New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-20
MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR.
SCHOOLS. health AND THE CITY
RECORD"
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY HIS ADMINISTRATOR
TO INCREASE THE ACCOMMODATIONS

FOR CHILDREN
Mayor Strong sent another message to the Boar
of Aldermen yesterday. having decided. instead o
one long message. to call the attention OF the city
legislature to matters of Importance In weekly
communications. The Mayor yesterday discusse
the questions which the Board OF Education hav
had grappie with In the last year. the work o
the Health Department and The city RECORD.
The Mayor began by saying
The last year has been fruitful OF more discus
sion regarding the school system in THIS city tnai
any previous year in our history. Not oniy MAJ
there been radical change In the school raw Pu
school children and the ability of the city 10 NEE
The requirements OF an % sSe nmblis
Prints and by the citizens generally. III Is a iac !
sufcient and proper school accommodation in this
city. II is fact that there Is not now suc'i 81
accommodation as the standing OF New-York city
and the character of it's population demand II Is
fact that any effort has been iei , unna d
10 meet all the requirements Of this great mu'
nicpaIy that the needs of Of school oIe cS
dren as many who serve the city only as c''''oS
would have the public in the matter
Of the present condition OF our pupn' ss n,.,
cencv OF their number The present conditions
are the result Of lack OF proper ac''o" io' mum
NV present endeavor is to place before your hon
orable body. and thus before the pupnC dit,on Of
afars that no one may properly err In his Jug s
ment and hat no one may properly S hesn given TO
@ mhI, aprhonIs or that proper effort Is not be-
ing made to meet S all the isereore list Of the
school buildings now In course on cH.s Of class
r reonn IN esrh and the time when the schools VII
he opened adding that these sSno''S WIZ
accommodations for l'?'S p"P"s'
NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
,-,aer Tho head Of new school buildings. the
Mayor mentions in detail e,gm' "e' =. aomrss
buildings and two buildings III couise
q, erection three other school buildings io'
the erection of which contracts nave zee"
made plans under consideration 10
school buildings and four anneA puho''sS' Nc"
Sor additions acquired in by contemplation pro,
cee,iings twentyeght sites which me "m nro
ceedings and thirteen additional sites when me
Board OF Education has submitted 10 'ne ne ome of
hon d TS@nHf under which the Hoard OF Educa,on
has i no or at Diver
Catharine SITS. "On May To- los!, ne I'm Io.ara IN
faxnr Of acquiring the above mentioned site they
approved of this recommendation the SAM ann ' a;
tn nnod and the remainder OF 1894 and all Of 1895
passed by with no report from ,h et hn board Of
Educa,ion the Legislature passed an act which
became law Nay Is 1897 compe demS nTonerty
for school purposes report within SIX months iS,
after their S 10 receive or as such
ers This law applies to all sites and %i prove se, Ul
Ave months after the Board had decided upon the
Nc cessty for the aforementioned site. notice was
viii cover about eight city lots and VII pr9pa =.
be the largest schoohouse In the world ana IL 70
be built in fourteen months as sno"" ny '"e
The Mayor then presents a brief summary; SHOW
ing the school population an9 enrolment vi puP'''
for the years 1894. 1895 and 1926:
school. POPULATION.
, 49,; 1"ly g. g. 70 TO $500
July 81 10 '''""
ENROLMENT.
1894 saS
The Mayor goes on TO say
From, the first list of buildings submitted, includ
ing two completed in the monh OF Dec ,S in
!, was shown that school buildings were nearing
completion furnishing accommoaaS,noms cn oo
The number of buildings In course o! ,j
and provisions being made for new sites. IL wN QUIZ
nearly double the amount of work has been done
during the last Two years than durlde any
period of time TO meet the inc:easeo requirement.
Of the ctys school population
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
TIL. Mayor notices the work OF the Health De-
partment for 1896 which he asserts has been I'M
usually important He says in part:
TIL. active and vigorous enforcement Of the san
,tarv laws governing this city Is Indispensable 10
the health and welfare OF 's pepp'e an nsnsrt
ment is necessary 10 secure compliance WIN resu,
lations which are more or Tess oa nd nnnres.ivs
Resistance 20 health laws rules and regulations Is
now of infrequent occurrence and m me smaI and
for sanitary improvements. issued by the Health |
Department during the last veal mumn Nth o'e
As appears from the following table the death
rate has largely and gradually decrease1 since ,ne
orea OF the Board of Health in 1856 ana the
cath rate for 1896 the lowest in the history OF
the city. being 2i.5i per thousand
s6s Death ............'...'.' S S.yi