New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
TENEMENT.HousE INSPECTION.

ENAiOA"
q STAFF OF FIFTY MEDICAL INSPECTORS TO BE Az
POINTED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH TO-DAY
THEIR MANNER OF WORKING.
The annual medical inspection of the city,
under the direction OF the Board of Health will begin
ths week early next week Special inspectors will be
appointed to-day The principal object OF this inspee-
ton take OF the health of the Children said
Dr. Jaynes yesterday "a large number of families have
no physician they get their medicines from the dspen-
sares when they get any at ALL call in doctor at the
last moment for the sake Of obtaining burial cert-
cate. When parent to dispensary for physi-
cian II takes some time 10 get Onegeneraly twenty
four hours The dispensaTy physicians usually call at
the dispensares day. get the lists OF applications
and 60 their tour OF visits message received after
the lists for the day have been taken on cannot be at
tended to until the following day. This delay, added TO
that Of the parents making application, is fatal in
very many cases. For special medical visitation Tue
city Is divided into dstrietslast year there fifty
three ty-fOur; each placed in charge Of regular
part of every day the work of visiting from house to
house. and making inquiries as to its sanitary conduOn
and the health OF its inmates. Where they IND physi
clans employed the" duty ceases but In mutitudes OF
tenementhouse, they are able to accomplish great
deal In detecting sickness in its early stages ana aiso
in preventing sickness by removing predspOsg causes
u Is also their duty to advise mothers as 10 the care OF
taken in the Summer and early Fall They distribute
leaflets printed in both English and German and con
tanning sanitary advice so simply stated as 10 DC
understood by the most Ignorant Druggists All over he
city agree to put up medicines on the prescriptions OF
these medical inspectors at cost price, even without
charge when the parents are really poor; ana at the
IS kept for distribution among the poor The medical
inspector goes through mis- district Systematically,
visiting every house which is likely TO require MS az
tendance, and when the rounds have been completed
begins and traverses them again 1t is his business only
attend to the health OF the people, and paTtcuar OF
sanitary condition of house his duty TO refer the
matter the Board Of Health and the report is sent 10
the regular sanitary inspector OF the district Last year
1Gs peeT3h eT Tsed and
lies; prescribed 7l9 different aud distributed
512S tickets for excursions on the barge employ Io
the by ST. Johns Guild"
The pressing necessity for some such work as TINS Is
shown by the following deathllst for last summer: In
June 1877 there were III New-YOrk 154S9 deaths, OF
which O6S were OF children five years OF in
July 25517 deaths, 1855 of children under five; in
August 10 95S deaths, 5,905 Of children under five
The regular sanitary inspection OF the city carried
on in the same general way all OF the year. the
only difference being that in Winter more attention mas
be paid to the interior arrangement OF houses Vena
ton, drainage ETC., and in summer 10 yards yaults
drains etc For the purpose Of such inspection tne city
below One-hundred-aDd-twenty fth-st is divided INTO
ten inspection districts with two districts above one
and two of these inspectors have assistants. There
Is one special inspector whose duty Is rather
that Of an engineer and milk n inspector t1bcT
ever they are sent Tn results Of constant inspee-
ton have been beneficial the health Of the CITY, Peo
ole have been prevented from living in cears-thOugh
In many cases they have be driven out and over
again prOpretOrs of tenement-houses have been COM
PEELED TO repair their drains enlarge their rooms ana
limit the number Of their dodgers The population OF
GOthamcourt the most dcnsey packed mass OF buildings
In NewYork has been reduced about One-iaf ana the
character OF the buildings has been materially improved
inspections thorough, Dr. Jaynes says as Is
possible with few inspectors and so large districts
flo make careful inspection OF all the tenementhouses
in this city would require fifty men for one year IN
were published early in 1870. The enect was gOOu
all or nearly all the tenementhOuses in the city were
Improved somewhat aud certain points in the tenement
house law were enforced windOws were put into dark
bedrooms, and ventilatOrs were put into TOOLS