The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-01
BOARD OF HEALTH.
MORTALITY RATES FOR THE PAST WEEK AND
MoNTH-FAvoRABLE CONDITION OF THE

MORTALITY RATES FOR THE PAST WEEK AND
MoNTH-FAvoRABLE CONDITION OF THE
CIrY's HEALTH.
There III deaths reported TO have occurred in
this city during the week ending Saturday, July g.
which Is decrease Of 81 compared with the number
reported the preceding week, and q less than
ported during corresponding week OF the yoar 1876
Tho actual mortality for the week ending July 81 was
1856 which is 1.4I6 below the average for tho corre
spending week Of the past five years.
The deaths children under i've OF age and Of
persons who were suffering from diarrbGal diseases
showed further decline during tho past week, the
mortality former being 81 and the latter 60 less
than the mortality for the previous week, not
wi,hstanding. the mean temperature was % deg,
Fahrenheit higher. Tho deaths in tenement houses
were 20 less but tile institutions showed
OF 49,
II IS noticeable, however that in the wards Of this
city which contain small area and large tenement
house population the death rate is higher TO the num-
ber Of inhabitants than ID the where there
larger and smaller tenement house population,
VIZ, dur,pg tho week ending July "a. in tho Four.
tecnth ward with In OF SO and popua-
ton OF &c AL, there % DEATHS OF which 10
from diarr,o,al Diseases and the Fifteenth ward.
with of 1873 acres ard population Of 70 543,
there were but DEATHS, OF which were from diar-
rhoa Diseases or with excess in population Of but
92S persons there were than twice the number
OF deahs in the Fourteenth than in the Fifteenth.
DEATH RATE STATISTICS.
or the total number Of deaths reported tho week
log we're institutions, 1906 IN tenement houses, 202
IN houses containing three families and less, in
hotels boarding houses, IN rivers boats, streets
&c.
There we're 1921 Deaths 213 still BIRTHS 2I73 births
ona siO aeuh. TO s bph Il
and 1856 births reported during the corresponding
month Of 1876.
The annual death rate per 900 persons living Of The
estimated enumerated population according 70 the
most weekly returns OF Phliadephia 26.95
Brooklyn 81 II; St LOUIS, 1ls2; Chicago, 80 ~; Bal
timorc, 27.4; Cincinnati, 2o84; Cleveland, Is 81 !;
Richmond, :S4 Charleston. 30 55 savannah, SO. So
Lowell. 1913; Worcester, 1888; Cambridge, 1885,
spring lieid, 2o57. Blonthly reports -Elinira 10 AS
Mobile, 81 20 Foreiga citics-Weckly repors-Lon
don, 81 d Liverpool "a; Birmingham, a. !; Manches
ter "a Il glasgow 10; Edinburgh, II; Duudcc. 1902
Dublin, "a . Belfast, 81; Corr, III Brussels, 10; Ant
werp, IA; Gnens 2s Buda-pes.h, s5;; Paris, %;
Berlin, "A 2; Munich 49,; Breslsu 81 4; Vienna, "a 3;
Trieste pa; Copenhagen. 100; Stockholm, 90 Z ;
Chrsliana, az; Amsterdam, 1852: Rot,erdam, -;
The Hague, IL; Calcutta, 176; Bombay 72.2; Madras,
lly; Geneva with snourbs) 1863; Basel, 2S7
Bern, $50. Monthly repor,-Montroa, $40.
THE HARLEM FLATS NUISANCE
In reply TO request made by the Board OF Aldermen
in relation TO the Harlem fats tho Sanitary Commit
lee instructed 10 Investigate and report on tho
neighborhood OF Ninety nth street. The substance OF
is MS follows:-
Formerly that territory from Ninety second street
up for a mile and east oil Fifth avenue had been low
lands under water, but by opening the streets
ways ana dams have been formed, and also small
pools OF st,gnan water collected. This has been
1873 has been constantly under the supervision of
the Board OF HEALTH aud they have improved H. They
had times been obstructed by litigatiOns while the
Department OF Public Works was by tho existing laws
not able TO do tho work Indicated To them w tho
Board of Health. The bad smell has IN part and IN
fact been caused by the dumping OF the rcfuss OF the
purifying material OF the Mutual Gas Works, which
consists OF oxide OF iron and suphate OF lime This
dumping has been stopped by the Board OF Health, and
also lertillzng factory in that vicinity suspended
The Board OF Health attributes the cause also
which drain the territory between Filth
and the East River ana Nincysxth and 105th Streets
which open within eighteen inches OF each other Al
water the refuse material that rs brought down by
those sewers lies sweltering IN the In the years
1874 and 1875 the Board OF Health caused the street
Cleaning department TO stop dumping refuse ana
garbage for hlling in purposes ON that ground.
A resolution was adopted by the Board that the
Board of Apportionment be requested to transfer tho
unexpcnded balance OF So 900 fom the smallpox ap-
preparation Of 1876 to the dislnfecting fund.