The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-04

has expended s17s,5oo in new build !
lings for white school children, viz.
II Z. Lee School. Fourth Ward. 1910
III. $49.5o0. Stonewall Jackson
school, Fifth Ward. 131o-11. $4,000; /
~. NJ Brown school, First ward, 1908
%, $4,000; A. T. HIN school, sixth
Ward. 1914-15. $4,000. and bonds
have been issued in the sum OF $780,
900 to be used IN the erection Of three
negro schools. These bonds have not
been sold, but bids have been received
indicative implicit confidence in the
financial world of the city's bonds.
The expense Of maintaining the
schools in 1910. including teachers
salaries amounting to s42,G53.s7 as
against S64.126.35 for 1914, and about
$4,000 for 1915. The total enroll
/ ment in the white schools in 1900 was
t.7S3, colorcd, 1851: average daily at
tendance. white 1,443, colored l,3S5.
In 1914, total enrolment white 2,271,
corored. sag: average daily attend
ancc white fS93; colored l.i69 To-
tai enrolment first term l914-15,
white 2.253; colored 1,s5t: average
daily attendance, white 2.04s: coiored
1901. second term total enrolment.
white 2.42S. colored 1895, average
daily attendance white 2t07S, colored
$40 showing 81 total Increased en-
an average daily attendance ~ 81 in
dicating tremendous growth in the
City's population. Compulsory at
tendance was adopted by popular vote
year ago and medical inspection
with tive school nurses was adopted
this year The growth IN the High
81 Dol has been phenomenal, the pres
ent session ahowinE . total enrolment
If BIS as against ESQ in 1910. The
city contemplates the erection or
nigh school building in 1915. in order
TO relieve the present con Eested con-
ditionS existing In this school In ad~
ditto nto the regular courses taught
In tine high school there have recently
been installed domestic science and
manual training departments.
Home OF several Excellent schools.
Petersburg ia the home Of tho
Southern Female College. a private
educational institution Of high rank.
petershu also has TWO business coll
leRes and several schools for boys and
girls The virginia Normal and In
dustriai Institute a state training
school for the education OF 9olored
school teachers. ana the Central state
Hospital are located at PETERSBURG
Petersbure.s climate attracts many
homeseekers. with an average winter
temperature of thirty nine degrees,
spring and autumn average cf sixty
uf seventy five degrees, being free
from extremes Of heat and cold The
average rainfall AZ Petersburg is forty
five inches evenly distributed through
out the year.
Splendid Health Conditions.
General aealth conditions IN Pet
ersGurg have greatly improved In the
past few years through the means Of
a better sewerage system and more
strict enforcement Of health laws In
the past twenty months there
has been 1nly one death IN the city
from dtphtheria as against about 500
I'm the state In the last two years.
which NJ the regular ratio would have
given Petersburg twenty deaths iu-
stead Of the one. The Health Depart
nient has not recorded "a death from
scarlet fever in many years and there
has been only one death from typhoid
fever IN the city IN the past ten
months, which Is about the best re-
, cord Of any city OF the same size IN
1.-THE country During the past twelve
months there have been very few epl-
, denies No deaths have resulted from
the very foS cases or smallpox dlS-
: covered here, q large percentage or
, which were contracted elsewhere ana
. there has been a noted decres9se in
deaths from tuberculosis. There has
, boen a marked increase In the ratio
of deaths from pellaGTd. The city has
recently installed a twentH-ton De-
carrie incincrator which ~ working
satisfactorily and will eventually prove
Of much benefit TO the health condi-
tions of the city. The CITY through
its health dcpa rment di$penses dlph
iberia anti-toXin and smallpox and
typhoid vaccine free 10 those who
are unable 10 purchase il. The death
rate is a biz higher than other cities
OF the same population due, in "A great
measure, 10 deaths occurring at the
city almshpusc and the Petersburg
Hospital. both Of which are within the
corporate limits The rate, according
10 the last statistics issued by the
state Health Department was sixteen
for the white and thirty-one for the
colorcd population. OF the deaths
occurring In the city there has been
included. nj least. during one year,
one ont OF every ten who were nom
residents Since the office of milk
md fond inspector Was created III
1909. satisfactory progress has been
made in the care and cleanliness
with which milk IL being produced
ana sold Some Of the finest dairies
in the state supply the city with milk
Directed by DIR. Robert A. Martin.
The Healta Department ~ ably Ill
rected by Dir. Robert \. Martin,
native Petersburger. with two wen
qualified health and sanitary inspcc-
tors and a food and dairy Inspector
Labor conditions In Petersburg
could hardly he improved. The wage
carriers are industrious and. as a class,
lcontented Strikes are foreign to RESI-
iden of the city. Petersburg mas
never been seriously affected by gen
--n!al- lepIeslsIAI- ia hil&ineAa- sald Is Sa1d
now, by men familiar with conditions
generally, II be better off in this par
ticular than any city throughout the
hcountry This is mainly attributable
to the great diversity Of it's manufac-
turing enterprises.
Petersburg manufactures annually
more than six million pounds of plug
and twist tobacco for export. Dir more
than seven -eishths OF the total manu-
featured in tho United State.
large Tobacco Interests.
Three billions of cigarettes, or prac-
tically all Vt the cigarettes rnanufac-
tured in the United States for export,
were manufactured in Petersburg
during 1914. The largest plant of the
British American Tobacco Company Is
located in Petersburg. covering many