New-York tribune., 1885-01-11

Meningitis and Encephal,s.---....--.. ~ 80
Membrenous Group toogg Sof
Puerperal diseases r9i 6z3
aarssmus scroiaia ......-...---. 9ss @ go
Bronchitis. ----.--.-.---:.-''--'''a'g29 so 3i5s
Brights disease. i'o'o
repeat. the pubic must he prepared for severe
,e son with the possibility OF as high mortality as
In 1881. when the total deaths reached 3S,624, OF
which 81 III occurred in tene'nents.
RESULTS OF USsANIT,RY CONDITIONS.
The effects of unsanitary conditions are cum
slative. The first generation OF I'm migrants arc
asually q picked class of pioneers, many OF them
,turay peasants reared in the ope1 ar an1
with robust constitutions These load Tue way o"'
thew afterwar,l with their earnings bring
,yer the weak. the aged and the
lazy VINO have remained ut homo. The tenement
popu,stion is largely composed of such immigrants.
share of the strength gained in the fields OF Con-
,emsra and Saxony or beneath the shadow OF
Vesuyius and along the banks OF TIE Rhine Is IN
herited by the offspring of these people But TINS
yicor is gradually sapped by the influence OF oad
air, poor food and unsanitary conditions Ii Is
noteworthy that the children OF immigrants DoTh
Ia the coantry amid wholesome conditions and WIN
spportunities for education and refinement, steadily
improve and the Younger chlldron are Vastly gu
oer,or to their elder brothers and sisters In the
s,ums of our great cities the reverse is the case.
Alter ten or nfIeeH yetfS vi oAp'rNO w e~''''"-'
house influences the parents have less vitality to
confer upon thoir children aud the latter peceptaoy
decline Here are the statistics for 1883;
Deaths der year SS.d
D. ,stns under five years isSS1o
DcIths over five years 20l5o
To apprcciate the enormous mortality OF children
m New-York, we must compare these figures wIfh
the death record in other places. For example, ut
Schooley's Moantain n. j.. thcre has been but one
death of a child under FIVE in eight years, and at
Newport, N. IL. in 1888, oaly one eaiid unier the
school age died, and the average ions't"y WAS
s,ghty-foar years and three moatah La raris
l4.sO0 children and in London $1,000 children
under five died in 1888, against IL, SJ6 IN New
Ymk in the same year.
HOW THEY BECAME HARDENED.
The public becomes hardened to horrors ana
reals OF the high death rate in the tenenents with
the same coolness az a newspaper account OF INC
last railway accident. So also the health orhcias
Get inurel to the daily spectacle Of death
and burial, aud regard the vast sacrifice
Of life as inevitable. 1t is but natural
that the poor also shoDld become cnllous
toward death and Suffering Even little children
sneak of the loss of sister other relative with
ont feellng and adults arc almost indifferent IN
their tone when speaking, as is their custom. OF
of those they have buried. In the notorious
House of Blazes IN Muibeny-5t., which ~ hNea
with dramkards. a hard-fcaturcd, sharp-voiccd
woman remarked: 81 lost a boy Of twentY-two
last week. He had pneumonia Last summer hc
slept ont there ia the yard" pointing to The board
cover of the CELLAR space, and caught coiu' he ID
In q better place pow" .
When infectious disease occurs IN tenement
house all the inmates are liable 10 DC attackeu
Fioht cases of measles have been known III one
buyldng which contained only eight faIniiles. Inc
known tendency Of cOntagion 10 spread III snen
buildings makes it necessary to exclude inc cni
in lac attending
schools when dipatherla, measles or Scailhtd1a
breaks out THIS " an unayoidabie hardsnip me
disease is prevented from spreading ~ the schools
but the other chiid en- are compelled 90 remain
IL the house and thus exposed 10 lntccti0n II
large building where there may be tnirsy or iorty
Children this regulation of the Board oi ffcaitA Is
n great ANNOYANCE. In East Seycnteenth.st Is a
lar ge and clean looking tenemen-house OF the pet
Ter class, where the halls are swept every oat1f- i
Here family were nearly decInated by typhoid
fever The father died, q boy Was sont 70 the
hosptal and the mother and six children all con
tTae;ed the disease They occupied the tlnrd floor
and their sickness was ascribed TO the fou vauits
In the yard. Over one hundred persons We're eA-
posed 10 the same influence and auothcr case OF
typhoid occurred by. This well iliu1ra'es Inc
nossIbiltIes of conveying disease in q large tene-
mcDt-houSe.
CHILDREN IN rrHEMENFs.
Every observer ia struck by che number of hardy
and healthy looking children in The tenement re-
g,on. but these arc The survivors who have passed
among children are chiefly under oae year of age
or between one aud two. A child that has reached
it's fifth year must possess q tough constitution
The benefits also of outdoor exercise aud going to
school are evident The smaller children who an
kaot indoors on account Of the weather or because
tbcre Is no one to look nftsr them. as Tuio ar
thin. pae and peaked. The must vigorous ant
wel-deyclopea mother may have feeble, siunteo
child When seen at distance from across q
street or court their paiId faces make whit
biotch on the dinCy wIndOw paDos. Inc eaoies III
arms are worst OF all, immature puc.fea aim wan
or II well grown, their watery eyes and constani
suufing OF chronic coughs show that they are MOI
well. Many have prcinaturely aSea look anu al
unnaturaly subdued manner. Oilers are resblos'
aud frctfui. IL is 20 v,cet with merry, crow
ing baby, except among he better class oil people
In the Batter street iioms IN breoklyn, whre
the children OF the poor are cared for, IL Us IT,
marked that such children seem TO be marcy an
can endure exposure. but they QUICKLY yloid u
eeyne slcknegs, sucn scar ct fever 1T whOopilP
courh IL one III u family taien The others Ill
yarabIy contract the disease, w.Iile tine aiieg re-
suts are felt more severely than by her chiidreb
Duriny q s,nglc year thirty cases Of neasies oc-
curr,,d an tbis institution and seven eadcd fatally
I'm the Five Points House OF Industry IN one yeaI
I 0o1 cases of sok ue-s occurred among go chit
dien, including 13 cases OF typn9'd iesei' 90 ~
measles y of pneumonia and 24o Of the various
TO, ms oi ophtalmia. The rpirt OF Inc pnysic.;i
in charge saws: 1--WE have had ihe usiai cases O
eve and skin diseases which are always wti ns.
aud adds that many OF the children nave hcreu
Arc O holp to fatal scknesses wacn o1cr atiaonoo.
There were on.y three deaths during tnat yoaI ant
for fftsep years no case Of smallpox has occurreo
In the iustitutiop. ycrthsiess, this aree sick
1ndicates the low yituiity Of the children ard th'
Sxteut To which they are exposed 10 inicction.
Tn avurUee Weitht Of ppw~h0ru lnfalss NJ tef
WGman's InAsinsxy in this city u only i've pounds