The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-21

The Council Committee on ihe Relief ol sh
Poor ts authorized TO plsce and keep In ese!
OF them, without any additional charge <
The city, number OF children not exceed
| ing five. With the exception, probably, o
two OF them, there Is not one child pIscet
within their walls from year to year.
There have been admitted into the Aims
house Hospital from January /, 1891, ts
August Is, 1881, $40 patients white, lis
eosored, Ie2.
There have been treated 8. the Mediea
College Dispenssry from January 3, 1881
10 August IL, 1881, 1896 paiienis-white
1874; eoiored, 3.702.
There have been treated at the Richmond
Eye, Ear, and Throat in6rmiry from Jan
usry 8, 1881, to August 18th, 143 patients
white, 81; colored, 165.
DIR. Csbeli NAV show bow many patients
have been trested at the smallpox hospital
Nearly all OF them have been eolored; sno
there would haye been no patients 10 thai
hospital il the law had protected them BY
making vaccination and reysccination com
puLSory.
Vaccination laws are very strict In SONS
OF the European States.
Ii is safe TO say that mspy hundred pre-
scriptious have been filed for the sick poor
by the city, drugstores at ten cents each.
The writer insists that il IL not fsri, az
affecting the white men, TO Judge from tbs
general mortality statistics.
Last year the rate OF mortality OF whole
population was 26 90; rate Of mortality oI
lchiie population, 1899; OF the solored
population, 81 64.
-Four hundred and eighty secen colorst
children died, ranging from one to ST,
years OF sge, a percentage OF 27 81 Of 10,
total number OF deaths, white and c9lored,
OF all sges-1, ,750-and a percentage ot
As 20 Of the total number OF deaths OF ne
grOes OF all ages--l,0 ,009.
IL becomes all OF US TO strive to reducs
this great mortality among the negro rae
by precept aud example. We cannot and
would not rid ourselves Of the neqr,
IL we could. The late llmented DIR. Joynei
has shown that the negro, after sttainin.
the age OF twenty years, has nearly as fsil
! prospects, II not quite as fair, for liyini
many years as the white. Z.
Sandstone and Curious Things.
Nessrs. Editors As there seems to b
a good deal said Jus, now about the quslit,
as well as the quantity OF our city water
a. ntii a. NuO -uHlV-NA iVt0vuVu~
and wells about Richmond, think the ex
tracts below, from Hugh Miller's Old Re-
Sandstone, may afford some consolation Il
those who belong TO the sIay-st-home bri
gade and the can't-gtt-away division.
G. L.
"There could be very curious chapter
written on mineral springs in connsctio,
with the formations through which thsl
pass. SmolOtts masterpiece, honest OH
Mathew Bramble, became thoroughly dis
gus'ed with the Bath waters on discoyeriu.
that they filtered through an ancient bury
ing-gr0und belonging 10 the Abbey, anC
that much OF their peculiar taste and odol
might probably be owing 10 the 'rotteE
bones and mouldering cafcasses' through
which they were strained. Some OF tb,
springs OF the Old Red Sandstone have slst
the church-yard taste. but the bones spC
esrcasses through which they strain sr'
much older than the Abbey buryiDg-grounC
at Bath"
Speaking Of the waters oi the celebrated
Strstbpeffer Springs, Hugh Miller says
"They contain, as shown by chemlex
snslysis, the sulphstes Of soda, Of lime, o.
msgnesia, common salt, and, above all, sui
phurated hydrogen gas-elements which
masses OF sea-mud, charged with anima
matter, would yield as readily 10 the chemist
as the medicinal springs Of Sirsthpener.'
sis ii not a reflection equally curious thai
the invalids Of the present summer should
be drinking health amid the recesses ol
Strathpefer from the s,il more ancient
mineral and animal dtbris OF the Iowel
ocean OF the Old Red Sandstone, Strangely
elaborated for vast but unreekoned period.
in the bowels Of the eartb."
"The fact may remind us Of one OF ihs
specifics OF now obsolete school OF medi
cine which fiourisned about two centuries
ago, and which included in its motert<
medicd portions OF the human frame
Among these was the hesb Of E2yptieI
mummes impregnated with the embalminl
drugs-the dried muscles and sinews Of bu
man beings who had walked the streets o
Tbebes or Of Luxor three thousand year
ago."