New-York tribune., 1868-07-29
wac for chlorid of lime destroyed nothing and soon
evnnorated b ths solution lasted until the dust Gov

evaporated bHt this solution lasted 9nh the dut GOV
the streets The Committee on Dsintecton was eonnh-
Commit tee TO use the disinfectans over portions OF
the 0',y as they deemed necessary
DIR. HARRtS'S LETTER.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH, !
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS, July 2s, 1865.
In the week that ended on Saturday, the
25h inst there deaths in New and 2s6 in
Brooklyn The hospitals and other public institutions
had an unusually small number of deaths there being
those Of Brooklyn The entire excess of the weeks death
list is found in the common dwellings and tenement
houses Of the two cities and within the limits Of certain
well defined sections that are afflicted with the greatest
quantity kinds o local causes of dlaTrheal DIS
cases. and of course ID chiefly this kind OF Summer res
thence hegOen and nurtured by lth surfsee molstsre,
and continued high temperature that has csused the e1
The overwhelming effects of heat in tAe week that
ende on the nth INST caused its aeaes deT % rec c
plainly enough caused more than 2O0 other deaths, 80
that the total mortality in the CITY and institutions fOoteo
U at S2 Tho night and day mean temperature IN !hat
week $50 FahT With an occasional maximum tlat
mounted ADORE 1929 IN the most shaded places OIL the
streets, and with an average OF eaOspherN hunadS
equal fortunately TO only eo1O0 OF total sataton st
week the mean temperature was S Fahr or ten degrees
lover than that of the preceding, and With maxnaa
| scarcely reaching 90o but the atmospheric mels-
salf tho week, and averaging 1910 Of total
tauration Rsn fell every day, except cn the ga ms.
every Source OF purescence and uneleGnlness and IL
| did reveal them Ard notwithstanding the peasant
Temperature and the Obscured ho natural chemistry
| of decayng vegetable and animal matter has nnally
become source of needless mora me 6is MAJ PuTeSu
mHrked the places IN which 5ss persons died ef acute
dt,rrhea maades eorreoyshows in what sections ana
streets of the city nth and their causes are pre-
dominant all ether parts of the Gity ana N al 9 in
respects than these. the state OF Tue puolc "o'' "
New-Yogk at present quite as good rs usual
The experience Of the sanitary olccrs tnis nTayant
hoth neetienoe and panic is TO know ana lfeIao iot
whatever dangeris threatening and as e,erss M Sad
Watclfu sanitary police, and timely use 81 proper G
nfectans whenever neGda S1h ese de
Hegieoied IN any y nor by e PitCe ca, tS hosel dis
aes and the excessive Inortay occur, the last week
gave such increase OF fatality IA TINS css ob
h oun persons ae leads ply scians now 10 observe hu
report them with special care Yet notwl5hSthunS wit M
there IS deaths by cholera mGIDns % anu
no group Of two moro such fatal cases III .hu sam"
honse or in any one block Of houses has yet occurred
IT. Viii I've Observed that the doatrate has fallen off in
both cities fully equal to the absence OF tne
fatal effects of heat week before last Zymoc canses
last Gek are charged with 1891 per cent Of the whole
list OF deaths In York and with G0A per cent OF al
i'm Brookyn but nearly ninetens OF this class on deaths
are also charged to the bowel disorders Considerably
more than half of all the mortality IN both cities was at
of infants under their first year. and so per cent OF te
total mortality i'll each city was in children uhuer he
The particular localities in which the deathrate has
most rapidly and treatnngy increase shond % ge %
fE w. nSes as p1.e and m in the
city, there death 10 every 500 inhaoltans, ana
70 per centum of this mortality was by absolute daIrhea
disorders In the Fifth Ward with low deathrate TIL
within three weeks there was one death 10 about every
ESQ of its inhahtants pools OF filth along the entire west
side OF this Ward garbage III every gutter anu stag
nant sewerage ample causes. The Eghth Malu Nus
of its population cent by filth poisons Iho EleV-
enth Thirteenth, and Seventeenth buried one III every
1000 living and IS cent by filth and gutter poisons
while in the Twentieth and Twenty second Walds-lat
uray salubrOus, but now scky-he inhabitants ded at
than III 900, ana IL IS
there that the removable sources OF damage 10
life most nperatively call for action The Fourth sixth
and Tenth Wards which far cleaner and better oce
than in any former Summer for twenty years suffer no
perceptble rise in their deathraes and they give very
few diarrheal deaths. In the SXtl-the ignob!e flve
Points dstrict-in its entire crowded mass OF 10000
squsd ignorant and improvident population there were
only deaths by the darrheal disorders including cholera
infanum and only Is by all while IN tile three
wards here mentioned, and which, within two years ana
for the past generation steadily claimed the highest
deathrates and in three epidemcs the worst OF
"clolera fields" find that In all this hot weather. and
in the trying period Of last week. the rate OF mortality
and most ALL the most fatal disease OF the week Was
scarcely half destructive as was experienced IN the
high and airy Twenty Ward, and was less than
half that which the Fifth Ward is suffering, from evils
that the city itself has created
The different sections Of Brooklyn are teaching pre-
csely the same sanitary lessons that New York Is Civ
ing And both cities the most important duty Is that
which enforces cleaning and sanitary care IN every
household and every place At this trying period what
ever peril may exist from an exotic nfeetion-yz, the
sefcTeated nusances which abound In these cities ana
which the people themselves and must help 10 re-
move and prevent the only enemies TO life that We
fear l.. HARRIS