The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23
THE CITY'S HEALTH
SANITARY DEPARTMENT
 MAKES FINE REPORT.
The Deaths Exceed Births by Nine Dur ing Month of May but Contagious Diseases Seem Entirely
 Lacking.

The Sanitary Department of the city government has completed the monthly vital statistics of Montgomery, arrahg- ing the deaths and births according to classes. The report is for the month of May, and is one of the best May re- ports that has tcen rendered for some time, in spite of the fact that the deaths exceed the births by nine.
 The monthly report for he month of May, 1906, sho wed that during the thirty-one days there. were seventy nine deaths and fifty-six births. The report for May. this year, shows that the difference in the dea -hs and births was not so great as on the year pre- vicus, there being during the past month seevnty-two deaths and sixty two births.
 The seventy-two 4eaths during the past month were dislrIbGie ed according to race and sex as follows: White, males, 12; white femates. IT; total whites, 29. Negro males, 21; negro 4e- males, 22; total neProes AZ.
 The deaths were attributed to forty one causes which have been arranged as follows:
 Accident, street railway, 2; gunshot wound. 1; anaemia, 1; anasarca. l; ab- cess of lung, I; arterio, sclerosis, l; Bright's disease, 1 bronchitis, l can 'cer. 5; colitis, 1; congestion, 1; convul- sions, ?; dropsy, 1; dystenry, 2; delerium tremens. 1; enterities. 1; entero colitis, 2; fractured skull, l fever. malaria. 1; fever. typhoid. 4; gastritis, 1; heart faiure, 8; hamilton, 1; infantile convul- sions, 1; lagrippe, 2; measles, 2; men, ingitis, l.; mentral insufficiency, |; nephritis, 6; paralysis, ?; pneumonia. 1; paresis, 1 poison. ptomaine, I; poison, septic, 1; phthesis. 1; pemphisus, T.; septicaemia, 1; senility, 4; tuberculosis. 2; toxemia of pregnancy, 1; whooping cough. 1: unclassified. 1. Total 72.
 Deaths by Wards-Ward 1, 10;; Ward 2, 12; Ward 8, 8; Ward 4. 16; Ward 5. 10; Ward 6, 9; Ward. 7. 12. Total 72.
 Social Relation of Descende nts-Chil- dren, under ten years, 19; single. over ten years, IS; married, 25; widowed, 10; unknown. 5. Total, 72.
 Nativity of Decedents-Alabama, 52; England. 1; Germany 1; Georgia. 5; Mississippi 1 Tennessee. l; Virginia, 1; unknown, 10. Total, 72.
 PIaces of Interment.
 Oakwood cemetery .... 54 Reese cemetery .. .. .... .. ..... westcott cemetery .... ..... Shipped ............ 14 Total ...... ................ 72
 Deaths at Instftutions.
 County jail ............... l County poorhouse ...... .. ...... Hale fnffrmary Montgomery infirmary .... .... .... St. Margaret's hospital ...... ..... Total ....... ... .....1s Bodies Shipped to Montgomery for In-
 terment.
 WnlteS Q Negroes ss.......... 4 The births during the month of May race and sex as follows: White males 15; white females. 14; total whites, 29. Negro males. "A; negro females. 10; total negroes, 34. Total births, 63.
 During the month there were no contagious disease treated at the Emergency Hospital. there being re- ported, in all. only four, of which three were from scarlet fever and one from diphtheria.
 Seven fumigations were made by the department at various hospitals of the city during the month. and 50 rooms belonging to residences were fumi- gated. The departments also made dur