National Republican., 1883-08-10
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current transactions nj the Various Dis
trtct Offices.

trict Omces.
The health officer has turned over to tho
collector of taxes $S1 collected as pound fees
during July.
The property owners on Fourteenth street,
between Pennsylvania avenue and b street
northwest, have called the attention of the
commissioners to the deplorable condition Of
that street.
The major of police has been instructed by
the commissioners to cause the removal of
sign boxes from the public streets.
The commissioners yesterday appointed DIR.
KleinsChmidt a physician of the police and
fire department, vice DIR. Newman resigned.
Tho commissioners yesterday granted per-
mission to the police to go on an excursion to
be given by the Grand Army. A certain num-
Der, upon application, will be granted leave,
SO as not to impair the efficiency of the force.
| The commissioners yesterday rescinded the
order of Jan. 3, 1881, which permitted the
tender of payment of special assessments to
stop interest, and directed that all future
payments of the assessments must include
interest.
| The commissioners have allowed $50 to the
woman's dispensary.
There were twenty-one fires during last
month, involving % loss of $3.50, with an in
surance of $1,000, During the same period
last year there were fourteen fires, involving
n loss of $4,4l2.
Building permits were issued yesterday to
| 9. G.. Duncanson to make repairs corner
| Ninth and ID streets northwest, to cost $500
| Wash b. Williams to build back building at
633 Louisiana avenue northwest, to cost 5000
trustees of Calvary Baptist church TO make
repairs to cost $3.50.
| The building inspector has recommended
the expenditures of $50 to repair the wall of
the third precinct station.
The annual report of Sanitary Officer
| anh tnl nd oh,
that during the last fiscal year 1888 patients
were taken to the Washington Asylum hos
pital, 602 to the Freedman's hospital, 316 to
Providence hospital, 149 to the government
hospital for the insane, 1S9 to the almshouse,
26 to Children's hospital, IL to Columbia hos
pital, 2 to st. AIMS infant asylum, 4 to Little
Sisters of Poor, to Soldiers Home hospital
and 10 removed from place of residence to
their homes, making total of ,794 cared for
| by the sanitary department of the police
1,107 of these were white and 657 colored
| Transportation to different points was fur
nished to 300 individuals. The report speaks
| of the urgent necessity of an inebriate asy-
lum in this city, and expresses thanks to the
Freedman's hospital, Providence hospital,
Washington Asylum hospital, st. AIMS in
fant asylum, and the government hospital for
the insane for their kind and courteous
treatment of the Office and the prompt man
nor in which they have received all cases
Maj. Dye is now preparing his report which
will contain some interesting facts about the
decrease of robberies within the past year.
During the first three.quarters of the last
fiscal year tho average number Of burglaries
robberies, and thefts for each quarter was
143, whereas in the last quarter the number
was only l12. The decrease in the number
OF burglaries is particularly striking. While
there was an average of AZ in each of tho first
three-quarters there were only % in the last
quarter. The number of burgaries in the
quarter preceding the passage of that law was
81, while in the last quarter of the year just
closed the number fell to %. decrease of 800
per cent.
During the last quarter of 1882 the number
of otienses against property was 206, against
1l2 for the last quarter of 1888, showing that
the law was not the only cause of this de.
crease During the last quarter of 1882, %
burglaries were reported, and of these arrests
were made i'll only s cases. In the CORE
spending quarter of the year just closed Il
arrests were made out of the % cases reported
A singular feature of the statistics is that il
some quarters of the past year great man,
more arrests were made than there were cases
reported, as arrests were made in one quarter
that belonged to cases reported in preceding
quarters. .Hi to4 .
The commissioners have written letters t.
the mayors of New York, Philadelphia, an,
Baltimore, asking for information about the
personal tax system, the rates of taxes, reve-
nues, &c.
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