The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-08

Nfeeeing Of he Beard Of Health. ca
The usual weekly session OF this Board was held
yesterday, Commissioner George B. Lincoln in the
chair .8r pTivs Fo2Jiw Tz ulw spto Tr
After aconaidsrabls amount Of routine business
Vas transacted
Commissioner Smith called attention 70 tho
Alarming increase Of mortality among children
In tenement houses. For the past week or zen
days this was particularly noticeable and Was OF
that degree Of importance that he thought the boafd
should take some action in the matter He tlouens
the cause was attributable 70 the use o. mPI0Perf
rules for distribution among the poorer classes OF
citizens who 1--we In tenement houses Inc suugocs
was referred 70 the Sanitary ~ tha on
the Manhattan and other gas companies IN TINS CITY
oay aaates he snI Board but this time il
a II some action may be taken to abate re mus.
ance Doctors Harris ana Sn DOM ,
in that portion Of the city lying between Fourteenth
and streets ana rne s0r 70 h anG and
Injurious to fife. These gentlemen say that tney
made the examination themselves, and were salts
ned that the public health suffered In consequence.
The Was referred to the counsel Of the Board.
with power 10 institute legal proceedings. Nv
Health of the Metropolis. i-a'. 81
Dr. e. Harris of the Bureau or Vital Statistics
Metropollta Board Of Health yesterday published his
weekly statement of the health Of the city, which,
because OF Its unusual interest we herewith publish
ct LENGTH ta rcGa eA3 FIJI 4-fota
In the week that ended on the 4th inst, there ap-
pears to have been no increase IN the influences
which war against human life In the metropolis until
the excessive heat Of Friday and Saturday came
upon u.s. In the seven days ending Saturday, at
noon there were only s deaths IN New YORK ana
ported TO the Board OF Health in the city OF New
York, exclusive Of the public institutions. Nearly
the sameincrease Of mortality have been experienced
In Brooklyn the past three days. i-ai1-
From the beginning Of the week the temperature
has ranged from 70 degrees TO So degrees, when on
Friday it rose to ~ degrees and on Saturday went
up to 90 degrees, and kept at mean Of 81 degrees
the atmosphere kept low as 66loo OF total satura
ton. There were only deaths by sunsroke or inso-
Saturday afternoon and Sunday is not yet .ascer.
tanned. Some IS or more lives were lost in this way
In this city and they were mostly oyorworkedl or
The zymotic diseases have not increased except In
regard to those that affect the bowels, and these
third Of the zymotic mortality last week; they
caused 81 deaths in New York and 10 In Brooklyn,
soyed ins ash eh lives Gloup city anS 20 in
latter. Cholera infantum and scarlatina were the
chief fatal agents Of zymotic kind the latter dis.
complaint, or cholera OF infants, Is spring
Ing INFO dire activity wherever filth is
of the nurslings Is the most faithful OF sanitary
monitors for where these little ones perish there Is
some damage done TO the health OF cne surrounding
pOpulatons There Ia great lesson in the fact that
there were only Is funerals in the Fifteenth ward or
New York., and but In the Third and in the,
Eighteenth wards Of Brooklyn. last week, or only
death TO- 5000 Inhabitants in these healthful and
Clearly sections, while In the slums OF the sixteenth
In the latter city and In the tenement and shanty
population OF the Twenty second ward In New York
there was 1 death IN every 1900 Inhabitants;
and there died 24s persons in crowded
Cured in private houses hotels and boarding houses
In other Words the mortality was three times greater
In the tenant house population than In hotels and
private houses Of all kinds Scaatina found IA out
of II of s Victims In tenements measles found 6out
children they killed. In these crowded dwelling
places OF poorer classes there Is needed kind OF
practical philanthropy, INCREASINGLY at work to In
ruct and help the people escape the foes that ever
menace them. E. HARRIS.
Reorganization of ages, sexes and nativities OF
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