The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-04

The total mortality of So shows death rate
ior the month OF 1:125 per 900. The mortality
Third, 8; Fourth. 4; Fifth, 10; Sixth, TO- Seventh,
The total number of burial permits issued was
g, as follows: Masonic cemetery, 26; Mount
Pleasant cemetery, IL county cemetery, Z; Cal
vary cemetery, 6: /. o. o. f. cemetery, 9; Jewish
cemetery, |; The number Of shipping permits
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Investigation into the local causcs OF disease
have been made In four cases of scarlet fever,
one OF diphtheria and eleven of typhoid fever,
making q total Of sixteen Investigations. From
these diseases there have been q total OF ten
deaths, showing slight increase oyer the pre-
ceding month.
In examining the location of the diseases in
vestigated we find the greatest death rate comes
as the Lake Union district, which has no sewer
age, and derives its water supply from Lake
Union, which must be very unhealfhful water
fhope to make report of the analysis of this
water to your honorable body at the next rcgu-
lar meeting The total number Of cases reported
], typhoid fever is. The total number OF births
during the mouth was "a; 81 males and Is fe-
males, and three still births.
EuIsANcEs.
The following shows nuisances to the number
OF l13. reported during the month:
no sewer connection IS
Filthy privics ...................... q
Garbage and filth Observation-Disclosures. q
c Hannpe pil oYs,i,o~,r.
yau aliaais.
Chinese lanndries rejected ................... 10
was lis. Number Of re-inspections made, 4;
nuisances abated, 65; nuisances in course Of
abatement, 81; number of complaints without
The number OF sewer connections made from
month to month is on the increase, and we noM
find very little trouble. in getting sewer con-
nections.. A well-drained soils one Of the very
first considerations to be observed in the effort
to secure perfect sanitary condition of homes.
AS our population area extends We find il neces-
Liz sewers are laid, then connections of private
sewers herewith is demanded, as well
by the laws OF nature as by those
with the sewer are looked upon hy
those occupying premises as unwarranted
measures, demanding useless expenditures of
rs being over-officious. This feeling has given
way to one of thankfulness when they come to
realize the benefit derived by the improvement
and thew finally come TO think that we are not
such bad fellows after all.
HOUSE SEWERS AND DEFECTIVE PLUMBING
The report of the plumbing inspector shows
the total number of premises inspected to be
forty-eight. OF these 81 were tenement houses,
were stores, were hotels, 10 were laundries
and was a theater.
In eleven old buildings new plumbing was put
in, and ten inspections OF plumbing work in new
buildings made, Appended Is the plumbing in
pectors report: :
CARE OF THE SICK POOR
The system for providing medicines and medi-
cal attendance for the sick poor and the sup
Elementary work OF furnishing those justly en-
titled and deserving with food, has progressed
favorably during the month.
The accompanying table shows number of
patients treated, visits made, Office consultations
had and the amount expended for food aud
medicines.
Patients treated. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "a
Visits made ..............-......... SIS
Office consultations. ......-............... 1913
Cost OF food ..........-.....-..$d Is 90
The total number received into the hospitals
during the month was twenty-four and remain
ing over from last month twenty -four. The
board of public works has let the contract for
the care of the city sick to Providence hospital
fer 95 cents per day. Tho bid OF Grace hospital
let to J. NJ. Long & Co. for IS per cent. off
on prescriptions and 70 per cent. of on drug
gists' sundries.
Following is the report of J. H. Malan,
inspector Of interior plumbing:
There wss but very little plumbing COM
menced in February, and that only in cottages
There were a great many buildings finished
that were begun last fall. Twothirds of these
cottages were connected with the city sewers,
with cesspools, or allow their drainage to run in
the street There are old houses that are not
connected with sewers or cesspoois, and the ten
ants themselves do not know where the sewage
drains 10.
We have inspected the sanitary condition of
row after row of houses where the sinks are
made OF wood, and the absorbance 10 very disa-
greeable to person who has not become accus-
toned TO inhaiing such odor. and find a great
number of these houses that are con-
nected with these sewers have. no trap
under the sink, nor anything that
would prevent the sewer gas from coming
into the houses. Some sinks are connected
with a straight tin pipe leading to the sewer.
ana YOU will find for preventive they use q
wooden plug or q rag over the outlet
/ fud in different parts of the city, where new
sewers have been laid, the largest part of the
people are only too glad to DO away with the old
rriyies and vaults and adopt the patent closets,
which are connected to the sewer from porches
or inside houses.
The bill of ID. A. Creighton for $50 for
salary as sanitary officer for the month of
February was laid on the table for investi-
cation, it not being clear that Creighton
had been regularly appointed. No record
of his appointment, or of the resignation
of his predecessor, Mr.. Leroy, has been
entered on the minutes of the board. 1t
was stated that Creighton had received
his authority to act from the city clerks
Office. The health officer was instructed
to correspond with Leroy and request his
bill of II. f. Phillips for $3.50 for
hack hire for city patients was audited and
c,,t down 10 $50. Twenfy-six dollars of the
amount claimed was for conveying six
members of the INDECENT household of
fourteen living in the shack on Lake
Washington to Providence hospital and
the day nursery.
Bills for Sl07.o5 for drugs; $50 for care