Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-02
THE cirT DEPARrM ENrs.
Interesting Statistics of Last Month and tn,
Past Year.

| iHttrebInE otltistlcs nI tsuSt month ana tnt
Past Year.
During December there were 2S4 ar.
rests, classified as follows: Assault and
battery, l2; assault with intent tc
commit murder, d: assault on an officer,
breaking into store, /; burglary,
2; carrying concealed weapons, 8
cruelty to animals, 2; corner lounging,
contempt OF court, 8; drunk, 55
drunk and disorderly, "a; disorderly
conduct, A drunk and exposing person,
3; committing nuisance, Ii exposing
person, 3 escaped from Delaware In
dustial School, L; embezzlement, l
horse stealing, /; held for Pennsyl-
vania authorities, 4 highway robbery,
2; harboring escaped prisoner, 9; home
less child, /; insane, 4; incorrigible,
/; runaway boy, ! rape, L; larceny.
| 81; murder, l.; posting obscene pic
lures, /; patients, %; selling liquor
| without license, selling liquor to
minors, |; trespass, 10; using female
| child under lS for immoral purposes,
/; violating city ordinance, g.; vagrancy,
d; witnesses, To-
| The number of arrests during 1895
was g. 2s5, as against 3, l7S during 1894.
BY months the arrests were as follows
January, 15s; February, 206; March,
243; April, 235; May, 2s6; June. 37i
July, 2so; August, 36i; September,
329; October, 27o; November. 257; De-
cember, 28l.
There we're /, 194 deaths last year, 80
more than in 1894. In the territory
recently admitted TO tho city there were
40 deaths. During every month, ex-
cept July and August, there was a
suicide.
There we're AL white and 81 colored
marriages, total Of 49S, as compared
with 442 in 1891.
The total number of births during
the year was |, 3S2, as against 1,4S0
during 1894
The deaths were classified as follows
White, 974; coiored, 220; males, 597 !;
females, 597; adults. 6l0; minors. 5S4 I;
native, l,05l foreign, LAB; coroner g
cases, OIL; bodies brought here, 157 I;
sent away, 1873; passed through city,
30. Totals, zymotic diseases, Ill, as
compared with l75 in 1894; from con-
sumption, 1877; suicides, II; accident,
30; typhoid fover, 25; diphtheria. l2.
The births were classified as follows
White males, 67S; females, 5S7; total,
white, l, 265. Colored males, Sc; females,
81; total, lit.
During the year l47 building lines
were drawn, as follows: January, 81;
February, l March 4; April, 43; May.
%; June, "a; July, 10; August l5 /;
Septemher,S; October, II; November, l ;
December, II.
The annual statement of the Water
Department shows receipts of Sl60,
49,. "a, and surplus Of SIS, 407. 90. The
receipts were as follows: Miscelane-
tious, 81, 297. 81 +; meters, S525 interest,
s933. 67; meter rents. s83, l63. so; penal.
ties. 81, 5J2. 40; non meter renta, s117,-
90l.7 72. The expenditures were as fol-
lows: Machinery. SIG, 272. 81; distribu-
tion, sls, 662. 02; extensions, $780,
239 81; salaries, 81, 100. 04; incidentals
81 0G5. 80; interest $S, 405; Cool Spring
Park maintenance, S773.71; Cool
Spring Park, si3 81; filter maintenance,
S771, 62: meters. 81, So; Rodney
tower, S24l. 20; filter, 50, 3,6l9 Is.
The following is the fire record for
December: December 9Th, box II, A. 80
p. m. false alarm; December 10th,
S. 30 am, box "a, Is. Donahoe, No. Al
West Front street; slight loss. Decent
ber 18th, 5. Ii p m., box II, Mitchell
Il Thomas morocco factory; loss, about
$50, 600. December 18th, II. % a. M,
box ., fire in Leafs mills; loss small.
December 18th, 2. 10 p M. = box So, store
house and stable belonging to j. Black
on East Twelfth street. December
18th, 10 p. m., still alarm fire at No. 503
Walnut street December Gath, 10 a. M,
box %, house of DIR. j. Paul Lnkens, No.
OIL Washington street. December 25th.
l. 10 a. M, box 35, Thomas Drein &
Sons works, Water and Tatnall streets
loss, $40, 600. 7.55. p. M, box 2S, house
of j. I. Clark, No. 1908 Monroe street.
December 9th, a. M, box 90, fire at
No. 209 Market street; loss, 50. 500.
8. 81 p. M, box SO, house of James q.
Morrison, Seventh avenue and Anchor
age street: loss, 81, 200. December 2Sth.
8, 45 a.. M, box 36, same as previous
night.
In the year there were 65 general and
10 still alarms recorded. The general
alarms were divided as follows: Janu-
ary. 8; February, 4; March, 4; April,
a; May, 3; June, S; July, 8; August,
8; September, 3; October, 3; Novem-
ber, 8; December, IL. There was one
still alarm in each OF the first four
months, and three each in May and
june.