The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-26
Sanitary Report. Reveals
 Fine Condition.
SANITATION OF CITY IS GOOD
Statement Compiled by Chief Clerk
 Crosland for June.
Department Has Been Particularly Active in Conbstting Summer Complaints-Only Three Cases
 of Contagious Disease.
Chief Clerk D. W. Crosland.


 The sanitary report of Chief Clerk D. W. Crosland for the month of June. as compiled in the office of the Sanitary Department, shows not quite so good a percentage as the report for the proceeding month of May. How ever, the report compares very favor ably with the June report of other years. and has the advantage over them.
 In May of thfs year the statistics for the month showed that the seven- ty-two death of the month were off, set y sixty-three births. the differ ence being in favor of the death by nine. The June report just com piled shows that there was during the thirty days sixty-six death, while fifty five births were reported, the differ ence favoring the deaths by eleven.
 During the past month the Sanitary gent aver the matter of fighting sum mer complanits, and accordingly by keeping the sanitation of the \6ty in good condition, has been in- strumental in preventing the spread of all contagion and the entrance of IL into Montgomery. Especial attten- tion. also. has been paid to thosk dis tricts that last year at this time sui fered from malaria and other fevers,
  time being fewer than in several years.
 Of the sixty-six deaths the deceRents died of thirty-seven various diseases and conditions, lne largest number or deaths from any cause being due to tuberculosis, which >claimed as its vic- tims eleven, nearly all of whom were negroeA The next highest number of deaths was due to nephritis, live falling victims to this disease.
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 The causes of all the deaths are as follows:
 Accidents, etc. railroad. 1; gun shot, 1: abscess, 1; appendicitis, 1; auto in toxication, 2; brights disease,1; blood poison, 3; carcinoma, l; cancer, l; con xestton, 3; convulsions. l. cholera in- fantr-,, 1; cirrohis of liver. l; colitis. 2; dropsy, l; dentition. 2; dysentery. 1: entero colitis, 1; endo carditis. 1; fever. malaria. i; fever, scarlet, 2; fever. ty- phoid, 3; gastritis.' 4; heart failrure. |; lilo colitis, 1; intestinal obstruction. |; la grippe, 1; meningitis, 2; nephritis, E: poison, carbolic acid. 1; poison, strychnine. 1; poison. morphine. l; senility, 8: syphilis, l; tuberculosis, II; tentanus, l. whooping cough. 2; total. 66.
 males. six white females; twenty-two neero pales and tenty-four negro fe- males. Total number of males, thirty six: total number of females. thirty; total number of whites. twenty, and total number of negroes, forty-six.
 Deaths by Wards-Ward l, 4; Ward 3. 8; Ward 3, 4; Ward 4, 26; Ward 5. 5; ward 6, g; Ward z. 10; total. 66.
 Social Relation of Decedents-Chil- dren, under 10 years. 12; single. Iover 10 years, IT; married. 16; widowed, II; unknown, 10; total, 66.
 Nativity of observation-disclosures, 42; Georgia. s. Mississippi, 1; South Car olina, 1; North Carolina. 1; Tennessee, 1: Virginia, 1; unknown, II; total, 66.
 Places of Interment-Oakwood Gem etery, 54; Taylor Cemetery. I; Vest colt Cemetery. 4; shipped. [; total, 66.
 Deaths at Institutions-County Poor House. 5 Hale Infirmary, 1; Montgom cry Infirmary, 1; St. Margarets Hos pital, 8; Watkins Infirmary, 1; total 16.
 Bodies Shipped to Montgomery for Interment-Whites, z; negroes, 5; to- tai. 12.
 Fifty-five births were recroded by the department during the month. O. this number eleven were white males twelve were white females; thirteer were negro males and nineteen were ne gro females. Total males, twenty four; total females, thirty-one; tota whites, twentythree; total negroes thirty-two; total white and negroes fifty-ive.
 Only Three Contagious Cases.
 There were during the month onl!