National Republican., 1883-10-04
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current Trnnsnctions ut tho Various Dis
trIct Omcca.

tEAcN OtnccHs
Building permits were issued yesterday to
A. A. Jones to make repairs at 3101 and 31O3
street northwest to cost $1,000; John Cor
man, to mako repairs ut 1873 Second street
northeast, to cost $3.50; M. Gregory, to make
repairs at 10 Grant Place northwest, to cost
5000; j. i. Moxlcy, to make repairs at corner
of First and B streets southeast. to cost 81, 500
The commissioners have informed Mai.
Dye that, while there seems to be no inton-
tional carelcssness among coal dealers Us to
weights, it would be well to mako further
tests.
The bad condition of tho crossings at
Third and O and Third and = streets has
been complained of. The man hole of sawer
in alley between j aud Samson streets has
been complained of.
Messrs. Haywood & Hutchinson have noti-
fed the commissioners that y large leak in
front of SIS Ninth street may, if not attended
to- render travel unsafe.
gentleman in New York has forwarded n
letter from gentleman i'll England named
Prescott. who wants II pieco of timber from
Mount Vernon to bn used as frame for n por-
trait of Washington. The letter was referred
to the Mount Vernon authorities.
G.. A. Prathcr. ox-poiceman, has been ap-
pointed an additional private to do duty at the
Theatre Comique.
A dangerous manhole at the corner of Six
teenth and l. streets has been complained Of
Mai. Lydecker has returned from New York.
w. II. Fairbank requests the commissions
ers to grant u permit for the construction of
line of telegraph poles from Sixteenth and
Boundary, along Columbia street and Broad
branch, or Piorces mill road, to road rum
ming from Tennallytown to the Seventh
street road, thence to tho district line. Also,
| to construct an underground line from Six
teenth street along Boundary street to Fif-
/ 4. 4 10
avenue, to Seventh street, and thence to such
points as may be necessary to make proper
| connections with the government buildings,
the route to be located by the district engi-
| neer.
The health department has called attention
to the following nuisances: Hydrant corner
Fifth and @ streets northwest Qeaking); hy-
drant, Marion street, between p and Q streets
(dcfcctiveG pump, corner Seventh and o
streets QealSing); gutter, First, between and
| X streets northwest needs cleaningG gutter
on Il, between Eighth and Ninth streets
needs cleaning); sewer trap, corner Ninth
and Il streets southwest (needs cleaning).
The chief engineer and building inspector
have presented their report upon the examin-
alton of school houses and public halls as to
their safety from fire, setting forth that their
report of January covers the ground.
The commissioners have made u requisition
upon the chief of ordnance for eighty Spring
field rifles, caliber 45, and equipments.
The tax sale will conclude tomorrow.
The value of the Holmead property has
been computed and found to be about $4,000
This property is to be sold, the proceeds to &c
to school improvements.
OPERATIONS OF THE HEALTH OFFICE
The following synopsis of the operations o.
the health department for the week ending
Sept 20, 1883, is presented by Health Officer
Townshend:
Nuisances reported, 80; referred. 40
abated $40; referred to commissioners, 23
official notices issued, SO; citizens complaints
received %; inspections of Plumbing work
made, 32S; inspections made to ascertain
local causes of zymotic diseases, 8.
Garbage removed sol tons; dead animals
1OG; night soil, 1896 barrels. Animals i'm
pounded. III redeemed, 16; killed, As. I'm
wholesome food condemncd-144 pounds Of
meat, 12O watermelons, 40 cantnloupes, l.
bushels of miscellaneous fruit BAT bushels Of
miscellaneous vegetables.
Marine products inspected-4,09 900 punches
of fish, % mackere, l drumhsh, 4 turtles
LOO clans, 1900 crabs, and 10,099 bushels O
oysters. Marine products condemned-S
lunches of fish, 700 crabs, and 100 bushels o
oysters. "'hi"n
Patients treated by physicians to the poor
500; white, 105; colored, 224; visits, 394; !ofic
consultations, 13i cases referred to tho coro
ner, 3; burial at public expense, s. .
Vital statstics-The number of deaths oc
curing during tho week was 75; 81 white
and IS colored. The rate of mortality pc
; 1000 per annum being 1904 for the white
29.51 for the colored. and 1000 for the tota
population. There were % deaths iron
zymotic diseases, 10 from constitutional dis
= cases. 20 from local diseases, 8 from develop
mental diseases, violence 3, The principa
causes of death were measles, 1 ; typhoi
fever, l; typho-malarial fever, l malaris
| s., ,,,1,A n. o~~hA 4 lie
eases, 5; thrush, 2; cancer, 1 consumption
ii nervous diseases, 81 diseases of circulator
organs, s. bronchitis, 2; pneumonia, 3; con
gestion of lungs, l diseases of digestive OF
/ gans, 8 senile debility, 3, and burns g. Q
the decedents 13 We're over 60 years of agt
36 under 8, and 2l under year of age.
!, There were still births, 2 white and
colored
, There were Is marriages, IL white and
colored.
Births reported-There were 20 births re
ported, Al white and 30 colored.