The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-03
METROPOLITAN BOARD or Heal


mortality in this city and Brooklyn during tho week
ending Saturday, December rs -
METROPOLITAN BOARD or HRALrH,(
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. jan 2, 1858.
the last ten days Of the year just ended there
$50 deaths In New York, and 2l0 in Brooklyn. This Is
equal yearly death rate OF 20 81 In 000 In the for
mer and 20 Is in 900 the latter city, the population
being estimated 600 and 370 600 In the respective
cities he resident population al this season Is believed
TO exceed these totalsl This death rate s lower than
that Of the chief cities Of Great Britain IN the first week
OF December for In London that week Dr. Farr reports
death rate equal to ~ IN 1000; In Ednburg 81 per
1000 in Dublin rs per l000 In Glasgow SO per 1000,
temperature Of the air in London that week was 35
while In New York the past ten days was IS degrees
Fahrenheit or only ITO Of degree colder than in Lon
Old age the frat i've years OF childhood yielded
heavy tribute to the great reaper The cold continues
at those periods OF lie or infants in their first year
there perished la3 In New York and 90 in Brooklyn, or
246 per cent OF the total mortality the former and
25.9s per cent in the latter city. The child mortality
under the fifth year OF amounted to 25l or % %
per cent in New York and to i9, o. 81 cent, In
Brooklyn. Nearly IL per cent OF the total mortality in
both cities occurred in that portion OF the population
which has passed the sixcth year Of age. DscreetIy
bestowed charities OF food clothing fuel ana personal
advice TO the needy classes would save much life and
health In this nclcment Of the year. Viewed in
the ight Of public economy against pauperism and vice.
public benefits 10 addition to all the good that charities
like these can bring to the needy themselves
The year which has just closed will forever keep tho
memorials OF the 49, 40 inhabitants OF New York and OF
the 1925 people Of Brooklyn that died in these twelve
montha Some strangers In midst; many
others were homeless, vagrant and destitute than
500 were immigrants that had been less than hvo years
our shores, and some others seanen The hos
pilals and public institutions OF New York buried Of
these Glasses upwards Of who received the
medical and public charity which those institutions
persons and nearly 600 OF these children under
i've years Of age, and 1000 in rsnnd numbers we're in
fants In theis first year.
The detailed records OF these deaths and their
worthy Of all the study which sanitary officers
bestow upon them, for notwithstanding great gain
to life and health the past year. the fact 10 ndisputable
that large but ever nuctnating proportion OF the
tally justly chnrgeable 70 causes that and ought
TO be prevented Tho share which the dis
bear in the Of death considerably exceeds
onefourth part OF the WHOLE The zyrnotic diseases
alone caused nearly 900 Of the mortality New York
and 500 or that In Brooklyn thirty per lin
Of these cities.
There good to believe that of the avoid
able and preventabe OF the high death
these cities being brought under CONTROL for not
only have witnessed reduction Of 3645 in the total
mortality New York the past year, but II appears that
this gain has been made In places and upon
have long been operating with o kind Of reentness
enmty against life and health in particular districts Of
the metropolis But ceaseess vigilance Is the price OF
sanitary security in such concentrated populations as
crowding with constantly increasing density in the
streets Of New York and Brooklyn. And while infants
perish by thousands In the cradle, and while and
women cut Off by preventable causes at the very
threshold OF useful life, there will continue be
popular demand for fearless aud faithful nqustion
gardng the responsible sources for all such premature
mortality.