The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-06
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Of Health Officer Garrison
Showing What At, Done
AND WHAT TWAS LEFT UNDONE

In This City In tho Year 1881. In
I. Sanitary y..CothparIsons Made,
With *i,e=SRnc Work Done IN an
/, ID. 1sss..i.cmctlics Suggested.
4 II Section u OF the. ordinance entitled
d "Health Officer and Registration o
Deaths and Burials, provides that til,
Health Officer shall in the first week o
January Of each year prepare and pub
llsh one time in each daily nowspape
IN the city a condensed tabular state
ment, compiled. from the several month
ly statements Of the preceding year, to
gether with such remarks as no shal
deem pertinent and proper. a
l therefore, US the law requires, submit
the following report. The rate Of death,
| III 1900 OF population was 1872 for the
year, which, considering the feariully
unsanitary condition OF the city, Is q
very low one.S' The number Of deaths
In the months OF October and November
were unusually small, being only SO and
SO respectively, while the number In De-
cember was IS. 4 AS will be seen by the
mortuary table, the nu mbcr Of deaths
were about equally distributed among
the several wards except In tho Eighth,
where the number was moro than double
that In any other ward. In every 70.
port issued by me l have, had occasion
to call attention to the excessive death
rate In that ward. Month after month
and yras alter year, 1t IN tho . .,i,c. The
continuation SOt such Il heavy death rate
appeals strongly for better sanitary con.
ditions for that long suffering portion Of
the city. a proper grade should be es-
tabllshed from the hill to the river. The
effect Of proper drainage, Is seen on
those streets where grade hns been es.
tablished i aud the streets have been
paved. Before Eotf streetsouth Of Thirty
third was paved, the cutters were tiled
with stagnant water and filth, but after
1t was graded and paved there was no
more trouble on that score, and now 1t
Is one Of the cleanest streets in the city.
Let other portions of the ward be 80 I'M
proved and there will be no heavier
death rate in that portion OF the city
than in any other. ! Another drawbacx
TO keeping the ward clean is the long
distance to the cremutory, and the great
cost OF removing substances to it. F,l7-3s
VALUE oy HUMAN LIVE; IN DOLLARS AND
Il CENTS. !it h, ~! 4
It has often been asserted TINT all ad-
vances in civilization are founded upon
self.interest rather than upon philan-
thropicaI principles, and d careful obscr.
walton OF human nature coroborates this
view AZ regards the taxpayer and his
legislative representative. The practical
business man gives freely when called
upon when he can SEQ that ! 1t ayerts
danger, or relieves suffering. But the
sturdy citizsn whose robust health
places him above danger from epidemic
disease will talk largely about the cost
OF sanitary measures III he be in Coun-
cil) and question the necessity for him
to give OF the funds Of which he is the
custodian, to prevent disease, while no
may contribute freely from his Gown
purse to- those already suffering from
misfortune or disease. This lis not be-
cause he does not want to Edo right but
because he, does not know how. The
swell nn,snn j. ~ siom f =, - ,, ua'e ~,
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an., ; ~ w. da,,h ,' 20 ',,Vov, no ~.
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mt y;ewea rom = nernn;a S,v : a;Mt tth
will be seen 10 mean in CITY OF $4,000
inhabitants a saving Of IS lives, ind this
on 4 basis Of 81, 900 for productive value
Of life means So, oo0: Compare the
death rates for the months Of November
anu December, looS, Whlch were and
20 per i, 900, respectively. 81 The rate for
| fha }afiaf ninftt1I saxc.4afla4 That S,of Tia
fornnr III ofora, rnr.aSa rs a1s 'J,,tts
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