New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-02
GUARDING ClTY'S HEALTH.
Commissioner Darlington Tells of
Work Done by His Department.

Thomas Darlington. Commissioner Of Health. last
week sent Mayor Mcclellan his report for the first
six months Of 1906 ended with June 80 The report
shows that the number of inspections made IN the
six months by the officers of the sanitary bureau
S99 65S against 799.161 in 1904 between January
and July The sanitary police made 2.7e1 arrests
and 1865 nusances were abated by personal efforts
on their part
Under the Child Labor law which assigns to the
Department of Health the issuance OF certificates
permitting the employment of children between the
ages of fourteen and sixteen, the report says:
Six thousand seven hundred certificates were
time n 600 4nerca1tiIe Observation-Disclosures bays been
obedience to the law requiring drastic action. were
An especially close watch has been kept over the
feod supplies, nearly sixty thousand specimens OF
milk have been examined and more than nineteen
thousand quarts of aduterated milk destroyed-a
first six months of 1903 over ffty-three thousand
milk inspections were made. which is about twenty
period. Nearly $4,000 in fines has been collected
for the violation of Section So of the Sanitary Code
which relates to the adulteratiOn of milk In this
connection it may be interesting to note that this
Was ever before collected Special attention has
been paid to the sources OF the MIX SUPPLY. ana
reads which transport milk The ereameTles
for1ned Of the changes required hy this qePaTtment
S e ReTGrs the SAFE OF '"s'' ''''A u 80 @
The efficiency Of the department is perhaps no
better shown than in the totals Of the fruit. food
and meat condemned as unfit for consumption and
destroyed, since it FIR sUrpaSses that OF preceding
year Over 100000 pounds OF fruit T5Oo0V0 pounds
of food and 1,C00O00 pounds of meat and tlSh nave
been condemned and destrOyed-over 89gOO9 POUNDS
more than before In the same period or time;
There has been gratifying diminuuon IN tns
number of cases of contagious diseases reported
7456 being recorded against 5S.lL4 1Or the cur
responding period OF the previous year
On March % a new procedure was introduces IN
the system of medical school inspection which, =
is believed will have FAR reaching consequences on
the health of the children and the general nea4tn
of the city Previous work has shown such ex-
tensive prevalence Of contagious diseases or the
eve and skin and defects Of vision that II was
determined to make general physical eNan1iIla-
ton of several large schools, TO ascertain Wa
and how numerous the morDl0 conolIlons
among school children. which were likely 20 anect
their future general health ana usefulness. his
evanfnetion was directed especially to the deter
T1inafion OF defects of vision, hearing and OF the
locomotive apparatus. the presence OF enlarged
Glands enlarged tonsils adenoids in the nasO-
6harYnx evidences of amemia and malnutr1uons
and fhe presence of disease of the heart, lungs or
nervous system. This examination was made In
+ba Of each child in addition to the exarntna
fion for contagious disease OF the eye ana SKIN
and the general contagious diseases
The renort estimates that Is per cent Of the chill
dren in the schools suffering from r1orbil con-
ditfons that interfere with their mental and
nbvsicaI welfare and development. The work OF
the medical inspectors and nurses in the schools
has heeu conducted vigorously that II was found
NECESSARY to exclude only 1885 children from the
schools between January and July. as opposed 70
4 sS4 who excluded in the months OF 1903