Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-17
District Government Affairs,

The accounts of the District Commissioners
have not yet been laid before the first controller
of the Treasury, so that decision in the case
Of Mr.. w. B. Reed has not been made by that
officer.
DR.. VIM. L. Hudson, physician to the poor for
the sixth sanitary division, has resigned his
office, and Dr. D. B. Street has been appointed
VIM. E. Gates has been appointed by the Dis
trict Commissioners as private on the Metro
politan Police, and Richard Hamilton to be sta
Colonel william Keyser, vice president Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to-day,
through Mr.. Peter Campbell, as agent, paid up
the full amount of special taxes Levised as
sessed against that railroad In this District
UNwHoLEsoME SCHOOL ROOMS
The District Commissioners have received a.
note from the health officer inviting their at
tention to the unsuitable condition of the
apartments in the basement floor of the 18th
Street Baptist Church building for a school
room; that the room is 235sx264 feet II feet
high, having an air space Of $3.50 cubic feet, and
as it accommodates sixty pupils, furnishes but
about ia cubic feet per pupil This amount
would be entirely Inadequate with the best pro-
there is no such provision. the condition of the
atmosphere after few hours occupation can
better be imagined than described. The light
tat1ng the use OF gas on cloudy days The
pupils complain Of nausea, headache, &C. He
states that its use as school room should not
be longer continued.
According to the report OF Health Off1cer
TOwnshend the total mortality in the District.
OF Columbia for the month OF January, 1880, was
1923, IA decrease of 81 as compared with corre-
spending month Of last year, and 81 less than
the average number of deaths for the month of
January for the past six years., or at the rate
the white population was 16s, or at the rate Of
17.6S per 1,000 per annum. while that of the coll
ored was 1885, or at the rate Of 1921. The NOR
tality, as compared with the month OF DeceH-
hpr O n n or o
The deaths from smallpox increased from to
12. The average daily mortality was 1O.42, be-
ing .29 Of more than last month. OF the deaths,
2l2 occurred In Washington, 80 In Georgetown,
80 in the county and 81 In the hospitals. OF the
total 1928 deaths 49, or 22.6 per cent, were under
year Of age, while the total mortality under S
years Of age was 1876, or Ais per cent There
were 39s births reported, IAN annual birth rate
OF 2S2 per 1,000.) OF these births ia were white
males, 115 white females, 80 colored males and
population Of 24:11 per 1000 per annum, and
1921 for the colored), showing an increase OF
total population by excess OF births over deaths
coloTed by IA. OF the births reported % occurred
in Georgetown, 1928 In Washington, 80 in the
county and IA In the hospitals. There were 81
St stu, births, Ghe same as last la Il MONTH, white,
age; white and colored were picked up I'm
alleys and other places the parentage except
as to color unknown. Marriages reported, 1o4-
white 20, colored "a; 81 were reported by Bap-
tist clergymen, s by Presbyterian, IA by Episco-
palian, IS by Methodist, 8 by Catholic, 5 by Ger
man Evangelical, by Hebrew and each by
Campbellite, German Reform, Congregational,
and denomination unknown. There were
permits for foreign deaths issued and II trans
fers; ID white and 40 colored were buried at
public expense.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION IN SOUTH WASHINGTON.
committee of South washington citizens
called upon the District Commissioners this
morning to enter protest against the use Of
street southwest as route for the tracks OF
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad when it
shall have been removed from Maryland and
Virginia avenues, and naming street south
west and Water street as the proper route for
committee that the protest relative to any par
ticular route was premature, fnasmuen as the
bill now pending before Congress empowers the
Commissioners to select q site for depot and
Commute not to borrow any trouble on this
score until the other matter OF the union depot
was settled. The spokesman, Mr.. Davidson,
said they desired to make record from the
not be selected for a route to reach any union
depot which may be selected.
BUILDING PERMITS
have been issued by'Inspector Entwisle as fol-
lows T. II. Harper, repair brick, 306 /, between
80 and 4th sts- NV; s, 400. Mr.. Lindsay, re-
pair brick, 915 Pennsylvania ave. NV; $3.50.
and basement brick dwelling, Connecticut ave.
and Jefferson Place; 200. A. r. Barker. con-
struct two-story dwelling, 18th, between
and G sts sw.; 81 500. n. ]. Allen, construct
four two-story brick dwellings, r, between 1lth
more, construct two-stogy brick Dwelling. D.
between ID and 3D. SITS sw.; N,100.
uMayor Nyard was yesterday reelected
mayor OF Montreal, Canada