New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-12
VISITS IN POOR HOMES.

| summer The inspection IL OF KINDS, police ana
medical The Sanitary Police are kept at work dairy
visiting tenemeuthouse Every inspector has ais
t1ct assigned him. it usually takes month "
coyer He receives and investigates all complaints, ana
reports twice a week to the Sanitary superintendent
Dr. Day. The medical inspectors, niY in LumDvr' ~
out and attend all special complaints OF sickness I'D
tenement-hou-es and especially look aiter SICK ehe"
In these places They report once week DE- James,
| ASSISTANT Sanitary superintendent sdid ID an'"" "
| the Inquiries of a TRIBUNE reporter;
"Tbe members Of the visiting corps went on dny Oh
Thursday July l. and for the half week ending Oh SAT
urday July 3, report having visited le'S09 Iah.'S'
contained in 2.873 houses. They founi 6V7 c1hdteh
who needed their care and they advised and prescribed
for them and also distributed few tickets OF INC IT.
Johns Guild Floating Hospital This tichet supply was
small They lind many cases OF sickness Wheio Tue
| family have physician, and That CLASS OF peope
usually depend dispensary tor medical ai anu uo
not send there until The child Is dangerously III lheh
there are ten chances TO that they 40 NOT get
physcan for twentyiour hours, the dispensaiy phS
scians have certain hours cal there aud take their
lists Thus a call for q physician ten minutes later
| would not he received until the following day. oar
visitors frequently find diseases in their inciency'
which simple prescription will set all right. but II neg
lectcd they aggravated and dangerous In ths
| way an excellent preventive work l. done"
| "HOw does the present hign temperature aneo1 '"e
| children in the tenementsP
"a great many children are sick from the Frects OF
the heat the moist weather The heat proves more
oppressive when the air contains great deal or m0l-
ture and evaporation retarded, the heat then sccn-
INITIATES. The hot muggy weather causes more suffer
ing than hot and dry weather. ana renders al less aoe
! TO resist the attach OF disease"
.'Hog does this years work compare with last years
| work to resultsP
tine speeial inspection made last year has had the
effect Of improving the condition OF tenenenthOuses
osdcrabIy but the greatest effect Is on the plans FOR
new houses of which the Health Board has absolute
control. II is easy TO Tut TIE ola houses mo
proper condition, but many OF them nave been torn
down and erected on the SIZES and these can
he built according to the letter OF he law Ihs "Ofh
| is going all the time"
DO you find any obstruction 10 your wcrkf'
There is class property in the hands Il irrespon-
| slblc persons, where cannot reach responsive
owner These persons allow themselves 10 be sued and
get all the delay possible the Courts We have had
great deal of annoyance, but of the irenents
Of the Board are readily compile with In large num-
Der of houses we had tine pu nbng placed in bet
ter condition. Every day are finding examples or
bad plumbing. Tue Board is gradually abolishing
vaults yards which are great nuisance ana 'uost
How does the work OF completing the tenement
lOuse record adyaoceP .,.
lodgers out Of the forty ordered. over one,hali
work sot is qon Se and ds Sy tar @S
the paus Irregular that We had 10 20 INTO ali
THIS made SLOW work. but uptown 1t is clearer
sailing for the lots rectangular aud the plans sih-
per are the same for all me houses thiousnonI
a whole block. From THIS time forward the records VIII
be completed more Rapidly"
TALK WITH AN INSPECTOR.
DE- Murtha. one OF the regular corps OF sanitary in
spectors was met by the reporter. D. 5Inrtha is en-
gagged In the Fourth Ward, among the low dives and
cellars which condemned IN 1877. and put ON rec
ord % being unn. for human Isoiiation.
'What il the condition of things among the cellar
dwellings in your district e. asked
rIx oil
Chatham Cherry James and Watersts contain most OF
these cellar habtltlons. don't know a siuge
these streets now that is occupied Sleeping apart
raeut Tie occupants have agreed 10 turn them into
Kitchens mostly At NJ 20 Wllan-St there Is the DO
torous double-dtc aer, which has cellar and suDce-
lar | went there W three months ago with body
OF 30 ce and turned tie beds cut upon the street.
and left pocemen guard. TIE OccGpins never took
the beds back No. 149 Chatham-st. i IN exception.
and nave ASKED he Grand jury TO lndct the place
The .neral condition Of the drainage OF the Sixth
| ward is PIE ty good barring accidents RON Directive
sewers and waste pipes. Toe people suher go0d deal
from damp collars when the tide comes 30. but that Is
almost unavoidable. the expense o. keeping out the
! tide would be enormous One man paid 81 $50 simply
~ @ Necessary To- bnd wall four or Ave feet thick Of
BRICK rand cement. III some places IN CAerry-st
have got lne owners MI up the cellars. leaving only
air spaces The condluon OF this wari is now better
| than it has ever beeu before"
MORTALITY IN THE TEYFMENT-HOUsEs.
How is this hot weather affecting the death rate,
and cspac ally what is Its eff Ct among the tenement
house children 2" TRIBUNE reporter asked Deputy
Register N4gle. DR.. Nagle sitting IN his oiee, at
No 3OI hottest, with the thermometer at 900 He re-
| pied:
| THE number of deaths OF children aud OF tenement
dwlcrs has increased with the advance in temp
Ny report to DR. Day. the Sanitary Sup riBtenden just
completed, shows that the highest weekly number Of
deaths reported during tn first SIX months OF this wear
was that for the week ending June 261 ,o3S-an unus
ally high for any week In June and the largest
| number in week that has occurred in New-York
CITY, with three exceptions for ten years The percent
age OF deaths tenemeut-hOus-s was J0.1S the
eentagc Of children under five OF 6511.
The create t adult mJrtaity among the Irsh but
the greatest mortality o. children under five years was
among Americans, the next among Germans. and the
| lowest among the Irisb."
ITO what do you attribute this changer
"To difference Of nursing June is usually considered
healthy month and The deIthrate is low bit the eiry
| advent Of weather. and It's long continuance,
/ cause the Increase. The total number OF deaths
OF children under five years for the week end
| ing June ID 2G7, aud for The week
ending jane 26, Az. TheIe Were .297 deaths
registered during the week ending july g. of
o59 compared with the number reported for
spondns week of last year. aud the exception OF the
week ending July g. 1872 the highest IN any one week
Inc greatest increase Of deaths in the week ending
july 3 was in icuemen l-hOuses and from Oiarrhea
Der was Dr. y me lhOftaiy among eulufth rus year.
tlan One-uat vas OF those under one year OF
The total inereas" OF deaths June II 10 Jalv
slS ui which 49l were III teneLehi lofts ana rs IA
containing ess than four families. and OF the s1s
G54 weie oaidTen. Tue twcutYsiX lives lost the
seswanha ka Increases The adnlt mmtali.y"
Or Naele Is preparing table, beginning win Janu-
airy l. 1850. 10 SHOW the death rate among children
ie"emrni aouses for the year Tor luturs conparisou
such table has never before el PREPARED. lie said
further: In the rst three months o. last the
taaiy was greater than Tor the esp0Jdng period
tbs year but ihs year e nrt3lliy for the las three