National Republican., 1883-07-12
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current Transactions at the Various Om-
ces Yesterday.


Building permits were issued yesterday to
DIR. w. T. Okie, to erect one brick dwelling
on N street, between Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth streets northwest, to cost 81, 900; Mrs
Il. w. Page, to build one brick dwelling ON
Nineteenth and S streets northwest, to cost
$l7,500; Il. b. Hughes, to build one brick
dwelling on Washington street, Uniontown,
to cost $2,5O0; H. A. Bailey, to build one
brick dwelling on + street, between Ninth
and Tenth streets northwest to cost $1,000;
Theodore Lyman, to build one stable in rear
of l407 Massachusetts, avenue northwest, to
cost $1,000; Aulick Palmer, to build three
brick dwellings on Seventh and ID streets
southeast, to cost 300; Il. L. King, to build
one brick dwelling on Fifth, near r street
northwest, to cost 81 300; Il. w. Woodruff to
make repairs at AL street northwest. to
cost $500; NJ. L. Berry, to make repairs at 416
L street southeast, to cost $500.
The commissioners received petitions yes
terday to lay flag crossings at Fourth and G
streets and at Market and Twenty-third
streets; for permission to replace old tele-
graph poles on Seventeenth street. near Con-
necticut avenue, with new ones; to place
street signs on the lamps in the vicinity of
Fifteenth and o streets; to fill up q stagnant
pool at Eighth and G streets northeast; to
erect street lamps at Fourth and l, Fourth
The special assessment division has issued
the following: Up to the close of business
July z, 1888, the total issue of drawback Ger.
tifcates was $717, 7,934.65; total issue adjusted
awaiting proof of ownership, $13, AGO. S5; un-
paid assessments due to the First National
bank, of New York, as revised without in
terest), $685. 79l.61, on which interest is due
for an average of eleven years at 10 per cent,
per annum. Unpaid assessments pledged to
the redemption of the per cent. bonds
without INTEREST,", $3.50, 1895, on which in
terest is due for an average OF eight years at
10 per cent. per annum, $464,63l.96 total,
81, ,045, ,42l 81. Outstanding per cent. bonds,
par, $362, 400, add accrued interest, estimated
at per cent. from maturity, $4,000 total
S532 400.
The commissioners have approved the plan
of changing the alley in square 1873 closing it
on Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets north
west, and opening on S and Lawrence.
Deaths reported July 1l-Pansey p. Wise
man, entero colitis; William Michaels,
CHOLERA infantum; Dismel Delaney, diarrhGa ;
James p Fitzhugh, diarrh@a; John Gessford,
diarTh9a; Francis b. Noonan, commissions (;
Magdaline b, Young, oongenital debility.
The following synopsis of the operations of
the health department for week ending July
| z, 1883, is presented by Health Officer Towns
hend: Nuisances reported, 29S; referred 63 I;
abated, 259; referred to commissioners IA
official notices issued, SO; citizens complaints
received 40; cases referred to coroner, l /;
cases referred to chemist, o; cases referred to
attorney, o; inspections of plumbing work
made, 10; inspections made to ascertain local
causes of zymotc disease, 3 garbage re-
moved, 302 tons; dead animals, "a; night
SOIL $40 barrels; animals impounded, 6;
redeemed, A; unwholesome food condemned
456 pounds of meat, 131 bushels of fruit, 1044
bushels of vegetables, $50 heads of cabbage,
475 dozen cucumbers 141 cymlings, dozen
bananas. Marine products inspected ALA
punches of fish, 547 Spanish mackerel, As
surgeons 33 pounds of salmon, 2 sea tur-
ties, $4,000 clans, 41,050 crabs, 1850 soft
crabs 297 bushels of oysters. Marine pro-
ducts condemned: 81 bushels of fish, 80
pounds salmon, surgeons, 1894 clans, 1860
crabs. Patients treated by physicians to the
poor, 2S4; white, so; col ored, 204; visits, 440;
office consultations, 81 cost of medicines fur
nished, 1920.
Vital Statistics.-The number Of deaths
occurring during the week was 109--63 white
and AZ colored-the rate of mortality per
| 1000 per annum being 25.04 for the white,
3642 for the colored, and 29,52 for the total
population. There were 81 deaths from zy-
motto diseases 26 from constitutional diseases
2S from local diseases, IL from developmental
diseases; violence, 6, The principal causes
of death were-Diphtheria, 1 ; measles, ty-
phoid fever, 2; malara fevers, p inanition,
/ diarrh9a, 30; consumption, II cancers, 81
diseases of digestive organs, Z; convulsions 4;
pneumonia, q bronchitis, l /; Bright's disease,