Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-18
The Board OF Health.

EXTRACTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT
held yesterday to consider the annual report.
THE HEALTH OFFICERS REHoRr
says that q correct record of every nuisance re-
ported and sbsted has been made, all of which
were personally inspected, numbering 2T,II6,
also OF every article of condemned food. The
statements show: Animals impounded 2,T05,
loads of garbage removed 1900, dead animals
Te moved 1 410, priyy boxes cleaned ~ ,7ST, bur-
ials at public expense from September Is to No
Vemb Der IS, 1874, IS. The number of inspectors
employed -, official notices to make house
sewer connections were Is I'D against LIB
premises. Number of sewer connections made
by the Board of Health -, notices to fill lots
having stagnant water thereon "a, houses con-
demDed as unfit for hsbitation $50. cases re-
terred TO the attorney lis. The inspl ct on OF
food shows that immense labor in this depart.
ment has been performed, aggregating Il .02I -
oi5 pounds Of meat, 6SS, j45 pounds of poul nv
l.160,l03 bushels fruits, 10 10000 melons,
20, III ,440 lOaves of bread. The COMBINATIONS
loot up 23.2'5 pounds of meat. $50 poultry, ass
dozen eggs, &c. The value OF food con iemned
amounts to ss,6'7.Is, being $l,l1.55 in excess OF
the previous year.
The following is the inspection of Z. arine pro-
ducts -Shad, 62s 657; herring ,567 ,240; tsylOrs
s9S46; punches of fish, 567 POI; sturgeon, 919;
bushels OF oysters, 5C9,372; clans, 1853 600;
crabs, 29I, go. COndemnAti0ns-1i9 shad, 40
heTTlDgs, i5S taylOTs, 16 sturgeon, Gas bushels
oysters, 81 go clans, % SO crabs. Total num-
Der OF pounds of fish inspected, 10 ST, 1867.
Value OF marine products condemned,
FISHING SHORES OF THE POTOMAC.
Exclusive Of the fish sent to the Alexandria
Washington and Georgetown markets, the
fishermen on the shores of the Potomac have
sold TO COuntrymen and shipped to other ports
large numbers OF shad and herring, as follows .
virginia shOre-CaywoOd's. 80 900 herring;
WIND Mill Point, 225 600 herring; lump, 95 900
herring; Gums. $4,000 herring; Arkenda!e
l23,O herring; Clifton, 100000 herring; Free
stone Point, IS, coo herring, 10 900 shad; Stoney
Polht 50 600 herring; High Point, $4,000 her
ring, White House, Is goo herring; Ferry Land
ing, 5000 herring; jackson City, $4,000 her
ring.
THE Iast-nnmcd fishery is where Seth Green
SUGGEST So ally Experimental in the Propagation
Maryland shore-Maryland Point fishery,
10 600 herring; Budd's Point, 10000 herring;
1850 herring; Pamunkey. i5l, 600 herring; Gut
Landing, 80 COO herring; Greenway, 25 600 her
ring; BIyents Point, rs 900 herring; Moxlsy's,
l25,nO9 herring; Kent, 10000 herring; Stick
Landing, rs 900 herring-a total for both shores
of 10, COO shad and 2, POS coo herring.
1heTe nave been received at Alexandria
during the year All. go shsd, 10000 herring,
l45 'l6 taylors, go sturgeon, 40 5000 punches Of
hsh-making grand total Of 1.C5l 5S7 sha1
l5,26SiO herring, 3iO 1891 tayIOrs, 616 l9 bunch
es OF hsh and $50 sturgeon caught at the fish,
OTHER STATISTICS.
Tue report Of the pound service shows: I'm
poundeo-horses, 60; mules, q; cows, 100; hogs,
81; goats, 129; geese, CT; dogs, 2 200; sheen, /
total, 2 7o5. Redeemed, 40; sold, 81; killed,
1,se7; died, Z; returned without fee, 10.
The medical sanitary inspector reports the
operations of his department, which is princi-
pai-y investigating the causes of death, makes
report covering 81 days, the time the bureau
has been IN operation, az follows: Males, 81;
females, 81; white, Il; cOlOTed, IS; adults 1:
children, =; infants, ~ total, Ill. Iuegitimats
brihs-White, /; cclored, 81. Bdrials at public
expense, IS.
GOOD HEALTH or THR DISTRICT.
In concluding, the health officer states that
during the past year not a single case of small
pCX or other epidemic disease has been repyrt-
ed, and that The District throughout its several
divisions has been to such degree heaIthful "a
to he the common subject OF remark and salts
iac-lon among its citizens. In the exercise Of
his duties be has frequently asked the assist
ance OF the Superintendent of police, who has
always responded with characteristics courtesy,
and be particularly desires to express his an
probation or the aid aud support received from
Lieut.. Kelly, Of the III precinct.
in 10 department of the District government
are the clerks required to perform as constan.
anu laboTious duties ss in the various bureaus
OF the Board OF Health, and the grade of their
compensation l. less than in any other Those
OF the health officer have been faithful ana EN-
Gent, and IN justice should receive wages more
commensurate with the service they render.
The sanitary and ordinance Committees sub.
mitted their reports.
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