The Portland daily press., 1880-03-02

Estimated expenditures. 1000
Unexpended balance .......S 1000
There are 126 inmates of house and % in
hospital. Expense per head in hospital, $2.4S
In house, S1.99 So. There have been So ad-
mitted to the hospital, and the same dis
charged.
SUPERINTENDENT OF BURIALs.
The following is Mr.. j. S. Gould's report /:
Whole number of deaths in the city during
the year, $780, died away and brought here for
interment, 1863. From the following causes:
abscess, 1; accident, 49, apoplexy, 5; asthma,
l; blood poison, L; disease of bowels, II; dis
ease of brain, As; Bright's disease, 8; bron-
chitis, 2; burned, 2; cancer, 90 canker, l.;
childbirth, 8; cholera infantum, SO; cholera
morbus, Z; congestive fever, 3; consumption,
146; commissions, 8; Group, %; diphtheria, 81;
diarrhea, 4; drowned, Z; dropsy, II; erysipe-
las, 3; fits. q. fever, 2; general debility, 4;
gangrene, 1; disease Of heart, "a hydrophobia,
1; infantile,s2 S; insanity, 8; disease of kidney
5; lockiaw, Il liverscomplaint, s; lung fever,
5; disease of lungs, IA; measles, q nervous
prostration, A; old age, AZ; pneumonia, 80;
paralysis, 30; poison, 3; rheumatic fever, 2;
rupture, l; spinal meningitis, l; scarlet fever,
II; still BORN AZ; suicide; ), scrofula, L; SIN all
pox, 1; teething, 81 typhoid fever, 3; tum or,
Z; tuberculosi, 1; ulcer, 1; unknown, 81:
whooping cough, 4-total, 1913.
4geS-Still-born, AZ; under one year, 127:
one to five, Ill; five to ten, 43; ten to twenty,
forty to fifty, 80; fifty to sixty, As; sixty to
seventy, ~; seventy to eighty, 81; eighty to
ninety, 25; ninety to one hundred, 2; one hun
bred and upwards, l..
Buried in the following named cemeteries:
Evergreen Cemetery, Deering, 1886; Forest
City Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth, ST. Calvary
Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth, 261; Western Gem.
etery, city, 49, Eastern Cemetery and CITY
tomb, %; died in this city and removed away
70; total, 1913.
Soroc' Mole, 400. for,olos 400 r.., 600
CITY PHYSICIAN.
DR.. Ring reports March l, 1872 there were
20 patients in Hospital. During the year 81
were admitted, SO have been discharged well
or improved and Is died from the following
causes: Consumption l, syphilis 2, bronchitis
l, heart disease 1, brain disease 1, scarlet fever
2 Daily average of patients o.. Have made
year, attended and dispensed medicine to CSC
| patients from aims house. Five children have
| been born and twins twice. Compliments are
paid the officers and nurses. Hospital con.
| tains three wards, with IL beds in each ward
| The two lower wards have been in constant
use, and the upper only few weeks. The
Greedy Hospital has been most economically
| and carefully managed There have been 854
professional visits made to the city poor.
| When the city government makes the neces-
sary corrections in drainage and abates many
unmitigated nuisances there will be less money
needed for support of poor. There were two
| cases small poX.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
| Nahum Littlefeld, chief engineer, makes
| the following report of his department from
| March 1, 1879 to March l. 1880:
| Whole number of fires and alarms. 81
| Alarms for fires in the city ........ AZ
| Alarms for fires out of the city .....,.
Extinguished without alarms.
C Ci'iSo a,ai hnr,ino
Amount of loss. .............. ........ S39344 Is
Insurance paid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO 23O Is
Excess OF loss over insurance. lila OC
Amount OF appropriations. .......... 10000 OC
Running expenses. Observation-Disclosures. 1898 o.
Balance on hand Observation-Disclosures. 1,1O6 96
All of the apparatus connected with the de-
partment has received extensive repairs dur
ing the past year. The tubes of engines No
l, and 3 are getting old and will probably
have to be replaced with new ones the coming
year. would respectfully recommend dspos,
ing OF No. 8 hand engine and hose carriage at
Llbby's Corner and the purchase of a combin-
ed chemical engine and hook and ladder truck,
the same to be located at the corner of Con-
gresS and Vaughan streets. would also re-
commend that relief valves be attached to the
several engines in the department, so that the
firemen can have control of the stream, to avoid
the playing of so much water when and where
it is not needed.
There are now in service in the department
II 800 feet of q inch hose. No new hose has
been purchased for the last two years, and as
the hose now ON hand is getting old and is not
reliable for steamer use, I would recommend
the purchase of at least 5000 feet of hose dur
ing the coming year.
GAS AGENT.
The report of the gas agent is covered by the
report OF the President Of the Gas Co. The
amount of gas sold the past year was 40, 40 900
cubic feet. the quality of which,. according
to the President was kept up to the highest
STANDARD. On August the price of gas was
reduced to $3.50 per 1000 feet. The number of
street lamps in use is 49,
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH.
Mr. l.. l.. Cummings, superintendent of the
hire alarm telegraph, makes the following re-
ports
The wire and machinery are in good condi-
ton and think have worked satisfactorily
during the past year. About D miles of new
wire has been put up with as little expense as
possible. One new signal box, No 65 located
on Grove street, has been added during the
year. The striker on Williston church proved
too light for the bell and has been replaced by
larger one which gives perfect satisfaction
A new bell has been purchased and put into
the Congress street Methodist church, and will
soon be connected with our telegraph
The fire alarm telegraph lis connected with
the following bells:
Willston church. Observation-Disclosures O4O mounds
st. Stephens church. ....... & 600 g