The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-11
al nasienia in Decen1Ler. ISL. Nunbat la

Of patients in December, 1871. Number ta
persons treated since that time 70 JannaSr
~, 1873, are rs follows: Whifc, IL c08arads
Is. Discharged from hospital: Whitss ~
coored, 2. Died: White, I; cofoyed,
Number Of patients remaining: Wnlfes q:
colored, 5. Disbursements on ACCOUNT Gf
the hospital, SS,sS3.27 80 Z
POLICE DEPARraEsy. S.: @ s
Major John Poe, Chief of Police, pre-
sented his third annual report 06icefs and
sergeaDts, B; priyates, 81 detecffyeD q.
rhe following changes have taken piaee
ring the year: Resigned, 3; dischafged,
died l !; total, 8. Number Of mena ppsinto
5. Number Of days lost by sickness, 1885
THROUGH, 153; suspensions, go; total, 1,44s.
Number of arrests made, o, j 21--white. 9, ,f35
colored, 3.9ss--for felony, 33s; for fi,is.
demeanor, 5,7s3.
NumOeroI ordinance violations reported,
1862; number of alarms of fire, 65; nunbr.
Of horses, mules. and carts found at large
md restored to owners, ITO: number OF lost
children found and restored 10 parents, 110;;
humber of doors found open and secured,
t39; amount of stolen property secured,
a4,507; money taken from and returned
TO prisoners. S4,952; total number Of
squares guarded by the police, AT; average
number Of squares to night beat, l7;; aver.
age number Of squares to day beat, 81 the
police have also to light and put out oyer
1000 street lamps each night besides having
to furnish details to preserve order at
churches, marriages, funerals, balls, concerts,
theatre, fires, Iarades, aud elections, mud
they have succeeded In giving satisfaction to
i'l parties asking their presence and assist
ance.
The Chief concludes bis report By asking,
as be deems 1t his duty to do, an increase OF
the police torce. Ig
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 49,.
The Chief Of the Fire Department reports
that during the year the department was
called out forty-eight times-onee to inspec-
ton, twice to false alarms, three times TO
fires out of the city, FIVE times to explosions
of Kerosene lamps, twenty-seyen times to
burning chimDeys and small fires, and ten
times to fires Of more importance. The loss
by fire above mentioned amounts to SS0, $3.50.
upon which insurance TO the amount or
s59,IGS was paid.
"The want of an alarm bell that can be
heard all over the city ut any time the
building of house and the establishment Of
hose company in the centre Of the city "a
body Of men devoted to the work Of aiding
and rescung persons and property in peri.
are mentioned by the Engineer rs some OF
the requirements of the department..
"FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
accompanying the report of the Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department Is also the
report of the Superintendent of the Fire
Alarm and Police Telegraph, which states
that the fire alarm telegraph has continued to
work with abundant success and satisfaction
to the Fire and Police Departments. The
superintendent rencws his suggestion, made
in his last annual report, for division Of the
present tire-alarm circuit and the introduce
ton Of the Automatic Repeater and Elec-
tro- Mechanical Bestriker,' for the reasons
fully set forth in his last annual report. He
also recommends az additional number OF
alarm-boXcS upon the streets. Number of
street aIarm-boXes in the city, 10; number Of
| additional boxes needed ut orce, 80. Cost
of maintenance for both fire-aarm and police
| telegraph since last annual report, $25G.75.
| Unpaid for battery supplies, S3S.40.
LIGHT.
The reportof the Committe on Light shows
| that the Gas Works used 290, ,5S9 bushels Of
coal during the past fiscal year, to 277,213
bushels for the year previous, and like
increase in coke and lime. Amount of gus
burned, 74,5t7 500 cubic feet, being an In
crease of 7, 100000 cubic feet over the pre-
vious year. Increased consumption by pri.
vate parties over the proceeding year wps
6,4G6,12i; but by strect.lamps, public build
ings, &c, 2,424,690 feet. The receipts for
gas we're SlGl,S33.S7, an increase over the
previous year of S9,S66.S3. Receipts exceed
expenditures for the year by sl5,s31.3j, to
which add gas consumed by street lamps,
&C., S45,7SS.60, and $2,284.75 paid by the
city as revenue tax on private consumption,
&C., and the total in favor Of the works for
the year is SG3,SsS.70
| BOARD OF HEALTH.
The President of the Board Of Health re-
ports the number of births during the year
to be 1,77G, of which 27 were twins. In.
crease from previous year, 100. Number Of
white births, 9S2; colored, 704. Largest
number of births was In December, 208;
smallest number, 10, in May, Slill.born,
17G; 90 white and 1T coiorcd.
| "Your friend and fcllow.citizen,
| "a. u. KELLEY,
| Mayor"