The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-17

Average temperature wednesday. -. ......... S.
The Board OF Health, alarmed at the returns which
Vital Statistics making strenuous efforts to place
the city In the best possible sanitary condition, and
to be fa @
ever continue another week. there ia little question
as to the result. 1t will be next to impossible to
as there are obnoxious places in the city the Board
cannot reach, and II reached which its On1cers can
not wholly control t an nsse may be
derng tenement houses, not one OF which should be
permitted an hours existence. We have no desire
to aterfere with the "vested rights" OF landlords
but we hold that the public wel-being is superior
even to the bank accounts OF these men; and fur
sther that death brought about by any 81 kness OF
which they are the cause Is simply murder. There
are caravanseries in this city under the roofs OF
which reside from twenty to one hundred families,
packed away In small illvenated and poorly Lighted
apartments, consisting in many instances OF one
dark bedroom and one small sitting, cooking, eat
ing, washing and working room, and how, there
FORE Is It possible for these families living in such
close proximity, without sufficient yard room
in which to dry their clothes to keep clean to live
purely-in Hne to avoid disease, or which by their
unhappy condition they the unconscious breeders9
We question If any other city on the globe would
permit the erection of such terrible pest houses;
and why are they allowed hereS For the sanitary
regulation OF the city many rules ought to be put
and kept In force and not the least among these the
prohibition OF more than four families as perma-
nent residents, on lot, the area OF which Ia less
than seven thousand feet, except in hotels, where
police regulations as regards ventilation, cleanliness,
&c., are rigldly enforced.
A NEW REMEDY FOR sUNsTRoKE.
correspondent sends the annexed remedy for
sunstr0ke, which, he thinks "may prove OF some
service during the warm weather TO those suffering
from the effects Of heat:r-In Egypt, where sun
some salt In water and pour 1t into the OF the
patient. This almost Immediately relieves the suf-
ferer. We know not what the effect, simple in Its
character beyond the statement OF our correspOn-
dent, OF this remedy would be, but its application
could not injure the patient. Should 1t prove an
active agent il would have a tendency to dssipate
tha "a
person 10 the heat OF the MONDAY sun. IL might
even do more-save the lives OF hundreds who are
swept out Of existence simply because OF the great
ignorance which prevails among medical men as To
the most efficient manner OF approaching aud treat
ing cases OF coup de soiiei
THE DEATH LIST YESTERDAY.
The following named persons are reported to have
died yesterday from the effects OF the heat
Daniel Gantz, No. 243 Mulberry street.
Bridget Glinn, No. 232 Mott street.
Richard +. Denning No. sl3 Eleventh avenue.
Thomas Pendergast No. LA West Nineteenth
- Harris, East Broadway and Chatham street.
George Ortiz, No. e3s Eighth avenue.
Christiana Grencr, 12lst street.
James Gallagher, No. SO Watts street
James n. Ritter pier No. IA East river.
An unknown passenger on board the steamer
Charles Rosseie. No. Frankfort street.
An unknown man died In the Fifteenth precinct
MARY KeIIar, No. 10 Cherry street.
Christ an Kobb No. ~ Dominick street.
Unknown man, No. 5o7 Ninth avenue.
Unknown man, 81. Luke's Hospital.
David Johnson, No. 81 East Eghty-sixth street.
Unknown man, al the Morgue
Hannah Curtain, No. ~ Mulberry street.
Eliza Grove, No. 403 Tenth street.
Peter sculy, No. 4e4 West Forty-hrst street.
Unknown man, No. 81 Monroe street.
Francis Debuglish, No. 80 Cherry street.
VIM. II. o'Bren, No; 2s5 East Houston street.
Infant. No. 80 Attorney street.
James II. Trip, ship Panther, pier No. IA East
xr~,.. ~, t,~o-x~ $780,.
John Landhurst, No. "a Monroe street.
John M. Maor H.. CITY Hospital.
p Cullen City Hospital.
Otto Rodewold, No. 4os Eighth avenue found
Unknown man, Frustrated on Seventh avenue,
near Thirtv.fourth street, at halfpast nine A. NJ.
was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at
noon.
James Barry, aged forty years, residence West
Fifty.third street. wasCbrought to Mount Sinai Hos.
ptal at noon and died two hours subsequently.
teeah street, died AZ feryye minutes psst ye
p M. from sunstroke
Joseph Horton, residence 25s Tenth avenue.
Unknown man, Frustrated by the heat ON We'd
nesday, died Yesterday at i27 West Twentyseventh
one Of the firm Of n. 4 M. Bentz, aged forty.two.
Mr. Bentz was Frustrated at the corner Of Macdouga
street and Clinton place at noon. Medical assist.
snce was Immediately rendered, but without avail.
An unknown man, Eighth avenue.
sebastian Nichols, No: west Thirty seventh street.
Kooert huDneI, br0adWay and Eighth street.
James Allen, No. 263 West Seventeenth street
George L. Lecthenauers No. 100 Bowery.
Joseph Carton, No. 26s Tenth avenue.
CASUALTIES.
Under this head will be found the names OF persons
who were Frustrated BY the heat yesterday and were
conveyed 70 some Of the hospitals brought 70 their
homes u. t.l0
Richard Mcdonald, No. as First avenue.
Catherine Deguisn, No. COZ West Twenty-ninth
street. ~,
Mary McNamara, Duane street and City Han place.
victor Bertrand. vandam and 0rsenwich streets.
william II. Knoft, No. Ill EldridGe street.
Ar unknown man IN r'fsa svsnas near rsnsA
Christian Shaker, SCUM Broadway. yonksrs
An unknown man, In mont OF ths Holman House.
JosePn Roysm mvng u procklyn
Michael Peton, Barclay street.
Abraham GsrhA Twenty-nfsh police statien house.
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Michael Denny, Meyenth street.
william T. Ellery, uo rs ElGhth ovonuA