The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-07
CARBONDALE.
ANNUAL REPORT.
What the Much Talked-of Board OF
Health Accomplished in 1898.


The following annual report Of the
board of health was submitted to select
council at it's regular meeting last
evening:
10 the Honorable. the Select aud COM
mon Councils of thc city of Carbondalc.
Gentlemen: | respectively submit the
appended report of the affairs OF me
board Of health for the year 1875:
For reasons, with which YOU are IL
ready acquainted, the board was leil
without ~ quorum on the first Monday "l
last April since which time no meetings
have been held. The administration
thought it advisable to continue the
payment of the officers salaries and the
officers in turn have executed the routine
work as in former years. To the pest 81
their ability.
The filing of death, birth aud marriage
reports has suffered no interruption ana
there will consequently u" no omissions
in the records of tho registration depart
ment.
The undertakers Of the city-with on"
exception-haVe filed willingly aud
promptly certificates of deaths and nave
lived up to the requirements of the local
rules and STATE law in every detail. This
statement deserves emphasis i'm view Of
the fact that certain newspapers have
placed them, as well as the officers r
the board. before the public in faisa
light.
HEALTH or TIE CITY.
The health of the city has not been as
good within the past five years as II was
in 1895 The deaths from all causes num-
bered only 175 which. based on a popua-
ton Of 17OoO. gives us death rate per
1000 of 10 5-17. In 1897 it was Is ~ based
on "A population of 1SOW. The basis was
lowered in accordance with a decrease IN
the number of registered voters.
There was nothing in the nature Of an
epidemic. According 10 Sanitary Police
man Barrett's report there were IL new
cases of diphtheria ana II Cpses Of scarlet
fever, as against IA and respectively
in 1897. Measles cases number $50 AM
typhoid fever rs.
Houses placarded 3lS houses fumi-
gated %; visits to infected houses, I25
plumbing jobs inspected. "a; nuisanc"s
complained Of 392; nuisanCcS abated. Isl
school permits issued. 2S3; CarCasses dis
posed of, dogs. 81: hogs, I: cows ,.
WATER SUPPLY IN DANGER.
Last October the water supply of the
Fallbrook and Newton company was Ii
danger of typhoid infection. Hundreds
of homes of this city obtain water fol
domestic purposes from that source ant
their escape from the deadly fever Is
due largely to the vigilance of the sani
tary policeman
There We're four cases of typhoid icNcI
in the family of Chauncey LamoreHuN
who resides i'm Fen township about three
miles from this city and only a short dis
tancc above a stream which is one o
the feeders of the Fallbrook reservoir
In the natural course of events the sew
age of that infected house would haN,
contaminated the stream and hundreds
of deaths might have resulted. The con
ditions are almost parallel to those cN
listing near Plymouth some years ag'
which caused one of the most horrible
cpidemiCS on record. However. the SAM
tury policeman instituted some rigid rule
which resulted in the destruction by fir
of all infectious matter. lie made IRE
quent visits to the home and i'm his w1rl
had the valuable cooperation of tn
,ompany's officials.
The total receipts of the seCretarH's Of
flee for the year-derived from the iHtt +
ment of non. residents in city Cemeterc
and from transcripts and pig permits
amounted to $3.50.
e. r. Mum. Secretary.