National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-01
BOARD or HEALTH


While making up the record Of the old year
we turn with satisfaction to the exhibit Of our
District board, evincing their zeal and efficiency
as guardians Of the public health. We may
safely sssert that no other city In this country
can boast Of health department as systematic
disciplined as that whose labors have so materi-
ally contributed to the good health Of our people
during the year Just passed. Activity, agEres-
OF their work. Whatever, anywhere within our
limits, has existed which might poison the atmos-
phere and be injurious to health has not failed to
meet the attention and vigorous aDtagonism OF
this board. Ard although we may, many Of US
have been called personally to account for cor
ditions declared to be injurious, and have thereby
been subjected TO the expense Of abatement, and
been sometimes on the point Of condemninE the
and unsolicited soifeitude for the cisspiipess
Of our bsck-yards, believing that q mans
house is his castle. and, that he, therefore,
him, yet We have learned, what the world gen.
orally learns tardily, that public health results
mainly from Individual cleanliness and purity;
that the aggregated filth OF careless and de.
graded people Is the source and hlth Of epIdemIcs
and that no gate should be barred against the
expert health ON ser, VINO seeks and destroys the
the human system, and who, with experienced
eye, discovers baneful conditions where we might
sleep In tancied security. When personal incOn-
venience or prejudice dictates opposition to the
enforcement Of sanitary regulations, sober, sec
ond thought will prevail as the world becomes
be meddlesOme theoriEing will then be counted
and welcomed as practical necessity to every
community.
As organized. the operations If the board are
under the supervision Of the secretary, the regis
trar and the health officer, aud the following IS
synopsis Of their work for the year:
REGISTERS OFFICE.
Marriages-W bite, ms; eolOred, ls4-total, S47.
Birtbs-White male, 752; white female rs;
eolored male, 434; eolored female, ss3-total,
Deaths NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: White male, sss;
white female, 443; colored male, 20; colOred fe-
male, 24S-total 1,s74. Minors: White male, Al;
white female, sss; eolored male, 500; eolored fe-
male, S7l-total, ,6o4; grand total, 2,e6s. Age
Under year, $50; to years, 252; to 8, 81; to
l. IS; to s, a; to 10, 81; 10 to o. lTO 20 to 30
TO- 70 to So s2 50 to co. s 20 to 100 O. above loS
o; unknown, 1e-total, 2068. NAtivities-United
States, aga; Ireland ls6; England, 30; Germany,
den, i; Canada, 4; Mexico, /; South America, /;
Tuscany, Il Porto Rico, l-tOtsl, 290s.
HEALTH oPPICE
UnWhoIesome food condemned-Pounds of beef
p,42l; veal, 2s7s; mutton, 22o2; bacon, ham and
pork, T,3s2 vcnison and buffalo, $50; sausage l23;
173 birds, rabbits and squirrels; 127O poultry Ssl
beans and peas; SIS punches beets and radishes:
10,S15 heads cabbage and cGulihoWer; I2lA BUSH
els tomatoes; IS pumpkins and squAshes; al egg
7,t25 cantaloupes; 1914 bushels cherries; 2S7s
boxes berries; 1914 bushels peaches; - bushels
other fruite; ~ POUNDS Dutter. No. Of of1ctal
communications sent, SS2; No. received, $50; No.
Of orders issued for eons for burial Of poor per-
sons 81; No. Of orders issued for burial sites for
poor persons, 81; No. Of burial permits Issued,
Less; No. Of disinterment permits Issued, rs; No.
Of weekly reports sent tOphyslcians and health
boards 1850; No. Of transcripts Of record Of deaths
issued, Il; do. marriages issued, s; do. births
issued, 4; No. OF praeticnR physicians registered
800; No. of undertakers registered, Al; No. Of
midwives registered, 9s. =
observation-disclosures products-Shad, 62863T;
herring, 6567 40; hickory jacks or tayers, So sI;
punches OF nsh, 500 col; sturgeon, Sl9 bushels Of
oysters, Asa, l73 clans, ,l63 900; crabs, 1912
Condemn stionE-Shad, 149; herring, 40; hiek-
DRY jacks, 1885, punches Of nah, S4s5; sturgeon, 10;
bushels Of oysters, e,oee; clans, $1,000 erals,
%, SEQ.
Number Of nuisaDces reported and abated,
%, $40; official notices to make hOuse-seWer con-
neetions were issued by the health oficer against
LAB premises; miscellaneous ofneial notices is
sued. 922; number Of houses condemned as unit
for human habitation, 40; number OF seWereon-
nections made by the Board Of Health under sec
tiOn 2 legislative act approved August q, ISL T2
number Of loads OF garbage removed, ,23l: num-
Der OF dead animals removed, 4,06S; number Of
privy- boxes cleaned, Al $40; kilograms received
and Gent, 1,G97; complaints Of citizens received,
I6ps; number Of official letters written, 1,e32;
number Of animals impounded. 2 695
Since the organization Of the bureau Of vital
statistics the following work has been performed
under the supervision OF the health officer: Num-
Der Of cases ATTENDED by the physicians TO the
poor, ,S34; cost of medicines, $35221; number Of
desths, cause Investigated, lTS; burals At public
expense, 81.