The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-02
HEALTH OFFICER
MAKES REP OR 7.
Deaths in Petersburg for Year
Ending June 20 Number
o1S.
UNWILLING OF M o N U M EMIT
Delightful Echoes of Veterans
Recent Trip to
Springfield.
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street,

PETERSBURG, va, august /.
The annual report of the health off.
Ger. Just issued gives the total nun.
Der of deaths in Petersburg during
the year ending June &c. 1910, as SIS
whites 249. colored AGO. These figures
include all deaths within the municipal
limits, whether the decedents were res.
idents or non-residents. or che dece.
dents. siSty-two white and 1913 colored
children died under the age of five
years, 100 persons had passed the age
Of sixty years, and one reached the CEN
fury mark.
The report says that with smaller
population, the colored race shows
practically twice as great mortality
among children as the white, and this
is an important factor in keeping up
The dean rate--a factor that can best
be removed by education and the i'm
provenlent Of the living surroundings
of the race.
''As usual" says the report, "tuber-
culosis was the most frequent single
cause OF death. In all there were
eighty-two deaths attributed TO this
disease, which is larger number than
ordinarily"
There were i07 cases of typhoid
fever, with fourteen fatalities, ninety.
SIX or the cases occurring prior to De-
ceHlper 70 OF last year. The
eradication of typhoid fever is a prac.
deal matter. well within the province
OF municipal government. !.
Statistfcians assert that $500 is the ay.
erage loss per case. and with this as
basis of calculation, we see that
petersburg in the past twelve months
has suffered a loss of s32,100 from this
disease alone"
The health officer reports that dur
ing the past year the city was pe
culiarly exempt from contagious dis
eases. The creation OF the office of
MIX and Food Inspector less than a
year ago has been followed by re-
suits that are entirely gratifying.
ABOUT $4,000 has recently been invest
ed In the erection and reconstruction
OF COW stables dairies, etc. The health
officer advocates the establishment OF
an incarceration plant for the disposal
OF garbage, as an important health
measure.
Births Reported.
Inc total of births in the city for
the year was 595-whites, 2e2. coll |
ored. So3- These figures are believed
TO be about 40 per cent. of the actual !
total.
The members of the Board of Health
are DR.. r. A Martin, president and
O'AA~S't II. Jones'. LIT,
w. p. Hoy and DR.. w II. Crockford.
Surry Confederate Monument,
Some seventy-five or more veterans
OF a. z. Hill Camp, accompanied by
the camps drum corps. will leave to-
morrow morning for Surry Courthouse
to participate in the exercises Incl
dent TO the unveiling of the Beautiful
monument erected to the memory of
Surry's Confederate soldiers The
monument is located in front OF the
courthouse, is 81 feet in height. with
a base of s 1-2 feet square, and is sur
mounted with a bronze figure of a
Confederate cavalryman at parade
rest.
Ex-Governor Swanson will be the |
orator of the occasion, and Governor
Mann is expected to be present and
deliver an address. "A great assemblage
or people of the county and section
will be present.
Echoes of the Springfield Trip.
MRS. .. w. Ward. of Davenport. Ia,
has sent to member of A. p. Hill
Camp postal card with a picture OF
the cemetery of Confederate prisoners
who died in the prison at Rock Island
Arsenal, in which she says:
I thought you might like to see a
picture of where some of your absent
comrades sleep. They are not for
gotten on Memorial Day. We watched
your triumphal march on Independ- 7!
ence Day in Springfield, Mass. (our
old home). through the columns of the /
papers, and would liked to have been
there. too"
John E. Stewart. of Springfield. a
Union soldier who saw service around
Petersburg, in a letter to member OF
A. P. Hill Camp. says:
referring to your recent visit |
please remember that you conferred M