The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
MONTGOMERY HEALTHIEST
 OF ALL SOUTHERN CITIES
CllyS Death Rate is Only l247, the Lowest Figures Given from Northern Cities Interesting Report
 of the Sanitary Department.

1 eral inirmatries and hospitals are locat l ed in this city. in which patients are re. 1 ceived from other localities. Deaths oe 1 curing at such institutions are recorded l against this city. A separation of resi-
 dent and nonresident deaths would ma terially lessen our mortality scale. Vital Statistics. l Three hundred and ninety-nine deaths | occurred within the city limits during the past twelve months. White males, 9S;
 white females. 79 negro males. 1o9; negro | females. 113; total whites, TIT; negroes, | 222. l The ages of decedents were as follows: Under year. 45; from to 5, 3s: to 10, 8; | 10 to 20, 30; 20 to 30. 55; 30 to 40, 50; 40 to | 50, fl: 50 to 50, 4S; 60 to 70, 42; 70 to 80, | 2s; 80 to 90, Il; 90 to 100. 2. Total, 399. l Civil condition of descendants: Single, | 175; married, 133; widowed, SS; divorced, | 1; unknown, 2.
 Deaths by months: October 9; Mo- vember, B; December. 37; January, 35; February, 36; March, 29; April, 33; May, Il; June, 36; July, 40; August, 30; Sep tenber. 32; total, 399.
 Deaths by wards: Ward 1. B; Ward 2,
 6S: Ward 3. 45: Ward 1, 133; Ward 5. 7O; i Ward, 6, 45.
 The number of births recorded during | past year was 571. The excess of births over deaths were 72. Of the children born 3T were white and PA negroes; white males, 1S2; white females, 145; negro males, 131; negro females, 113. Five hun | dred and thirty-one were of legitimate birth and forty, four white and thirty six negroes, were illegitimate. In twelve
 instances twins were born, five pair of white and seven pair of colored children Nativity of parents, fathers, natives of United States. including negroes, 554; for eigners, IT,, mothers, natives of United States. including negroes, 556; foreigners, 15.
 Meat and Milk Inspection. Animals were offered for slaughter. at Union Slaughter House, as follows:
 Reeves, s.67S; calves, 1851; hogs, 2,s49;
 sheep, 1,414; goats, 3S6; a total of 14.629. The following were rejected on ante- mortem examination for causes stated: Beef. crippled, I; beef, mango, 2; beef,
 pink-eye, 3; beeves, too poor for human food, 234; beeves for other causes, Il;
 calves, too poor for human food, '; hogs,
 boars, 4; sheep, crippled. l. goats too poor
 etc. 6, total number rejected on hoof.
 26e. Number allowed to be slaughtered,
 14.2so
 On post-mortem inspection there were
 condemned and tanked. F beeves; 3 | calves; 61 hogs; sheep; 150 beef livers; l.736 hog livers: 755 pounds of bruised meat; and 200 pounds of sausage, for dis
 eases of various kinds, or being spoiled. | In all, 5,419 pounds of meats were con- l demned and tanked.
 | Dressed meats. and fresh meats in boxes. were inspected as follows : From | the West: Meat in boxes, 1,748; beeves I NA- eha ck. hOor oAol
 3S10.
 From the country: beeves 102; sheep. 2S;
 calves. 12; goats, SS; hogs. 314; total from
 country, 494 Milk Inspection. l Montgomery was one of the first towns | in the South to adopt stringent laws gov- | erning the traffic in this most important | of food products. The benefit derived | from the inspection system may be sum- | med up as, rich milk, purer milk, clean l Illness in milking and of the handling of
 milk, healthier cattle and a general im- provement of sanitary conditions at the
 several dairies. The superior quality of
 the milk now supplied consumers Is evil
 denced by the high percentage of butter
 fat, the general average for year being
 433 per cent. an increase over previous
 year of .08 per cent.
 All dairies supplying milk to the city
 have been regularly and systematically
 inspected. Dairymen, as a rule, appear
 well disposed and cheerfully carry out the orders and suggestions of the inspector. Barns and dairy rooms were generally
 found in fairly good sanitary condition. and where they were not warning was
 sufficient to have the place properly at necessary to have a warrant issued. In
 this case the recorder imposed fine of | $S on the offender.
 The average per centum of butter fat | of the several dairies is shown as follows: l Berjar 409 Blunt, 4.45; Brooks, 4.25; | Cloud, 4.66; Davis. AT; Fleming. 40; Hawes & Son, 4.4s Hughes. 4.55; Jersey Dairy Company, 4.s1; Lakewood Dairy,
 AT; Montgomery Dairy Company. S.A;
 Rayburn dairy, 4.29; Reese. 4.33; Scott. | 4.60; Walden, 4.2S; Warner, 4.25; Will l Hams 4,1.
 Collection of Garbage, Etc. | The sanitary inspector with six double
 wagons and three carts, has moved from | the several wards of the city Il BPS tons of garbage and 306S small animals and fowls. Seven and one-half tons of dis infectant were made and distributed free to citizens applying for some. Four bar rels of liquid disinfectant and one barrel of crude carbolic acid were purchased and used. Loads or garbage removed Dy wards, as follows: Ward 1. 2ol7 Ward ?. 2.21O; Ward 3. 2.277; Ward 4, 2,31O; Ward
 5, 2,176; Ward 6, 2.336; business center S.
 492: total 1885 loads
 The sanitary police inspected, during past twelve months, 45, TT premises. Of
 this number 1862 were ordered re-inspect-
 ed, making a total of 53.739 inspections
 and reinspections. Eleven white persons
 and thirty-six negroes were arrested. at
 instance of this department, for viola
 ton of sanitary ordinances.
 One hundred and seventy-seven cases of
 smallpox were treated at the emergency
 hospital Sixty-eight cases of scarlet
 fever and nine eases of diphtheria were
 reported.
 There were fumigated and cleansed for
 contagious and infectious diseases the
 following number of premises: For
 smallpox, 1O7 scarlet fever, 103; diphthe-
 ria, 8: typhoid fever, 1; tuberculosis. IS;
 contagious ophthalamia, 1; chickenpox H.
 county jail, 3; county court house, l.;
 Plant hospital building, l; emergency hos
 pitaI, 8: public school buildings, 8; con-
 tinued sickness, 2; Louisville and Nash
 vile cabose, No. 67, 1; hacks, 5; total
 punnher of fumisations PIP.