New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
ANALYSIS OF TIE CRoToN An RIDGEwoor
WATERS.

ANALYSIS OF TIE CRoTON A'.D RID6EwoOD
WATERS.
At the meeting of the Board of Health yes
terday Dr. submitted thA following report on the
public health for the quarter ending October l. 1869:
The week and the thirteen weeks which ended the
favorable record OF pubic health and the chance of life
N New.York, than has been known during the past
twenty years Autnmn 6nds the city free from every
KIND OF epidemic disease, and suffering only very little
frsm any kind OF Fever Infection scaratina is charged
With only deaths last week and IL the last month ;
typhus charged with only death in the week I'm Eml
grant Hospital and in the roonth. and enter1c or
Upheld fever caused only 80 deaths In the month Inc
whole number OF deaths last week S7 or IA less ta
in the week and IS less than AM IN RS Tse
deaths In Brooklyn during the week; and IN 1857 aDd
1862 successfully there were 1sl and l96 deaths in tt
city In the week In comparing the records
Of 1896 1867 1868 and 1863 in the corresponding thirteen
weeks OF the year. We have the tohOWlnE ,oso
Total number deaths Yev.YOrk in srst o, .o,
rs.ainunSsr Of deaths in EcsYorE second a.,
Total S SaH ss1; 81 q ssa. S New YORK. IN i '
'Sr week, Of mir S' EO' 1' i'"
teeHth or last wssk...-..........--,A 40 49 %2 S'
Total .,nser Of deaths in the thru quarter Of
the 9fSJ S4Oo 500 "'s0
These statistics especially instructive when studied
with reference TO the particular causes and ocatles IN
which the rate OF mortality has been reduced Inc ue
tails of this subject need not be reeted but they al
show that nearly all the gain to fe has occurred ~ n
SSTbess and the cohesive diseases Of the lungs and
brain The wards aud districts OF the city ID wboh
ventilation Of crowded tenementhouses are tne regions
which this decrease Of mortality has chiefly occurred
For example in the Twentieth Ward there were Out 40
deaths 5000 inhabitants last week lin the
there were deaths upward OF 5OOOO while In the
wretehed tenemens of the Fourth Ward there were 10
deaths about 1900 There only deaths III the
Fifteenth Ward with its nearly 10000 lnhaOltapts
the IOOO annually, estimated population OF LOW
and in Brooklyn IL II ca on estimated popua-
OF Dlarrhca diseases are charged with o5
deaths in NewYOTK, which is less than 4A per cent OF
the total mOrtaiiy and in Brooklyn the bowel disor-
ders are charged with "a Deaths little over l5t per
cent OF the total These more favorable or lower
Leathrates than those experienced in London and other
The rate London and the 10 chief cities OF Great
that week Is deaths 70 every 200 nhabit
yearly. In Liverpool II was 80 in LOO In Pars III
% 1000; in Vienna, a per 1000 ana IN vienna
The vital statistics OF NewI 0rk ana BrOoB'
during the post three months clearly enough snow
that these be- and for the present al least arc
the heahiest Of any commercial towns OF eQuaIy
crowded population the city Of Paris alone eXceptN.
Favorable as the has been 10 public health, the
l0ngcontinued drouth brought into view some sources
danger o sanitary welfare The city sewers ana
cutters and surface NTH remained Unfinished Dy water,
and REQUIRED incessant watchuness The Croon water
supply rapidly diminished TO give Just anxiety 10
people from the increase OF impurities resulting
OF the stream and reservoirs 10 was
Fortunately all anxiety the latter subject 10 at an
end The suboined abstract from the weekly analysis Oh
the Croton and the Rdgewood water supplies are Iur-
nshed the Boards Assistant Chemist II appears the
erganc and the total solid residue IN the water
became greatly increased during the drouth These re-
cults are calculated for 100000 parts OF water:
OF