The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-28
Report of Petersburg Health De
Partment for Month End
ing July 20.
FOURTH SUICIDE IN MONTH
Council Delays Appropriation for
Furnishing adequate
Water Supply.
TImes-pispa'ch Bureau
. Boliu-bropk street
lfnona 1855.

Petorsbure. Va. July -
The report OF the h,alth Department
Ion tho month cndin. yesterday. July
20. shows a total OF nitv-i.!no deaths III
in" city. included in which wero seven
non-residcnts brought hero in H. or
desperately wounded condition for
treatment. The months motality re
cord is cons derabiv below tnat OF
July of last year. and below the aver
ago for the same month for the past
sis years. While in July of last year
seventeen cnses OF ,yphoid fever We're
under treatment. thera were only seven
cases this month. with no fatalit'ea.
The city is entirely frco OF smalpoN
OF the decedents. thirty-one were
white and twenty-eight We're colored
Ninctecn deaths wer. reported among
infants and children under hve years
of age. nine amone adults between
sixty and eighty years and two OF
persons who had passed the age OF
fourscorc years. There were nine
deaths Of Tuberculosis and three VT
heart disease. Sine bodies were ship
ped away and ten brought 10 the CITY
tor burial
y remarkable feature Of the montna
mortality was the number Of deaths by
violence and accident There were
two suicides by shooting and ono oy
poison There were two deaths by
drowning. and two deaths by train
accident-the two sisters Blanche and
Ruin Everly. OF Chesterfield. struck by
tho Cannonball train. There deaths
resulted Immediately afterwards IN
Petersburg.
The birth Record
There were ten less births than
deaths in the city during th's month
the total being forty-nine. whites
Twenty-Five: colored. twenty seven.
Enur:h Sulcinc In Month.
Edward Sanford. aged about TWEEN
weight years. committed suicide In
tho city Jail this afternoon by drink
INK carbolic acid lie swallowed the
poison a few minutes past o'clock
and in nftecn minutes was dead.
though PHYSICIANS were hurriedly sum
moned to relieve him The bottle
from which he drank the poison bore
the label or local Druggist 1t had
Ions neck. and as tho suicides lips
were not burned. It IS supposed the
neck OF the bottle must have been in
serted far back In his mouth
Sanford was former cmploye OF
the street Railway Company. He was
arrested several weeks ago for nom
supper, OF hls vito ana children. and
was put under bond TO contribute a
weekly sum to their SUPPORT. y day
or two ago his hondsman withdrew
as security because he was not keep
Ing his promise. and accordingly sand
lord was arrested and put in jail. lie
was searched. as every prisoner is
when entering iail. but nothing was
found on him HIS mother visited at
the dinner hour to-day. bringing some
Thing to cat. II is not known how
he secured the poison. but IL Is sup
posed he must have had it concealed
somewhere about his person.
This was the fourth suicide In this
city this month. two BY carbolio acid
ana two by shooting
Appropriation Delayed.
= called meeting Of the Common
Council was held last night. for the
specified purpose of making an ap-
Precipitation FOR the installation and
operation ~ hvpochloritc plant for
purifying the river water soon TO be
drawn upon for the city's consunp-
tion Sixteen members were present,
exactly the number necessary to make
the appropriation 1t was estimated
that $3.50 Would be sufficient TO in
stan ana operatA the plant FOR one
hundred days and this amount was
asked for last ght. Objection was
made on The ground that other mat
ters connected with the use of the
river water should be considered be-
fore tho plant Is installed and as
these matters we're not mentioned IN