The New York herald., 1876-07-21

they cannot win with him. AS it is his un-
certain, menacing, dissatisfied, of6cious at
titude hurts the Tilden canvass. If he
really means to run for Vice President let
him take his place behind his leader, listen
to the music and keep time until November.
The Westhcr-The Board OF Health.
The sanitary condition of the city is at
tracing universal attention. The general
aspect of the upper portion of the island is
expressed in the Commercial Advertiser of last
evening, which says:-''A sail up the East
or North River is made sickening at GER
tain points by the vile stenches that come
from rendering establishments and oil re-
fneries. Thus an excursion short enough
not to weary an invalid dare not be under
taken. Passengers who pass Thirty-ninth
street on the North River complain of the
horrible odors waited toward them, while
the oil refneries at Hunters Point make the
passengers on the East River miserable.
Citizens have complained until they are
tired. In no other city in the world would
such things be permitted for day." This
is only sample of the complaints that
come to us from all quarters. 1t is out of
respect for the feelings of our readers that
we decline to print them. 1t is not pleasant,
with the thermometer at &c. to have the
morning paper decorated with narratives OF
nuisances, of stenches and malaria. Yet the
subject, disagreeable as it is, is one of the
most important character 1t shows that we
are living in the worst governed city in the
world.
There is no better test of this than the
death rate. Paris is twice as large as New
York. 1t is in humid climate, on plain,
in the low edge of the European Continent.
In Paris the death rate is 22.4. London is
nearly four times as large as New York. 1t
is city densely populated with every form
Of misery and want, and its death rate is
176 In New York the death rate for the
week ending July was 4765. In other
words, nearly three times as many people
die in New York as in London. Nor can
this be attributed to the general unhealth-
mess of the country. If we 60 East-to Bos-
ton-we find the rate 4.63, showing that
New England is as healthy as France. If
we 60 West we find the rate in st. Louis
2692, which shows that the generally
malarious valley of the Mississippi is much
healthier than New York. If we 60 South
we find that Charleston, in low country
also, and near the rice and cotton lands,
which are famous for malaria, has only q rate
Of 55 If we cross the riverto Brooklyn we
note that the rate is eight per cent less than
in New York, while over in torrid Philadel-
phia, which everybody abuses, it is seven
per cent less. The practical fact is that in
time Of general health, with no pestilence
and the country free from any special forms
of disease, New York is the most unhealthy
city in the world. More than all, and this
is the alarming fact that comes home to
every household, this mortality is largely
among the children. In twenty-five days,
in New York city, over two thousand chill
dren under five years have been buried, and
the report says:-"The direct cause of their
death was cholera infantum, caused by the
extreme heat and want of proper diet and
fresh air."
Here, then, is the sad, CHASTITY, heart-rend-
ing fact that two thousand children have died
within the last twenty-five days Most of
these lives under q good government, might
have been saved to their parents. Let us
suppose that the authorities were to suppress
the nuisances like those of which the Com
mercial Advertiser complains. These soap
factories and refneries could be made to do
their business without inconvenience to the
public. Here would be great improvement.
But the owners have political influ-
ence," and the people are denied their
rights. Let us suppose we had rapid
transit. Then, instead of packing
our honest, virtuous, deserving poor
into unhealthy tenement houses, they
might live in Westchester, each laborer in
his own humble, tasteful, pretty home, with
air, space, sunshine. But the owners of
railways and proprietors of tenement houses
have influence" and so rapid transit is
postponed from year to year, and whenever
we have warm spell the children must die
by thousands in order that the owners of
Sixth Avenue and. Third Avenue Railway
stocks may have large dividends. Our
whole government is rotten to the core, and
we see the result now in the death of hun
dreds of children whose lives might be
spared.
There is not n little one whose soul passes
away in these dirty, dingy tenement houses
who is not a martyr. Our immediate duty is
to relieve as much as possible the sufferings of
the poor, and if possible to arrest this pesti-
lence. We can all do something, and let us
do it. The poorer sections of this great city
are filled with Rachels who mourn for their
children and will not be comforted.
strengthening Plasters i'm Politics.
The democrats propose to nominate Horatio
Seymour for Governor. Some republicans