New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

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Oh the uscnaries table OF mortality, and per cent
tnteTest In NewYOrk State the basis ls a taD9
ahieav from the experience OF our largest American
0nSy Sb,eb the results of such selection are ellmn-
ated and ~ per cent interest Having an az 80 I
termine It's condition detailed list OF assets ana ap
g. under ts polces s given side 10y SIDE encn year IN
the Massachusetts, insurance reports anu WI. Oe
hereafter in the York reports Oh S t
car be relied upon, that II VIII De lmI9seDle oI q
bankrupt company 70 escape rasting from such diss,
Syreable failures as have lately been seen IN ~
snce he United states without defects on the con
Irary It's defects are many and gneyousi pu d Uni
Syowth Notwithstanding these defects life insurance
sss dome and win do in future an immense smOunt Oh
1000 SOps NE TeAeeon that his family viii be
yfded for and many sick has been saved from
s foTeht sL6rn OF these defects there no reason
why large percentage OF all the surplus us bfe
whole people should not be invested III some Ior VI '
Insurance -,,-,, ,,,.o,o0
In the evening large audience assembled ana hsteAeu
20 brief and wellconsdered paper by Judge Georse
po-@t on the administration OF criminal 1uS1oe III
New-YorR ,,.v. =, pr,lio Health
DR.. Elisha Harris. superintendent OF fuohc heS'H'
.oaaadsd Iudge arrett with an important paper on
uR.rTu Avs AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION
y,noovor ooes down among the nearly seven hundred
,horsand people who dwell in overcrO%oed teheuien'
honses I'm the City of NewYOrk win find thaG ne"l'n
Laws and Sanitary regulations must, OF necessity be ~
very first among all means for promoting the social wei
faro Of the masses And whoever looks upon the vast
ahroue Of immigrants daily disembarked at tins porI
and follows them in their distribution TO lodging houses
or 70 country towns need not fail to see how Is that an
Unparalleled condensation OF population is being pro-
dueed among u.s. Looking in upon these masses OF hu'
panity and seeing what ignorance, mprovldepee, un'
CLEANLINESS dependence suffering, disease ana nlSE,
10 health and the social state sn[TOupSH I
these classes Of our population r1ooi ue Laws
seems plainly enough TO be one OF the nrst rguoS
and duties which society owes TO ltse and 's %
members IL may be an incurable defect IN cFiinIal
at least its msforune-that ~ SIG
nally fails to reform the criminal or 70 greatly h
laws and administration society experiences an ao
ysntage that ought under proper spd o@mHnitje
that are i'm any restrained or cOMPeeu ~
tiers OF obedience and compliance that the repeton VI
Ssobedienf arts and the causing producing OF any
Injury TO the public health VIII not knoWiusp 10 ~
sisted I'm except under the influence OF cupdly OF reeA
lessnees No Board OF Health or sanitary officer need
expect great IN improving tue puoo ~
dueing deatbrates removing and preventing nusances
or giving popular effect sanitary laws In any manner
II the principles Of the ldiSseatre school are adopted IN
m tbe SANITARY Code In the face Of pestenee or any
other peril TO the Iubc health timld OF va Sa d
thence ITSELF But It is equally true that oceIs aIu
Boards Of Health that recognize the duty Oh eAecs
only purely authoritative and eoereiye measures We
they disregard the auxiliary or educating agencies %
sanitary system Will tS 70 as nn se he S sanitary gov
eminent Already we witness the nIst fruits O an ~
Hoard Of Health began its work 1866 the 1880 tene
seemed 70 defy ali efforts and plans for their improve
mept Now we able 10 report that In inc past hne
been ventilated from cellar garrett in the manner re-
0uired by law aud that in this great improvement the
tnral alterations had ordered, and that by far the
greater part Of this work has been promptly aho onee
fully performed by the owners without legal cOnro-
versy At the beginning Of the present year the cellar
nomination in NewYOTk amounted 10 between lo0 anu
~ loOn VIII "A lmmQVaDle
an their dark dens But during the past few months up
ward OF one hundred Of the lowest and most pOpOus OF
these deps OF death have vacated by the Boards
orders, aud instance thus far mas IL Dee I9unu
necessary TO any force or TO procure wits OF ec
ent against the miserable occupants Again. In deal
ing with contagious diseases It is found nat the masses
OF the people yield cheerful compliance with Whatever
requirements ahd advice the sanitary authorities pro
pose. For instance, causes that need not mere
more than 100 different places in the city aud
distributed 1t all the way rom the BatteTy 70
manner as to insure its rapid aud widespread ravaees
During the preceding Two years s1 sgs ae1aoa
and in opposition TO the concern OF sanitary 0Ieets
hSS at last become imminent 25 cases Of smallpox had
been discovered in the city fst day OF Jan
for systemato canvassug by hOusetohOuse visitation,
throughout entire city was put Operat0n ana by the
physieans we're added to the twenty already
on duty Sanitary inspectors, ana the whole
toulouse Vaccination These gentlemen could En
use no coercye meSsuresn te 'sS 5nty " SuV
Tbs course un6sTred ain DOORS and broke down all OPP
position They tTiumphed ia the work and thereby con-
ferred benefit upon the metropolis which saved many
hundred lives, and protected its commercial interests
Tesned from the continued and increased ravages Of
this OathsOme cOntagOn In the SIX weeks endhg Jlne
oyepeS and paced under sanitary care in the Sixteenth
and Twentieth Wards alone. The work OF vaccination III
until Oct 10 only three cases OF smallpox were
found in the sixteenth and Spy four IN tne
than 10000 people mostly In tenemenhouses ana the
named proved to those who had not received the boon
the Boards vaccnating corps offered rom house 10
house The illustrations we have here given concerning
some Of the practical results OF sanitary laws might be
multiplied almost indefinitely for IN Whatever oreetl0n
and against whatever OF nsalubty these laws
have been brought 70 BEAR IL is found that success In
their application has been invariably ioiowed by IN
OF general information concerning the reasons and
necessity for each particular Improvement The only
other subject will mention TO illustrate the views
method of sanitary inquiry which requires the regsta-
ton and severely accurate ana ANALYTICAL use OF sases
nnder authority Of the Board OF Health we have for
Two years caused o tenement houses house by
hOnse block by block, and street by street The total
months ending Oct J. this year, is found 10 have
amounted TO 1921. while In the corresponding nine
Of the 1895 the total number OF deaths In the
OF houses though that class has Increased
during the present year. was S or l452 IN excess OF
Lhe total of this yeer Further u is found that TINS gain
90 life in the metropolis the past nine months has
been confined exclusively 70 tenement dwellings, when
estimated thus by the aggregate method Again, upon
closer analysis We have ascertained that, in
particular blocks Of Which
brought under the thorough reforms in ventilation
quired by the Health Law the total mortality has been
diminished al the u.s. 90 and 80 per cent be-
low the deathrae Of the previous year Though 1t Is
true that this gain has been witnessed chiefly In child
life, and especially ip regard to pulmonary diseases and
diseases affecting the brain and nervous system, even
this feature Of the gain makes the lesson all the more In
strDctye On the other hand, we have found
that IN particular piles OF tenelnents that re-
main entirely unrefOrmed not only has no
gain to the chance, Of life been expsTienced, but
on the contrary the losses have continued TO increase
EOr
Church property as Nos. 8, Z and MulbefTyst men
toned at page 576 OF the Third Annual Report Of the
Board OF Health as having buried as Of the wretched
tenants i'm the fret nine months OF 1865 has during the
arsf nine nontbs OF 1859 given 10 tile