National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-05-06
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Births, Marriages and Deaths within v

Births, Marriages and Deaths Within Week.
A regular meeting of the Board Of Health was
held at their rooms last evening, DR.. Q. Q. Cox,
| president, in the chair. -a
| DR.. Cox, from the sanitary police committee,
recommended the appointment of VIM. ]. Sher.
wood as clerk to the poundmaster. Agreed to.
Mr.. Marbury, from the finance committee, re-
ported bills amounting to $l225, which were
passed and ordered TO be paid.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The registrar submitted q statement of NOR
tality in the District for the week ending April
@Se eo E5 ~ na1s
White, Z; female, 3; male colored, Is; female, IL
Under one month old, II; one year, !; iye years
e h66y - 15syv z EsaT
this District 40 Of the United States 2s Ireland,
9; England, l; Germany, 8; Scotland, !, and Po-
bro spinal fever /; whooplng cough, 2; niaraslnus
3; phthisis pulmonalis IS; meningitis 3; apoplexy
eentium, & heart disease, l. bronchitis, l. conges
tion Of lungs, pneumonia, 10; Bright's disease, q
violence, 2 The mortality for the week was y
per annum. Increase Of the population by births
over deaths (reported) was is, or at the rate of
$50 per l.oOC per annum; o.25 per cent. of the
constitutional, 5250 from local. $50 from develop
mental, and 80 from violence. The rate Of NOR
talty OF the white population was 1880 per 1000
per annum, while the mortality of the colored
population was 1853 per 900 for the same period.
Rate Of increase Of the white population by births
the colOred population by births over deaths was
l0.4 per 900 per annum. Deaths corresponding
week Is55 white SS; eoiored SS total e; Or at the
J. 1874, to April 60 1875, 1882; October l. 1875 to
April 90, 1s7e, 2162-showing a decrease ofdeaths
the same period there were marriages reported
3 white and 2colored. Births, IS; white male,
Is; female, Is: eolored male. IS: female q.
officer, stating that the barrels now used by the
contractors for the collection and removal of gar
bage and refuse animal and vegetable matter are
not alright nor sealed when filled, and asked
the board to instruct him If any particular form of
barrel and head for sealing will be adopted, or If
the contractors are expected to use such barrels
vided said barrels be alright and sealed when
flled. As the warm season is near, 1t is neces
sary that they be required to place the barrels in
the condition specified in the contract. Referred
to the committee on ordinances.
The health officer was directed to give public
would be required to be muZzled under the Ordi-
nances of the board.
George 5. Bigelow and others asked that hunt
ing dogs, when accompanied by their owners, be
permitted TO 20 unmuZZled through the streets.
The cOroner's report for the month of April,
showing that inquests had been held in 10 cases,
all of which have previously been published In
the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
The District Commissioners referred Senate
bill No. III, to Incorporate the National Sanitary
Abattor Company of the District of Columbia,
to the board for such suggestions as might be pro-
posed.
The subject was referred to a special committee
consisting Of DR.. Verdi and Mr.. Marbury for con-
sideratton and report at which time the butchers
opposed to the bill will be given hearing.
Professor Langston, from the committee on ordi-
nance the proposition to charge for transcripts
Of the records Of the registers Office, reported
that, having carefully considered the proposition
submitted by the register Of vital statistics they
hnd 1t is the practice of Health boards in the
different cities to make charge for searching rec
Ords and certified transcripts from the same,
and, as the work involves time and expense,
we recommend the adoption of the following:
Ord. red, That for each search of and certified
transcript from the records Of marriages, births
deaths Kept in the office of registrar of vital sta
tistcs of the District of Columbia there shall be
of the board and passed to the credit Of the contn
gent fund, to be expended for sanitary purposes,
as the board may direct the order to take effect
and be in force from the 18th instant. The report
was adopted.
The committee on ordinances, to whom the
communication Of H. F, Turner & Co; was re-
Ierred, report: That on the I'D day of March, a.
d. 1875, the Board of Health made O. contract
with WessTs, H 7. Turner & Co., in which the
said HCF. Turner & CO. agree, among other
meats and ofials, as required by this board, and
promptly to remove the same, in what is known as
the Concord" wagon, 10 certain building or de-
and faithfully remove and transport daily, by
rail, from said building or depot all Of said dead
animals, &c, to place or depot beyond the lim-
its of the District of Columbia.
The committee further ind that in this contract
the Board Of Health obligates itself, among other
things, TO permit and authorize said H. F. Turner
& Co. TO collect and remove to said building
depot all Of said dead animals, &c, during the
term of two years. and to pay to said parties for
the service named in the contract referred to the
sum Of 81, 500 per annum, in equal monthly pay
ments. for and during the whole term OF two
years, payments to commence with the beginning
Of the work.
The committee further find that the Board Of
Health has in no respect altered the terms Of this
contract, but that the same is in all respects, as
mo- do Strhef cffr Il Of f11 oDda off
The committee arc Of opinion that the board
cannot legally comply with what they understand
to be the request Of H. +. Turner Co, and
therefore recommend that the board decline TO
grant the request, and that Messrs. II. +. Turner
& Co. be SO notified.
The report was adopted.
The board then adjourn ed.