Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-13
Eoard CT Heath.

VITAL sTATisTIcs-DEA.H COLOR DIS
cR1EiNtTroN-NIGBT soft AND GAR
BAGE CONTRACT Az ARDED.
At the meeting Of me Board of Health last
evening. the
REPORT or rHE ,iFGIsTRAR OF VITAL SRA
TisTICS
mittec. showing los deaths 10 adaIts. q
IDEOrs; = white, % cOlored: 81 males, s.
fem ales OF the 20 children under one year of
age ina. died, ~ were colored. OF the causes
= wHCOpiDg cough. each Group, measles and
aS.heDfa, commissions; IL came under the
respiratory. One was from a well caving in,
al q one POISON ed by morphine. The tn san
ifary division bounded by 14th, south and
25th street west, - reported o cases. Thirteen
marriages reported and 50 births-46 white
and d cslore,i. Under the heat of remarks
the registrar says that the mortality OF the
District of Columbia for the week was 10
more than last week, or at the rate of 1914
pei hoo per anBum. Rate OF mortality of
the white population was 25.05 per 1000 per
aDnUm. while the mortality Of the colored
population was $3.50 per 1000 for the same
period. Rate Of decrease Of the white pOpu-
lation by deaths over births, 3-3t per i.0O0
while TIE decrease OF the colOred population
by deaths over births was 90 per 600 per
anUum.
DIR. Bliss in presenting the report called
attention Ia the large
INCREASE OF MORTALITY AMONG THE coll
oRED PEOPLE
mostly among the children). and the neces-
sity OF doing something TO check 10. 1t was
owing partially at least to the poverty of
many Of them, and to some extent to their
want Of experience. He did not know that
the board could do anything in this matter,
but they should attempt 1t. By comforting
with the colored ministers AMI teachers
something might be done. He moved that a
committee, of which Mr.. Langston shall be
chairman be appointed To consider the mat
ter; agreed to, and Messrs. Langston, Bliss,
and Verdi were appointed.
A frame shanty on Q street, between 18Th
ard 18th. was declared To be a nuisance in
furious to health, and it was ORDERED TO be
abated.
Mr. Lapgston stated that he had a report
from a special committee
ON THE CARRIAGE AND NIGHT SOIL Con-
TRACT,
appointed in executive session, and asked If
IL was Low in order.
Or. Verdi moved that the report be made
in open meeting.
DIR. Bliss said that all business referred at
private meetings was reported in private
meetings, and moved that the board a1 journ
and that they go into executive session.
DR.. Verdi said
THERE SHOULD BE NOTHING DISGUISED,
ard urged that the committee report in open
Mr.. Marbury favored reports being made
In open meeting generally, but as in connec-
ton with the report the characters of parties
would be discussed he thought the doors
should be closed.
The motion of Or. Bliss was agreed to
yeas, Mr.. LangStOn, DIR. Bliss, and Mr.. Mar
-
executive session.
CONTRACT AWARDED IN EXECUTIVE sEs-
SION.
The committee-Drs. Bliss and Verdi and
Professor Largston-tO whom were referred
the bids for removing night soil, garbage and
nfPhi-sOil, garbage and deal animals, sub
mitted majority and minority reports. The
former DIR. Bliss and Professor Laugston)
reported in favor of awarding the contract
for two years TO III. +. Turner & Co, of Bal
timore. they being the lowest bidders for that
time. This report was adopted, with an
amendment that the contractors build at
their own expense depot for their use. DIR.
Verdi voted in the negative.
WHY DIR. VERDI VOTED no.
Er. Verdi gives the following reasons for
his vote in the minority report:
81. That w. II. Wattrous bids to remove
the night soil, garbage and dead animals at
comper satioD Of 1865 per year; III. Holmes
S6,CG0 per year; j. v. w. Nitndenberg, So, 500:
Per year for one, two or three years. .. That
each bidder being under bonds to perform the
work TO the satisfaction of the Board of
Health, namely, without creating nuisance,
is entitled TO equal consideration. 3. That
all thiT gs being equal, consider il the duty
of the Board of Health TO award the contract
TO citizens of the District OF Columbia, when
ever consistent with public interest, mas
much as they are taxpayers from whom a
part of this appropriation is to come.
In view OF the above did not concur will
the report of the majority of the committee,
namely Mr.. Langston and DR.. Bliss, in
awarding the contract above mentioned to
III. +. Turner & Co, OF Baltimore, for two
years, at s. 800 per anDum, they being the
highest of the lowest four bidders. also
could not conc ur with the resolution passed.
by the majority Of said committee, providing
that the Cor tract be awarded for two years,
for IL reas on that the effect OF said resOlu-
ton is to expunge the three lowest bidders
i also could Tot concur IN The awarding the
cr.ntract to III. +. Turner Z Co. at the rate of
81 800 per annum, making an aggregate of
$4,000 for the two years, while Mr.. Wattrous'
bid is 81 CO per annum, making an aggregate
OF s14 ,0s5 for three years. / also could not
concur in awarding the contract to III. + Tur-
rer & Co. for two years, while their bid is for
the same amount for one, two or three years.
The Board OF Health having agreed to no par
ticular mode OF transportation, namely, by
water or rail one mode is as good as another,
and therefore no preference should be given
in awarding the contract to either. Lastly,
that three-year contract Is more favorable
TO the interes Is of the people OF the District
OF Columbia so long as il compares so favor
ably in PROF OSed expenses with the bids of
OF or two ears as demonstrated above. In
view Of the foregoing recommend that the
Poard OF Health award the contract To w. p.
Wattrous, ano, in his falling, to W. Holmes,
and, in the failing OF the latter, to j. V. w.
NaEdeLberg. etc. keeping always in view the
lowest