Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-18

This was suburban district the ground
| very rolling. with abrupt changes In level
ranging from tide water to nearly $40 feet
above.
The greater part Of this population was
found in the vicinity of Boundary street
and 9TH street road and in small VILLAGES. OF
which Mount Pleasant, Tenleytown, Bright
wood. Brookland. Ivy City and Eckington
were the largest.
The Geological park, the National SOL
diers Home and the principal cemeteries
of the city were in this district.
The death rates in this district, exclusive
White I503; colored, 2I6s; under s wears
white, 1873; colored. ss.27 malarial fever.
20.50; diphtheria and Group. 57.5e; diarrhesi
diseases. 1851; typhoid fever. x.ss; con-
In the death rates given per 1000 of pop-
ulatiou the deaths occurring in the Soldiers
Home have been excluded. In the rates
for the specified causes per 100 600 of NOM
ulation these deaths have been Included
The population of the Soldiers Home could
not be separated from the rest of the dis
trict
The total death rates per 1000 of popula.
ton, both white and colored. in this dis
trict were low. the greatest falling on being
In the colored rate and the same is true OF
the death rates under years of age.
| The number OF deaths due to malarial fever
was about half the usual proportion and q
little over half for typhoid fever. All OF the
other causes also showed a falling of IN
causes.
| Sanitary District No. IN.
All that part of the District OF Columbia
lying east and south of the Eastern branch
| OF the Potomac river
Area, S6oe acres; popula s.e76; whites,
S'4o2; colored, S,57i; number OF persons to
each acre of total area, O.ss.
This was also a suburban district of the
same general characteristics as to topog-
rapny as district No. Is. except that the
maximum altitude was not 50 great
| The Government Insane Asylum was To-
Gated in this district
The death rates in this district, exclusive
on stiiipirths, were as follows: Total-white,
o. 90 colored; ga; under years-white.
$500; colored. l27.50; malarial fever 100 %.
diphtheria and Group, 40l2; diarrheal dis,
| ton, 497 40.
The population Of the insane asylum could
not be separated from the rest Of the dis
I tr1ct In the rates per 1000 of popula ton
| the deaths in this institution were excluded
hence these rates are stated as a little
| lower than they really probably were In
| the rates per 10000 of population the num-
| per OF deaths occurring in the ASYLUM
from the causes specified are included
For the whites the total death rate was
J the lowest of any in the District and for
the white children under five years of age
the rate was also much below the average.
The rate for the total colored population
| was about the same as the average, but
that for the colored children under five
years OF age was considerably lower than
| usual
| The number OF deaths due TO malarial
fever in this district was more than twice
as great as the average number from this
cause. Diarrheal diseases and consumption
produced much more than the average num-
Der of deaths, and diphtheria ami Group
and typhoid fever each much less than the
| average.
Altitude and Death Rates.
Other interesting tables show the rela-
lions between altitude and death rates IN
the two cities. The following Is a recapitu-
lation of the figures relating TO Washington.
1t gives the average annual death rates,
exclusive OF stillborn. Turing the six-yesr
period per 1000 Of mean population, with
distinction of color and Of those under five
years of age: also the average annual death
rates per 10000 Of mean population due 20