National Republican., 1883-10-18
TIE COMMISSIONERS.
Current Transactions at the Various Dls-
1riot OnIces.


Rev. DR. w. W Patton, president of Howard
university, has protested against the grant.
ing of liquor licenses TO applicants OH tho
Seventh street road giving rs his reasons
first, because of the general nuisance which
they make, consuming the means of the poor
and producing poverty, idleness, and crime;
second because when near an institution of
education, they corrupt tho youth; third be-
cause some of those heretofore lincensed in
this neighborhood are the habitual resorts of
tho lowest and most vicious classes, &C., &C.
For these reasons the board of commissioners
is implorod to exert its power to preserve the
neghborhood of the university from this
curse.
The commissioners and representative of
the postal telegraph company held a confer
enco yesterday and the permit recently
granted was modified so as not TO give the
company the entire privilege Of the route
designated.
| The lists of unlicensed dogs compiled by
the police show that 800 unlicensed dogs rep.
resenting 221 owners. have boen found in the
fifth precinct 25S, representing 141 owners
in the third, and the largest number, 500
dogs, representing AL owners, in the seventh
The commissioners have been pettioned to
open a thoroughfare from New Jersey avenue
southeast to the heart oftho city by way Of /,
X, or l. streets to South Capitol street.
been completed and will be occupied next
week.
Building permits were issued yesterday to
Mrs. John II. Plant, to make repairs on
Fourteenth street, between II and streets
northwest, to cost $l75; A. Rogers, to make
repairs at COS Twelfth street northwest, to
cost 5000; Chas, Baum, to build one store and
dwelling on Eighth street northwest, to cost
$4,000; James Fitzgerald to make repairs at
No. 33 S street northwest, to cost $l00.
Maj. Dye has been investigating tho COM
plant of Mr. Tappen, of the S. p. G. A. who
alleged that prisoners locked up over Satur-
dap night were kept without food until Mon
day morning.
Citizens want houses on North Carolina
avenue remembered.
Up to Friday last 1,753 dog tags had been
issued, and the number has been increased
this week to 1000.
OPERATIONS OF THE HEALTH OFFICE.
The following synopsis of the operations of
| the health department for the week ending
| Oct. 10, 1888, is presented by Health Officer
Townshend:
Nusances reported, 1852; reproved, So;
| abated, i55; referred to commissioners, 81
official notices issued, 80; citizens complaints
received, 2i; cases referred to coroner, 4
inspections of plumbing work made, 81; in
| spections made to ascertain local causes of
zymotic disease, 2; garbage removed, 393
| tons; dead animals, 100; night soil, $40 bar
rels; animals impounded, 65 redeemed, 8;
killed, So; unwholesome food condemned, 222
| pounds of meat, 37Y bushels of fruit, 65l
bushels of vegetables, and dozen eggs.
Marine products inspected, 10,S19 bushels
of oysters, S,6OS punches of fish, 6 surgeons,
81 sheephead, IL drumish, 81 mackerel, and
| $3.50 crabs marine products condemned, 625
| punches of fish and 3,l0S crabs.
Patients treated by physicians to the poor,
337; white, 90; colored, 2i7 visits, $780, of
| fee consultations, 149.
Vital statistics-The number of deaths oc-
curing during the week was 20; A white,
and 26 colorcd. The rate of mortality per
1000 per annum being 17.SS for the white /;
20.19 for the colored, and 1868 for the total
| population. There were Ia deaths from
zymotic diseases, l6 from constitutional dis
eases, 20 from local diseases, 8 from develop
mental diseases, and 2 from violence. The
principal causes of death were: Measles, l !;
crouE 1 scarlet fever, 1; typhoid fever, q;
typhomalarial fever, 1; bilious fever, l /;
diarrhGa, 2; whooping cough, 3 cancer, l
consumption, 10; heart diseases 3; bron-
chitis, l pneumonia, 2; diseases Of digestive
organs, 10 Brights disease, 3 congental
debility, 8; servile debility, 2 railway acci-
dent, l, and suffocated by gas, 1. Nine were
over 60 years of age and seventeen under {
years.
Still births-3 white and / colored.
Marriages-10 whites and 10 colored. '
Births reported-50 white and 80 colored.