National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-07
TIE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Vital statiStics-0psrations Of the Health
Office.

Vital statiSties-0perations Of the Health
Office.
The Board Of Health held . regular meeting
last evening at their rooms DR.. U. @. Cox, presi-
dent, in the chair.
Prof. Langston, from the finance committee, re-
ported bills amounting to S1Os.l; which were ap-
proved and ordered to be paid.
sENI-ANEUAL REPORT.
The registrar submitted q report Of the work
performed in his office for the past six months,
terminating with March l, 1875, OF which the iol-
lowing is q synopsis: Total number Of deaths,
2O43; male white, S3S; female, 265; male, coored,
male, 70; male, coiored, SOL; female, sos. Under
one year. SOL; two years, l4S; three, "a; four q;
i've, Se ten IS; twenty IO1 thirty, 1879; forty, 2o4
ninety, Al; one hundred, "A; above one hundred,
Q; age unknown, !. Ofthis number ], go were ma
tiyes Of this District 747 Of the United States 4
of Ireland, p Of England, 81 Of Germany, Of
France 2 Of Italy Of Scotland, Of SWitEer-
land, 2 of Wales, / Of Denmark, Of Bavaria, Of
Canada. The number certified to by the coroner
was "a, health oficer l6g; there were 176 still
births. OF the above number IS died at the Wash
ington asylum, IS at Providence hospital, so at
asylum, II at st. AIMS orphan asylum, at Sol
diers' Home, 2 at Children's hospital at Wash
Igfopp STssnH at GSs So!aita
2 at st. Johns hospital, at Oolored Orphans
Home, at Home for the Aged, a. smallpox
hospital, at the jail, at Omitted States naval
hospital. Total 1877 deaths IN public institutions.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The principal causes Of death were Measles,
As; scarlatna, TO- smallpox, 2; varicells, l; dph
iberia, u; Group, %; WhOoping cough, IS; eryspe
mittent fever, 4 remittent fever, 8; typhO ma
larial fever, g. bilious fever, q catarrhal fever
hectic fever, !; pyalmia, 2; diarrhea, IS; dysen-
terry, IS; cholera infsntum, Z; cerebro spinal me-
ningitis, IL; hydrophoba, l; syphilis, s. inaniton,
40; intemperance, s. aphthal, s; cancer Of breast,
Z; Of stomach, 9; Of uterus, 5; rheumatism, s;
maTagmus. Is. ScrOfula. 2. DRtliBiS DulmOQaliS,
1856; meningitis, 10; apoplexy, IS; softening OF
BRAIN 9; insanity, s. epilepsy, IL; commissions, 9S;
Congestion of BRAIN 81; disease of BRAIN s. disease
of heart, %; dropsy, II; bronchitis, 10; pneumo-
mia, 500; pleurisy, s; congestion OF lungs, Jaun-
mature birth, 80; old age, 90; violence, 80.
For the same period there were SS6 marriages.
22l white and los cOlOred; births, 1,962-White,
male 445, female 4SS; cOlored-male 246, female
The mortality of the District OF Columbia for
the six months ending March 81, 1915 was 2,043,
at the rate Of 27.24 per 1000 per annum; l4.25
per cent. of the deaths were from ZymOtic dis
eases, PISS from constitutional, 1850 from local,
1907 from develOpm entail, and 3S7 from violence.
Rate Of mortality of the white population was
10 per 1000 per annum, while the mortality OF
the cOlOred population was IS. 95 per LOCO for the
same period. Number of births reported during
the six months was 1852; white, 1892; colored,
go. Rate Of increase Of the white population by
crease Of the colOred population by deaths over
births was 1916 per ], 900 per annum.
NUIsANCEs TO BE ABATED.
The lot on Fourth street, extended near Pome-
roy street, in the county, the property Of Robert
Selkirk, being below grade, &C., and the four
frame shanties situated in Balls alley, between
Second and Third streets and q street and Massa-
chusetts avenue, the property of Joseph Hiles, be-
ing unfit for human habitation, were declared
nuisances and the health officer ordered to abate
them.
A communication was submitted from the
health officer, accompanied by the instructions
issued to Richard Brown, superintendent of Hol;
mead's cemetery, TO be observed in the burial
and dsinterment of bodies in those grounds.
The payroll Of garbage-masters for the month
Of March, amounting to Sl,23l.2O, was approved
and forwarded to the Commissioners.
F. W. Co.'s & Co. were appointed apothecaries
to the poor for the Second district.
WORK OF THE HEALTH OFFICER.
The following is a synopsis OF the operations Of
NEisances reported, $50: referred s.; abated, AS;
referred to Commissioners Il: notices issued, 40;
complaints OF citizens, q; causes OF death tnVes
tigated, 10; pecuniary conditions Investigated 10;
burials at public expense 10; patients treated by
physicians 10 the poor, 232; cost Of medicines fur
nished, 61.2O; dead animals removed, 90; case Of
smallpox removed 10 hospital, ]; privies cleaned,
553. Inspections-A6l5 punches tish; q, $50 sh3d,
q 900 herring. 1000 crabs, 1000 clans, 900 bush
els oysters. COndemnstions-115 punches fish, 400
crabs, 655 pounds beef, p pounds veal, II pounds
rabbits, IS ducks geese, Il bushels kale, BUSH
els of potatoes, 4 6ushel Of turnips, 81 heads Of
cabbage, bushel apples, dozen oranges. AMI
mails impounded, 6; redeemed, 4; killed, 2. Amount
realized, Sc.
The board then adjourned.