Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-26
TWO VERY HOT DAYS.
YESTERDAY AND SUNDAY cHARAc-
TERlzeD eY INTENSE HEAT.
Man and Beast suffer from the Almost
BIistering Sun Among
Children and Old People.

Sunday and yesterday were DAYS which
will long be remembered by Richmond
residents. Their effects were severe upon
both man and beast, and the best record
of the thermometer register is the solled,
or rather soaked. linens Of unfortunate
pedestrians. This has been an almost
phenomenally hot spell in the old Virginia
capital, and most everywhere else Tor that
matter, and il has produced great discom-
fort among men and women and sickness
and death among infants and very old
people.
fthe weather Of the past two days we're
TO continue long there would be no fore
telling the result.
During the week ending last Saturday
there were "A deaths in the city. OF this
number were from consumption. 3
from cholera-infantum, 2 from typhoid
fever, and from heart-disease.
HARD on INFANTS AND OLD PEOPLE
This hot weather is especially trying on
babies and aged persons. Dr.. Oppen-
himer. President of the Board of Health,
tells q DISPATCH reporter that great many
children die owing TO indiscretion on the
part Of mothers and nurses as 70 the food
given the little ones.
The heat on Sunday evening was so in
tense that very few young children went
20 their accustomed evening haunts. Inc
music of the spraying fountains were not
accorded the usual harmony of prattiing
little tongues and pattering feet, for they
were kept at home in their thin gowns.
Early in the morning OF yesterday the
atmosphere assumed dry and sultry air.
and breezes of all kind held themselves
aloof until evening set IN.
HOW THT THERMOMETER STOOD.
At midday the thermometer in the front
of the DISPATCH building stood at 50.
Three hours later the little red line had
gone two degrees higher. Men and women.
as well as dumb beasts, sweltered, and sew
eral horses fell in the street under pres
sure of the blistering sun-rays. 1t seemed
that there was not breath OF WIND sur,
rug in this entire city from IL A. NJ. until
the crimson rays of the western heavens
fell gently upon the placid James, and at
o'clock last evening the temperature, ac-
cording TO the DIsPATCH's thermometer,
was % degrees above zero.
A southeastern breeze set in shortly
after dark, and Richmond's populace were
made glad The street-cars and parks
were soon filed. and the changes IN the
atmosphere was hailed with JOY. The cars
going to and from Forest-Hlll and the
New-ReservOir Parks we're crowded very
late, and many fingered III these cool
places until near midnight.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS.
The mean temperature for the week end
ing July 2j, 1891, was S6.71 degrees, or
greater by more than degrees than that
OF last week, which was Si.S degrees,
though the mortuary report issued from
the Office of the Board of Health shows ex-
actly the same number of deaths Tor each
of these weeks. The total number OF
visits made by the PHYSICIANS to the poor
last week were 174. The following are e&-
tracts from DR.. OppenhImers report:
Whole number of deaths 44-l3 white
and 26 cOlored.
cause Of Death: Bronchitis, colored;
catarrh, / colOred. cholera infentum, )
white; congestion Of brain, cOlored con
gestion of lungs, l colored; cohc, col
ored consumption, white and 4 col
Ored colvulsions, / colOred; cramps
general / colored; diabetes, l white;
dropsy- colored dysentery, /
white and colored; fever-typhoid, 2
white: fever-malaria. l colored; gastrl-
tis-chronic, ] white; Rastro-enterltis. l
white; hear,s llsease. white and 3 COZ
ored lnanitOn, / white; lniantlclde-
probable, / colored: marasmus, ! white
and colored meningitis. colored; me-
pingitis-spInal, white nephrltls, col
ored; old age, l colored; paralysis, col
ored pneumonia, l colored; teethlns,
white; unknown, 2 cOlOred.
Agcs. i dav to 30, Z coloIcd; l month to
6. 2white and 2 colored; months to u. 4
white; year to 3, white and 3 colored,;
3 years TO 5. colored; ) years TO 10, col
ored 10 years to 20. 2white and cOlored
20 years TO 30, white and coloTed; 80
wears to 40. l white and colored 40 years
10 so, white and 3 coiored; 50 years TO
60, / white and colored 60 years 10 70, 2
colored; 20 years 10 80, white and col
ored unknown, cOlOred.