El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-26
f PASO'6 HEALTHFDL CLIMATE
MAKESIT CENTER FOR HOSPITALS
New Roton Hospital Is Added to the List of Large and
Modern Hospitals and Sanatoriums in the City; City
Hospital Planned and Plans Are Drawn For An
other Sanatorium in Altura Park Addition.

: bly, will be underway before the end of
I the year Rebuilding of tenements and
: other homes for the Mexican population
at street level will be enforced with
! sewage connections that viii make
I health conditions excellent The clean
, up" movement is being carried on by
the county authorities outside Of the
city limits and health conditions are
3 greatly improved in the settlements
along the river in the canyon to the
smelter and eastward down the valley.
Death Rate OF MexfcanS High
Out OF a normal population Of about
10000 there have been only 1245 deaths
from January l. 1916, to August 9, $50
Of them Americans, $50 MeNicans and
SO negroes and others. During the
same period there were $50 Americans.
5y9 MeXicans and five negroes and
others born. a total of 934 births The
reason ascribed by the health authori-
ties for the excess of deaths over births
of 81, was the tremendous influx of
Mexicans, fleeing from the chaotic
conditions prevailing in their country.
which brought many to the border in a
state OF abject poverty and ridden by
Illness The infant mortality among
these people was very high The death
rate among tubercular healthseekers
was, Of course comparatively high.
Health Officers Kept Busy.
a wide field Of activities is covered
by the city health department Free
vaccination is given against smallpox
and thousands of citizens have received
It. Fumigation of premises is made
whenever necessary. Only when re-
Quested is fumigation of rooms or
houses against the spread OF tuberculo-
SIS made. and for it a charge is collect
ed Advanced medical thought consid-
ers fumigatiOn in many cases TO be not
necessary A corps of inspectors check
I'D vegetable wa ons. fruit stands meat
markets, meat wagons. slaughter
houses, diaries and their wagons, ba-
keries. restaurants. ice cream parlors
and private premises Spoiled fruit,
vegetables. meats, fish and other food
stuffs unfit for use are condemned.
Cattle. hogs and sheep are inspected
for disease and when they are found to
be infected they are destroyed
Condemns Unfit Foods and Liquids.
Tests OF water and milk and ice are
made by the meteorological department
10 determine that such necessities are
pure and free from germs of commu-
nicable disease. and the chemical de-
partment also produces analyses OF
those fluids A score card system was
inaugurated some time ago BY which
all the public establishments of the
following kinds are inspected and rec
ord made each month as to their stand
ing Ice cream parlors. Il: meat mar
kets. p. restaurants. 80: bakeries Is I
The figures give the numbers of each !
c4dSS inspected IN july IN the Office ]
Of F A Mayhem. registrar, a record OF ,
deaths and births is kept. Burial per
nits are issued from this office. Recent |
action by county and city authorities !
against physicians and others to prop
erlv and promptly report deaths and !
births resulted in much better coopera-
ton.
Free Garbage Collection in Force.
More than a year ago the city admin
istrstion iuaugurated a free garbage
collection system. which promptly car
ries away from all business houses and D
private homes refuse and waste mate
rails and hauls them to the city dis
posal plant in the southwest part of
the city. near Washington park APP
proXima tely 70 percent of the garbage
is incinerated in the disposal plant and
the balance. mostly noncombustible, IS
thrown on the dump piles between that
institution and the river The sewage
also is dehydrated and burned in the
same plant, being carried there by big
ouUau sewers connected with several
miles Of deep drainage tubes. besides
the old system. extensions of which ,
reach all parts of the city About IOO-
coo pounds of garbage are hauled and I
of daily from the district ly- I
ing between Globe mills and Washing
ton park and bounded on the north and /
south by Kern place and the river In ,
the district between the railroad main