National Republican., 1876-04-08
BOARD ef KKALfE.
No Epidemic Prevailing in this city-Visal

No Epidemic PrsvaiiIrg in this city-Vital
Statistics
special meeting Of the Board Of Health vss
held a. their rooms yesterday, at 2 o'clock; the
president (Dr. c. O. Oox) in the chair.
A communication was received from II. T. Tar
ner Co., stating that many Of the nightseil
barrels delivered to themby the Uderless Exca-
waiting Company are not more than one third OF
one half full, which increases the cost of their
transportation to the injury of the complsiuants'
Referred to the ordinance committee.
Another Communication from the same parties
states that they are not Justly chargeaoie with
any portion Of the expense arising from the IN
ment Of the ofal depot on II street northeast.
REPORT ON EPIpENIcs.
DR.. Verdi, from the committee on epIdemics,
reported the following:
the committee on epidemics has instituted dill
demio form, of"tyPhus, ""typh9s- material fever"
by certain New York papers, TO infest, Just now,
the Capital Of the nation.
!tis certainly most surprising that journals,
noted for Intelligence, should be 30 readily de-
eslTed oy irresponsible scriboIe.s In regard to
what is SO universally known and conceded, viz:
the superior sanitary condition Of this Distri:..
tursd. and public opinion may become prslu-
dieially aTected by their currency, the com mvtee
Hsrs deemed it proper e seek IRON every eSey
sior, Information as to: the foundation (if such
exlst) for these extraordinary publications.
Tsey are saPPy 70 iS.% .ee indeed tbs eO
tire District, has for number OF years enjoyed
the most extraordinary immunity from ep!demE
disorders of every description; that while sidem.
ics Of most formidable and tstai Character have
prevailed in several Of the eastern and Western
ettiesthe diseases Tat have occurred in this CON-
TarioSs Changes Of temperature and Certain hy
grometric states by the air occurring during
winter characterized by unusually mild weather
spring; that pneumonia alone has increased IT'S
rate OF mortality, the causes Of whicn clt-
matte and not local; that typho malarisl forms:
By our wise newspaper correspondents, have not
prevailed in an epidemic form, and that the
alarm created by these statements is wholly
without foundation.
The registrar of vital certificates, in his report,
Will affirm the assertions of the committee, based
upon actual figures at his command, at once rells-
the last len years has been so entirely free from
epidemics, especially Of scarlet fever and dlph-
tberiB, which prevail elsewhere.
The registrar submitted his statement Of NOR:
tRlity in the District for the week ending Aprll
l, which shows: Total deaths. e9; male, white, "a;
male white c: female, !; male, color ID, Il female
:. Or this number were under one month old;
one year, II; two years, 8; twenty years, IS; s;
above one hundred years, /. or these 81 were
natives of the District 81 of the United States,
Poland. The principal causes of death were
Group, l; whooping cough, l; phthisis pulmo-
nails, 10; scroiula, apoplexy, convulsioss, l;
chitis,, 4; pneumonia, 0; B,ight;s disease,
!; old age, ): violence, 3. The mortality Of
the District for the week was 2j less than last
week. or at the rate of D. ass per Loo per annum;
increase of the population by births over
deaths was 81, or at the rate of 6.lT5 per
1000 per annum: 7.25 per cent. of the
deaths were from zymotic diseases, 2I.54 from
constitutional, i203 from local, 1854 from devel-
opmental, and 43I from violence The rate Of
mortality Of the white population was S.1lS per
1000 per annum, while the mortality of the col
ored population was k6. .222iper LOCO for the same
period. Rate of increase OF white population by
births over deaths was 10 per 1000, while the
decrease of the colored population by deaths over
births was 4.622 per 1000 per annUm. Deaths
corresponding week 1875, white, 4I; colored, As
total 95 or at the rate of SO.S75 per 1000 per
mum: for the ameperiod there were Il marriages,
5 white and colored; and IS births, % white
males and &c white females, Il col0red males and
l9 colOred females. E35z7
The board then adjourned. .-.sxsa - -.