New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-11

A rUoRouGH INSPECTION OF TENEMENTs TO
RE MADE FEARFUL MORTALITY AMONG
CHILDREN.
The Board of Health received yesterday
report from Assistant Health Inspector Leo relative 70
the condition Of the Rendering Companys per- anu INC
slaughterhouse Of Donohue Co. On the occasion Vi
the oa boat was lying the pier The stern
Of the boat was nled with ofal. which emitted ure"u
full stencil on street leading to the pier were Two
dead horses, in advanced state of decomposition On
visiting d. DoDOhue & Co.'s slaughter-house, Dr' b1o
found men saugherng violation Of the orders OF the
Board Donohue was held 10 bail IN $500 await trial
The report was referred TO the Sanitary Committee.
The City saniary Inspector submitted report setting
forth that certain of the of the Harlem Railroad
Company containing brewers grain, and other refuse
were allowed to stand the beside the depot at
FOurth-ave and Forty that the leakage from
the cars had saturated the ground, causing very
offensive smell and that these had for long
time very serious nuisance TO residents The report
referred to the Committee Law and Ordinances,
who will meet to-day. The Sanitary Committee
mends that the railroad company be compelled TO
special cars water-ight and covered in such way a.
not to allow the rays OF the sun to reach the grain
malt
A communication was received from Commissioner
Van Mort, complaining that oa and other deleeriOus
matter dumped in the slip near the public BATH az the
loot OF Chares Referred 70 the City Sanitary Inspec
tor.
Commissioner Smith offered resolutions nstrueting the
City Sanitary Inspector IN conducting the inspection OF
tenementhOuses pursuant 10 the orders Of the Board to
all violations OF Section Of the TenementbOuse
Act, and also OF the Sanitary Ordinances respect
the cleanliness OF the apartments halls, starways pas
sages walls ceilings areas courts cellars Yards alleys
and outhouses TO be carefully noted and directing him
whenever II shau appear mat any building or part
thereof is unfit for human habitatiOn by OF ltd
want Of repair report the fact the Board pro
yided by Section II OF the Tenement-house Act. The
City SANITARY Inspector shall also cause the Ordinances
OF the Board regulating the Of articles Of food and
providing for the removal Of such articles deemed
nnsound or unwholesome 10 be enforced The resolu-
uuauiTnOuElW aNOUfpQ.
Commissioner Gross reported that 40 miles OF streets
and cutters had been dsueced during the past week,
at cost OF t2iG 50, ana 500 in addition appror
ated. Commissioner Mullaly called attention To the
filthy condition OF ThIrtysxth-st., between Second and
Thrd-aves
Col George Bliss IT,, appeared counsel for Messrs
licenses have been revoked, and against whom actions
nave been begun for violations OF the orders Of the
partiaty shown by the Board; that while the per
ms OF the petitioners were revoked, Smith Ely Jr, the
Fat Meters Association, and others allowed 20
gage IN the business although their machinery and
pances better than those OF the petitioners II
they were 10 remove they hoped that the same
course would be pursued toward others. Counsel
proceeding with elaborate speech in behalf OF his
clients when he wa interrupted by Commissioner Barr
who declared that the memorial insult 70 the
Board, and objected TO a further hearing The Board
refused 20 receive the memorial.
The Register OF Records presented report OF which
During the past week there were registered 1869
deaths being an increase upon tie previous week of
SOL and OF $50 the spending week Of
past year Zymotc diseases oceasoned $50 deaths;
causes, latal or smallpox increased
from q 10 2 those OF measles from Is TO 49, those OF
scaratna from II 20 49, those of typhoid fever, from
70 TO- those OF eryspelas from OF puerperal
fever IRON 10 4 those of cerebropna fever from u
10 49, and those OF dlarrheal affections from 266 &c.,
The deaths by dpthera and Group diminished from Is
10 10, and those by whOoplng cough amounted to the
number -, IN the previous week. The mortality
OF phthsls pumOnas from SO 20 81; that OF the
local respiratory affections from As 10 S. OF which pneu
mona furnished Deaths persons succumbed to the
effects Of. solar heat, the greatest weekly
mortality IRON TINS ever recorded in this city,
uynfN Rua nVn n AT
a. lsd6, during which 25 such registered.
The temperature OF that week Ice less than
that closed. The total mortality OF the
week has been equaled III the history of New
York. The next largest number OF draths 1852, was
gistered the ending July 81 1866 The deadly
influence OF the intense heat and high humidity Of the
past exhibited not only directly IN the great
number Of victims " sunstrOke, many OF whom were
persons in robust health, but also indirectly an
OF death in of persons suffering from
every variety OF disease sixtyhree per cent OF the
total mortality occurred among children less than
OF aud 81 deaths among persons 10 years old
aud upward