Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-11-05
Beard Of Health.
AN ALLEGED SMALL Pox NEST ON VAN STREET
MoRTUARY REPORT FOR OCTOBER.
A meeting of the board of he alth was hall Il =,

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MoRTUARY REPORT FOR OCTOBER.
A meeting of the board of health was held last
night, and the physicians to the poor reDorted
$50 vaccinations during the past week.
The report OF the Coroner. DIR. Patterson was
presented, showing that during October he
viewed and held inquests or Is dead bodies The
health cThcer reported thirteen cases of small
PoX during the past four DAYS; four of the pum-
Der died and five were removed to the hospital
Inc sanitary inspectors reported 572 nuisances
LOT the week past; 3I of which were abated, lis
aeI ,, to the board of public works; 2T dead
animals were removed.
Dr. Verdi made a special report as to the con-
clifton OF Van street, between Sd and A. streets
and NJ and streets southwest Dryerdi states
that Inspector Stewart had reported on the
subject TO him, and he (Dr. W had made a
personal inspection of the premises. He saws:
. hey are squalid, dirty, unhealthy habitations
The ventilation is totally inadeq uate; they are
unprovided wi. h any drain whatever. There
are fifteen shaDties in the row, giving shelter to
about seyenty-fve families. Several cases of
smallpox have occurred in this locality, and If
IT had not been for the vigilance Of our service
In promptly removing cases and disnfecting
the premises, the smallpox would have spread
like wildfre throug hout the neighborhood." Dr.
Verdi urges "the importance of enactne an
ordinance establishing the number of cubic feet
required by each person in the occupancy Of a
dwelling, for the ordinance against over crowded
tenement houses in our code of health is too
indefinite 10 have any legal force. IN a row
next to the row Of wood shsnties there ar
eleven houses, each containing four small
-ooms; yet in one NO. 343) there live three fam
lies, making an aggregate of ten persons. II,
No. 35S there live three families, with en- aggrs-
gate OF fourteen persons" &c.
Dr. VERDI moved that the shanties referred q
be declared nuisance injurious 20 health, and
that the owner he notified 10 abate the SANE
within seven days, with the exception ii such
OF said shanties in which the SMALLPOX las
recently occurred. The inhabitants of the IN
fected shanties shall remain until all danger OF
contagiOn Is passed, then they shall be notified
to leave, and the shanties DESTROYED in the
presence of an officer of this board In the follow
ing manner: They shall be demolished by per
sons having had the small pox, the boards piled
and well covered with earth, then burned in the
manner adopted in making charcoal. The mo-
ton was carried.
The president submitted the mortuary report
for October showing 164 deaths against 2Js in
Septenber) of which 81 were white anu 20 col
ored, males and 81 females, 81 were under
years OF age and above 100. The principal
causes OF disease were-Cholera nfantum Is;
smallpox, 10; typhoid fever, I; murder, 8; ma
rasmus, &; phthisis, II; dysentery 4; commissions
Z; congestion of the brain, 3; diptheria, 3;
diarIhes, 4; disease of the brain, s. and men
nights, 4.
On motion of DR.. Bliss, the president was re-
QuesteC to ask the Governor to dismiss A
GI1gsby and G. IL. Newman, sesyensers, for
neglect Of duty.