New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-13

Of the British Registrar General. During
the first three months Of 1872 the deatl-rate
of London was in the annual proportion of
| twenty-fOur per thousand Of the population,
that of Paris was twentv-three per thousand,
and that Of New York thirty-two per thou
sand. That is to say, the chances of life ia
NeW ork appear to be One-third less than
IN either OF the two great capitals of Europe.
Berlin was the only important European city
IN which the rate OF mortality was so high,
but Berlin was suffering during the first three
months of the year from an exceedingly fatal
visitation of small-pox-causing an average
of seventyone deaths a week in a population
of S26, 900. During the first quarter of the
year the death-rate of New York was actu-
ally greater than that of the East Indian
cities Of Bombay and Calcutta, and only a
trifle less than that of Madras.
One very suggestive item of our bills of
mortality should not pass unnoticed. We
seem to maintain q very unenviable superb
ority over the great cities of Europe in the
weekly number Of deaths from violent causes.
During the first quarter of the year the deaths
in London from different forms of violence
are set down at G39. As New Y DIRK shows
weekly average Of about thirty-three deaths,
from violent causes, our return for the same
period may be put down at 100. 1t will thus
be seen that in a population, less by upward
OF two-thirds, we have but One-third less of
deaths by violence. In other words, taking
the quarter as the standard for the year,
there are in the British metropolis eight peO-
pie in every ten thousand who come to their
death from violent causes in year, while in
New York there are eighteen in ten thou
sand. These figures need but little comment.
They may help the public to understand,
however, that our persistent complaints
against the Board of Health and the late
STRENGTHENING Commission were prompted
by the existence of very tangible evils, and
that the frequent reference made in these
columns TO the reckless disregard of human
life and safety in this city is founded on very
indubitabe facts.-N. y. Times.
Mrs. DR.. Tarr has assumed editorial CEN
troll of the Denton (Md.) Journal, in the place
of her deceased husband. a similar example
occurred in Maryland many years ago, when
Miss Goddard undertook to publish and edit
the Maryland Journal and baltimore Adretiser,
which her father founded in 1873. His daugh-
ter continued at her labors during the ReYo-
lutionary war, maintaining the cause of her
country modestly but firmly.
AT a recent woman suffrage meeting in
London the hall was so crowded that when
the speakers arrived they couldn't get in.
Mrs. Prof. Fawcett and others climbed in by
ladder at window, back of the stage, and
when she came to speak said: "We are told
that women have not so much energy as men.
/ deny it. A moment ago | was outside of
this room in the thick of n crowd with Mr..
Arthur Arnold. Mr.. Arnold is still in the
crowd. / am here" The little woman was
roundly applauded.
The political campaign seems to develop
wit and humor. The Boston Traveller has
discovered prediction in Shakespeare on the
reelection of Grant: " A tanner will last
you eight years"