National Republican., 1876-01-22
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Vital statistics-FIour, Bread and Pickles TO
be Analyzsd.

be AnalyZsd.
The Board OF Health held their regular semi
weekly meeting at their rOom3 last evening: Dr.
g. G. Cox president, in the chair
Or. Cox, from the sanitary committee TO whom
was referred the complaint OF the health Officer.
representing tnat the contractors for the removal
of Ofial had been guilty Of violation Of contract,
tnRsmuch as portions OF garbage, instead OF being
transferred from the limits Of the Distrfc: by rail-
1s required, was sold to certain private parties
and conveyed by wagons into the country for pri.
yate use, reported that the disposition thus
charged and proved was manliestly in cOntrOYen-
tiOn OF the express terms Of agreement made and
entered into with the Board Of Health ana Js
serves the emphatic disapproyal Of the sa ne
Since, however. 1t is evident by the explanation
presented by Messrs. IL. l.. Turner < C5 thar no
wrong was intended and no mischief actually oc
CURED. the committee recommend that in rh.
present iDstaucr the proceeding referred TO be ey
cused, with the distinct condition however IN
tAe bosTd NlII he 'eaiter insist upon q rig Id ad
neIence % me terms OF the contract and deVia
tlon irem the same not previously sanctioned nv
the board shall be deemed forfeiture Of All eT
stlng R2TeeTnents between the board and tbe a.,
tractors. The REPORT was adopted
Mr.. Msrbury, iron the hnanee camnittee ,s
proved. -P
The registrar Of vital statistics submi,tea a
statement OF mortality in the District for ths
week ending January u, which shows: Total
nTed, 5; female, 9: minoIs-male, white ): female
}; male, eolored, !; female, s. Under one month
four years, J; ten years, !; twenty years.; thirty
Jears, 5; iorty years, i nifty years ); sixty years
=; seventy years, ); eighty years =; ninety Years
4; one hundred years. /: above one hundred wears
l. OF these q we're natives Of the Dstric; Of oIun
bia, 23 Of the United States, . OF Ireland of
Germany and OF Italy. The principal causes al
death were: Group, L; tiarrhoT, !: erysloeIas i:
scarlet fever, l; cancer Of uterus ]: nirasmus /:
gangrsne, l; phthiss pulnonalis, Il; apoplexy ?;
conTulsi0ns, !; epilepsy, 4: meningitis ?; heart
disease, !: pneumonia, S; gastrits. l: Bright dis
ease, l; debility, 4. The mortality for the week
was 10 less than last week. at the rate Of IS IS
per 1000 per Rnnum. Increase of tue population
by births over deaths was a. or at the rate Of Il
per lyVO per annum; 1873 per cent. OF the deaths
were from Zymotic diseases, 352l from constitu.
nonal, 3IG from local and L. o. from deyeIop-
mental. The rate OF mortality of the white pop-
ulatlon was u A per 900 per annum while the
mortality OF the colored population was so on Der
1ooO for the same period. The rate Of Increase Of
the white population by births over deaths as
S.5el per l,O00, while the increase OF the noIored
population BY births over deaths was % ssg ner
l,0O0 per annum. Deaths correspondin1 ITesE
1875, white 81; colored. 4i-totai 9S. For the
same period there were 10 marriages vbite and
5 colored: and 102 births, p white uales ami "a
white females, rs colored males and % coloreJ fe
males.
The health officer requested authority to sub.