~ eycessvs harvest Lass weak g. ~ per
OF he deaths IN thai CITY weEs Of thai nsst gum
quennial psriol while In New York tho same period
seniing those facts week BY week. ~ do becomes
daty 10 STATE the fact that while Tbs census shows
about ftsn per csns 81 shs sosa popaaison il secrss
only aboat ten per cent Of The New York popuasea 70
IS syno @ diseases Destroyed n IS per cont q al n,ss
Lost 10 New York lss ssek and IS % Per or
total N Brooklyn Scarstina and dipShsra predomi.
s1roysd nnstssa lives there and but sixteen IN New
York u will be forunate, indeed, u the present
= m :, suon ~ e cS
the Destructive pestences Of childhood Thoughtful
physicans and parents will 0e amply rewarded In study
ing tne conditions thai aitsnd the decrease Of fatal s
eases and premature deaiha
Tho iocaIes 70 New York that exhibit the greatest
saving Of life wesk and In the pseceding SIX wsss
are Tue FourSl, Sixth Tenth and Seventeenth wards
And whoever pasca through these crowded DISTRICTS
discover that result has been wholly
We're tnoss natussi cnolsra dslds now, former
umss waiting the germs " infection from Earope hero
would be just cass o. anxiety from every saip arrival
that brings Swss emigrants, or passengers from the
Rh from Pb.and, whsTe tho epdemsc has gained
deadly foolholds. secure tbs and
sanitary render the metropolitan dsrict, the
course OF cholera BY unusual routes in Europe
demands that bygienlc regulations BE- vigansy main
insd y s CLASSES q the people - well BY the sAa
tary authorities. aa
The means BY which cholera Infection was brought
from the city Of kOme and planted In the modnlain
valley fZurch Switxsrand eson An instructive lesson
and me In which the spids MIC has crsps
port 70 port aionx the great highways where u
uclhcr oxpected nor resisted and vt last tDo grand
stride Il took With . company or Swiss inmigr~nts
the port Of Antwerp, the decks Of the stcansop City
Of Cork. and the barriers OF the New York Quarsutine
last week. WILL whom Published, teach anew the grvat
truths which the w0Bld y slow learn concerning
measures Against this scourxe England and
ireland yet remain free IRON tho epidsml but the
wsch~ ords OF preparation there have bosn given. Tue
last reports from Registrar Generals Once London
SHOW low death rais aad NO splasnicS Their sscu-
rity increases ousa W X. HARRIS.