The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-21
NEW YORK VITAL STATISTICS.
How Many Were Born, Died, Married
What Was Consumed.

What Was Consumed.
New York sun.
For the first time In fifteen years the
board of health has issued an annual re-
port Hitherto its reports have been quar-
terry, but recently President Wilson de-
clded that more accurate idea OF the city'5
health statistics would be oh aimed from
yearly statement The report just issued
Tor the year 1889 contains great deal Oh
interesting information, and some that VIII
be surprising to the average citizen.
The sanitary bureau reports 1888, S75 in
spections, &c. sp5 causes of complaint re-
turned and 1888 complaints from citi-
gems. TIE mix inspections numbered a.
51l, and $40 specimens were examined.
0nly Y complaints resulted, Six thou
sand two hundred and eighty-four quarts
OF adultersted milk were destroyed. how
ever, and 323 per ons were arrested. o
these 300 were held IN bail Tor examination
or trial, anu SO, $50 was collected in lnes.
Tue fruit and food inspectors had a
great deal of work. They made 1877 com
plants as the result OF a3.9 insp cp0ns,
and seized and condemned 1495. $50
pounds OF fruit and food. including: Ba-
nanas. 49,, 400 pounds; peaches, 46 $50
pouns; oranges, IL 935 pounds; pears,
esVSe foHidos abfiSes plic-
apples, SIC. 405 pounds; grapes. g. las
pounds. cherries, 230 pounds; lemons,
6,6o0 pounds; melons, 1880 pounds;
ONIONS, $4,000 pounds; assorted vegetables,
09,335 pounds; canned goods, ,325 pounds;
cheese. 1000 pounds.
the meat and fish inspectors seized
1868, 2SS pounds OF meat ana fish, of which
the latter contributed 1853 30S pounds, and
the rest was made up o. Iii. l62 pounds OF
haa OfR ~ al rpdc
of mutton, only 10 955 pounds of pork.
1850 pounds Of poultry, 80 pounds Of
venison, 30 45S pounds of rabbits, 1858
pounds of hams and 20 pounds of satis-
age. of the orders given by the
sanitary bureau, l0.7l8 were COM
piled with, and l4,6z9 were not.
Seventeen thousand tive hundred
and nine inspections of tenement
apartments were made for the purpose of
detecting overcro ding. and in 698 cases
orders were issued To reduce the number of
occupants in rooms. OF the usual nuisan-
ces ia tene ment houses, such as bad venti-
iation, obstruction OF fire escapes, cess
pools, dangerous or DISTRACTED chimneys,
broken or filthy floors, 1868 were aba ed.
The carcasses OF 6,9i2 horses, 2,462 calves,
49, 65 dogs and cats and 500 sheep were re-
moved from the streets. Twenty-three
thousand three hundred and ffiy-thr ee
cases of contagious disease, including Ala
of typhoid fever. S,S49 OF scarlet fever. 6 443
of measles, 6,4S9 of diphlheria, l2S of
cerehro-spinai meningitis, OF smallpox, q
of varice,ia and ] OF pertussis were re-
ported, and 1922 deaths ensued. There
were 26,3S6 first vaccinations and 4S.206
persons were re-yaccinatsd. The disiaiect-
ing corps fumigated &c. 245 and disinfected
IS 452 rooms. One hundred and elghty-two
miles of subway cuts and trenches were
disintected. From the sale of bovine vac
cine virus $2.453.2 was received. The
summer corps visited 26i $50 persons and
prescribed for 14s
he bureau OF vital statistics received
Ia. 400 marriage certificate. for entry.
There were 81 52T births and SO $50 deaths
reported. Only 46i negroes We're reported
as having married. OF the deaths reported
% 42S occurred in tenement houses. 1881
i'll institutions, sos in dwellings contain
ing less than three families, 800 in hotels
and boarding houses, and 65S dnclassified.
The greatest number OF deas hs were due TO
phthisiS, with pneumonia second in the
list. In spite of the talS about the preva-
lence of general paresis. only 29s deaths
ale attributed TO it; 230 persons died in de-
lirium tremeEs, ii OF opium poisoning, 33
by illuminating gas, 47 by other poisons,
PA by drowning. 50 on railroads. 81 were
rln over, IS were Sutfocated pa
committed suicide, AZ we're dubbed
TO death, o were stabbed, II were shot,
died of trichinosis and 5 were judiciallv
hanged. The greatest mortality occurred
during the week ending July Is, which COR
responds to the present one. The mean
temperature during that week was 1872 de-
grees. The greatest number of deaths oc-
Cured in the Nineteenth ward. Ireland
contributed most 10 the death record, the
United States next. Germany a close third.
Eighty-five Germans, &c native Americans.
Is Irishmen Frenchnen, IL Hungarians.
s Englishmen and 10 unknown persons
committed suicide. There were nearly
five times as many male as female suicides.
Ten persons died at an age exceeding 100
wears, and five had just covered century.
Nine of these centenarians were widows.
and the oldest was Ito. She was the ONLY
coored person in the list. Out OF SO. $50
bodies So, 96i were buried outside the CITY
limits.
The report is mass of figures carefully
arranged. Ii IS bound in blue pasteboard.