The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-08
DEATHS IN OCTOBER
MONTHLY REPORT OF CITY sANf-
 TARY DEPARTMENT.
seventy-nve Persons Passed Aw.s h
 MontGomsry and Fcrty-seven !, Babies Bern--Mortsiify 2 ss. ~Rate Is IS.

4 s. seyenty-fye persons. nineteen white and; nftyssix negroes died in Montsom- efyydur,ng october. Basing, the totai population on tne popular estimate, 5o.ooo. the monthly
 report of the city Sanitary Department completed, yesterday by Chief Cierk j. !. sFariey and filed with Mayor carr shows that the death rate for the thir 1 ty-one days was IS per cent.
 | Or the total number of deaths inocto- Der. nineteen were white persons ana | ffty-six negroes. Fourteen were Whlee males and i've white females: twenty
 four were negro males and thirty-t"o negro females. s.--
 given. as the causes of death in tour- 1 teen instances, but in only one case was the patient a white person. Tnir- teen deaths are ascribed to tubercu- losis, two white and eleven negroes. The causes of death as given in the certificates are as follows: Accidents | 9: angina pectoris. |; appendicitis, l; Brigft.s disease. {: bronchitis, 2; diph- theria, 1; entero colitis, 1; cerebral fever. l; malarial fever, 8: typhoid fever, 6; gastritis, 2; heart disease, 2; fleo colitis, i; marasmus, 1: meningitis. | |; myelitis,.1: nephritis. 5; oedema or glottis, 1;fold age 5; paralysis. l; par l turition. i: peritonitis.- 1: pneumonia, G.. septicaemia, 1; tetanus neonatorum' liz tuberculosis. 13; pertussts. |; un-
 known, q: premature and still birth Places of interment--Oakwood Ceme- | tery, .54;,westcotts Cemetery. 6; Con- Iey's Cemetery, Il: lannon's Cemetery,
 1; Wares Cemetery, 1; shipped to
 other cities. 12.
 Civil condition-Single, 37; married 27; widowed, z: unknown, 1.
 Ages of decedents-Under one year | &; from one to five, II; five to ten, 3; | ten to twenty. 5; twenty to thirty. 1s; | thirty to forty, 10; forty to fifty, 6; | fifty to sixty, 4; sixty to seventy, 5; seventy to eighty, 2; eighty to ninety g.; ninety to one hundred, 3.
 Deaths by 'localities-Ward One. g.
 Ward Two. si2: Ward Three, 1; Ward Four, 24;. Ward Five, g; Ward Six 15; Ward Seven. 6.
 Forty-seven births were registered
 during the past month--fourteen white males and ten white females; seven teen negro males and six negro females Births by .wards-ward One, :; Ward Two, [; Ward Three. 8; Ward Four, il
 Ward Five. z; Ward Six. 5; Ward Seven 2. '
 Fourteen cases of diphtheria were reported during the month. of which
 number thirteen were white children
 and one negro child. Eight cases
 were reported from ward one. one from ward two, one from ward three, one
 from ward four. three from ward five and two from ward six.
 naAf@I ~t smallpox as follows: From Ward One 2; Ward Five, ?; Ward Six, 1 Beat 1s 1.
 There were cieansed and fumigated | on account of contagious and infectious diseases the following number of pre- mises: For diphtherie, 15; for small pox, 4; for suspicious sickness, 20; for tuberculosis. 2; for typhoid fever, 1. The sanitary officers inspected 5,s6e premises. written reports were sub
 mitted to the once with the result that
 3S9 places were ordered reinspected
 Two total number of inspections and
 reinspections was 6,268.
 To enforce the sanitary ordinances
 thirteen arrests were made at the re-
 quest of the department. ten negroes
 and three whites. Nominal fines were
 imposed by the Recorder in all but two cases. .'t The sanitary inspector has caused
 to be moved from the several wards of
 the city total of 1868 loads of trash
 and garbage. By wards as fellows,
 Ward One. $40 loads: Ward Two, 17O
 loads; Ward Three, 19S loads; Ward
 Four. 1s2 loads; Ward Five, laO loads
 Ward Six. 197 loads; Ward Seven, 16a loads; business center, 52S loads. In
 addition 2S5 small animals and fowls
 were taken from the streets and hauled to the pond lot and buried.
 The sanitary and storm water sewers have been regularly flushed from diff ferent points "-e- "
 The following number of animals were offered for slaughter: Beef cattle
 96Si calves, 98; sheep, 51; goats. 1S. l hogs. S60; total, 1,510.
 Five beeves were rejected on ante-
 mortem inspection, being too poor for human food. Ono thousand, five hun-
 dred and five animals were lauRhtered
 Four beeves, two hogs, twenty-seven
 beef flyers, one hundred and thirtv-six hog flyers and bruised meats, the total "eighlns 2,542 pounds. were condemn
 ed, rendered and tanked.
 The milk inspector reports that he has collected samples from the dairv wagons and analysed same, with sat.
 isfactory results. He has insnectaS
 each dairy was required. and makes ds- tailed report,
 
 u is the duty of every Democrat to
 vote for Parker and Davis and the .r~ s"e Democratac ticket. Nothing shouId