National Republican., 1883-05-25
TIE COMMISSIONERS.
Record OF Days Doings at the DIstrIc
Building.

hccoru OF Days Dotnga nc the District
Building.
The commissioners have requested the
secretary of the navy to loan them a steam
launch to be used in enforcing the fishing
laws.
The commissioners yesterday issued an
order closing the district offices on memorial
day.
The contract for supplying 100 900 asphalt
blocks was yesterday awarded to tho Mary.
land Paving company.
The contracts for street paving were
yesterday awarded to Messrs. Crawford &
Barber.
During tho month of April, 1883, there
were 3S1 deaths in the District of Columbia
decrease of 81 as compared with IN pre-.
ceding month. OF this number, 10P were
white males, 112 white females, S3 colored
males and 10 colored females, giving o death
rate of 20.Sl 1000 per annum for the white,
2060 for the colored, and 1881 for the total
population. Compared with the month of
April for the past nine years, the returns for
this month show the greatest number of
deaths and the highest death rate for tho
whites, while for the colored the reverse holds
true, so far as the death rate is concerned,
this month showing the lowest rate of NOR
tality Of any April during this period. Tho
death rate Of the total population was 16
:. The diseases which increased the mortality
among the white population were measles,
Group, diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas,
rheumatism, consumption, cancer, nervous
diseases, heart diseases, and senile debility,
while whooping cough, inanition, consump-
tion, and other tubercular diseases bron-
chitis, pneumonia, and other lung diseases,
premature birth, accidents, and negligence
were tho main cause of death among the col
orcd population.
Measles caused 3 Deaths Group 8; diph-
theria, 9; scarlet fever, 10; typhoid fever, 4
typho-malarial fever, 81 malarial fever, 3
diarrh9al diseases, 81 whooping cough, 3;
erysipelas, 4 1; inanition, 9; rheumatism, z;
consumption, So; nervous diseases, so; heart
diseases, 10; pneumonia, A; bronchitis, 8
congestion Of lungs, o; congenital debility, 12;
violence, 8. Nearly 20 per cent of the de-
cedents were under 1 year Of age "a per
cent. were under years of age, and over 4S
per cent. were under 20 years Of age. Thirty
eight per cent. were over 40 years of age,
leaving only Ia per cent. between the ages Of
20 and 40 years.
Of those dying Of consumption, 25 per
cent. were under 10 years of age, 46 per cent.
between 10 and 40, and 80 per cent over 40
years of age. Of the total number of de-
cedents, 90 per cent. were natives of the dis
trict, while of those dying Of consumption
less than 30 per cent. were natives, and of
these 20 Of the % were colored-a very favor
able showing for the white native population.
The average daily mortality for the month
was 1877. The highest mortality (24) was
reached on the fifth, the lowest az on the
| eighth and twenty-ninth.
The average age of the white decedents was
81 years; of the colored, less than 10. The
greatest number of deaths (49) occurred in
the fifth sanitary division, the smallest num-
beT (5) in the twelfth. Twenty-six deaths
occurred in Georgetown, 2S5 in Washington,
25 in the county, and DE- in various public in
stitutions. Fifteen white males, 80 white
females z colored males, and 8 colored TO-
males were widows or widowers Al white
males, 80 white females, 20 colored males,
and colored females were married and Ia
white males, 7white females, 3 colored males,
and colored females were single.
Sixty-fivc per cent. of the white males, 81
per cent. of the white females, AZ per cent of
the colored males, and 90 per cent. of the'col-
ored females were over twenty years of age.
The mean barometer was 30039. The
highest barometer (30.436) was on the four
| teenth; the lowest (29.623) on tho twenty
third; the monthly range, .813 The highest
| temperature (762) was on the twenty eighth;
the lowest (25.9) on the first. ,Ar,
There were nineteen days ON which rain
fell, and 400 inches fell during the month
There were thirty-soven white, twenty
colored, and one mixed marriage reported
during the month fifty-six white mail sixty
one white female, fifty-two colored male, and
forty-two colored female births reported among
which number three were white and three
colored cases of twins. There were fifteen
white and sixteen colored still births. Seven
white and twenty-four colored decedents
were buried at public expense. Fifteen per-
sons dying outside the district were buried
within its limits. Nine transfer permits
were issued for tho removal of bodies already
inferred.
1t is stated that Commissioner Edmonds
has been elected proxy of the district in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company to vote
upon the 81 $500 of stock held in this city
and Georgetown.
John A. Rawlins Post, No. /, G.. A. R.,
have sent resolution to the district commits
sioners asking them to waive the rule rela-
tive to the height in the case of John T. Nor
gan, an applicant for position on the police,
he being five-eighths of an inch below the
standard also, that it is the sense of the
John A. Rawlins post, No. l, that as an ex-
ception has been made in the case of an ex-
rebel, the claim of a union soldier is entitled
| to some consideration"
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