The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-27

DR.. w. P. Carr, the Coroner of the Dis
trict. yesterday submitted % the Commits
| sioners his annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 50, 1860. He informs the Com
missioneTs that the total number of deaths
| investigated by the Coroner during tde
! period covered by the report was 775, OF
which 40G were from natural cause, 2C6
were violent deaths, and 163 were still
births.
DR.. Carr states that the number of deaths
| from natural causes was Acc, classified as
follows: Abortion, accidental, 2; aroplexy
So; alcoholism. 3; appendicitis, /; athero-
ma, 6; bronchitis. 3; cancer, 2; congenital
! debility. 80; cirrhosis of liver, /; diph-
| liberia, 9; dysentery, .; fbroma uteri. /;
gastric ulcer, 1; castro enteritis, So; heart
disease, &c; heat stroke, 3; hemorrhage
from umblical cord, 2; icterus neona. Drum,
4; infantile convu'sions, s; intussGs option,
2; influenza, 3; locomotor ataxia, /; malar-
ia, 3; measles, /; meningitis (cerebraD, 2;
nephritis, 10; patent foramen ovule, c; post
portal hemoTrhage, /; pleurisy, l; pneu-
monia, Al; premature birth. 9; rachitis, .;
rupture pulmonary vessel, l; syphilis, 2;
isnile debility, .; tetanus, 2; tonsiIitis. 1
typhoid fever, 2; tuberculosis, Az vomiting
OF pregnancy, I; unknown, 3.
The number of accidental and violent
deaths investigated by the Coroner was
2O6. OF these Ill resulted from accidental
injuries by falling, by steam or street
railways, by electricity by burns or
drowning. From accidental poisoning
there we're "A deaths, the suicides were
SO. and deaths as the result of crime were
Il. These deaths are classified as follows:
Accidental injuries-Falls etc. 81; steam
railway accidents in the District of Co
lumbia, II; steam railway accidents not In
the District OF Columbia, 4; street railway
accidents in the District of Columbia. G:
street railway accidents not in the District
q Columbia, /; electric shock, /; acct
dental burns, SO; accidental drowning %.
Total III.
Accidental poisoning-By Illuminating
gas. 6; by opium, T. by carbolic acid. 2;
by ehloroforn, /; by ptomaines, l. Total,
Il.
Suicides-By gunshot wounds. 7. by in
haling gas, 6; by carbolic acid, 6; hangsns,
4; by cutting throat, 3: by opium poison
ing. 2; by ehloroform. /; by jumping from
window, / Total, 80
Homicides, Is; accidental homicide. 1:
criminal abortion, /; shot in Philippine
war 1; legal hanging. 3. Total. 81.
The Coroner states that the number Of
autopsies performed by his office was II.
and of these IS were United States crimi-
nal cases and SO we're District cases. Dur
ing the year 90 inquests were held ana 23S
bodies were cared for in the morgue. DR..
Carr calls attention TO the fact that the
subject OF providing the District with q
new morgue was considered at some
length in his report of last year He now
adds that the need of suitable morgue
is so self-eyident as to require no demon
stration. The report continues.
The present morgue is sufficiently con-
venient for the Coroner and his deputy;
but the fact has long been recognized, by
the Commissioners OF the District of CO.
lumbia and By the District Committee In
Congress, that it is hardly a decent place
for respectable corpses and far from be-
ing suitable morgue for a city like Wash
ington. Our Congressional Committee has
promised new building in the near future
and l respectfully recommend that the
honorable Commissioners keep the mat
ter before them"
The Coroner states that the expenses of |
his Office for the period covered by the |
report were as follows: Salary of Coroner. |
$3.50; making autopsies $780, taking tes-
timony. $3.50; Jurors fees, 1929; livery. I!
s2i0; horseshoeing, 50; ice for morgue, !
S43.SS; supplies and repairs for morgue, |
s36.55; stationery, etc, $3.50. Total, |
s2.917.93
In conclusion the Coroner submits his |
estimates for the requirements Of the Office |
for the fiscal year beginning July l. 1901, |
as follows: For salary of Coroner. 81, 500; |
for recording testimony. $500 for jurors
fees, $40; for making autOpsies. $500; for
livery. $40; for ice and supplies for
moTgua. 500; for photographing unidentl-
fed bodies, 500. Total s., 600