Evening journal., 1922-12-30
637 INCREASE
IN ARRESTS
LAST YEAR
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streets, or a total OF l2O,2Sb square
yards. The approximate cost fol
the work, including sewers put in, is
100000.
Edward 5. McAteer. clerk OF the
market. collected from holders OF
stands in King, Madison and lincoln
street markets as follows: January
S12O.75; February $685.; March
SS3S.75; April. S1434; May. s445.50;
June, S259.75; July. S259.5O; Au-
gust, s3IS.25; September, f264.25;
October. S157; November, S2O4; De-
cember. s234.75. making a total for
the year of S4,627.75.
There was a decrease in rain fall
! for the year compared with 1921.
The record for the year, by months,
as kept by Charles II. Simmons. OF
the Street and Sewer Department
for the Federal Government, is as
/ follows: January1.74 inches; Febru-
airy. 1.99; March. 4.07; April 2.64;
/ May, 2.21; June, 4.a4; July 5.el'
August. 3.13; September, .ss; Oc-
tober. 1 SIS; November. SO; Decem-
Der. 2.92: making a total of 1892
inches. There was a total snow
fall during January and February
of 244 inches. The wettest month
was March, the driest, November.
The Bureau OF Police shows
decrease in dog licenses for the year
OF S94. The total number issued
for the year was 2,250.
For the six months beginning
July 1. up to noon today. the sum
OF S2.1OO.OS1.27 was collected in city
and school taxes.
Tax Collector Klund for the North
ern District, reports a total OF w.
4e5,4sfs2 collected Tax Collecor
Dolan, for the Southern District, re-
ports a total of S6O4.5s9.65.
The report OF Building Inspector
Preston shows a gain of S59O,334 in
valuation Of buildings erected this
year, as compared with 1921, There
were 1.O4S permits issued, an in
crease Of 67 over last year; fees
collected. S5.sS5. a gain of si.276.
Total valuation of permits for this
year. H2.S27,O44.
Hospitals DO Much.
The hospitals had a busy year. At
the Delaware Hospital there were
"a patients on January 1, 1922, as
compared with 1O7 in the hospital
today. During the year 1924 pa
tients were admitted TO the wards.
There were 176 deaths. 233 births, !
total number days service 35,012;
free days service. 9574; average /
number OF free patients treated a
day. &c; visits TO the dispensary, TO- !
S32.
At the Homeopathic Hospital /
there were 81 patients on January .
], 1929; admitted during the year .
TO date. 114S; births. 222; deaths, I
Il; discharged. 127T, leaving a to- /
tai OF SO in the hospis8l today. /
There were 4.Os6 patients treated .
in the dispensary.
On January !. 1922. there were
81 patients in the Physicians and .
Hospital: admitted dur
ing the year. 935: births. 123;
deaths. 81: discharged. 941. leaving
a total population in the hospital
Of %. Five hundred and forty-sev-
en- opera tions were performed dur
ing the year, and 215 patients treat
ed in the dispensary.
~ the anu ' NlAAfH Abh1 AAko
,ital there were IL patients on Janu-
Try l, 1922; admitted. 1856; dis
'harged. 1926; deaths. 4 operations.
J; leaving a population OF 6 today.
During the year 101 cases OF scarlet
ever We're treated. other diseases
reated were diphtheria. G: measles.
f; blood poisoning. ?; whooping
oush, T.
on January 1. 1929. there were
II male and 257 female patients in
he Delaware State Hospital: admit
ed during the year, - males and 36
emsles; discharged. 35 males and p
emales; died. 20 males and Il fe-
males. The hospital population to-
lay is 29O males and 255 females.
At the New Castle County Hos
ital, Farnhurst. 50 patients died. 40
atients were discharged and 229 ad-
nitted. leaving a total population OF
9s patients.
According to reports filed in the
'fiice OF the Board OF Health there
we're 1852 deaths. 3.410 births, and
'3S marriages during the present
ear.
For 1921. according to figures pub
ished a year ago, there were 1852 ,
Ieaths, go marriages. 2.729 births.
There were Increases. compared
With last year Of 500 deaths. 2s mar
iages and 6S1 births. c
Coroner Bullock reports 251
eaths during the year. in which In /.
uests were held in 13O cases.
Captain of Detective Benson re- Z
orts 614 arrests made by the Detec-
We Bureau during the present year c