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CLEANING STREETS. - We would recommend that greater care be exercised to keep the streets clean. Many of those that are thickly settled should be cleaned quite frequently. We are informed that in Boston several of the business streets are cleaned daily, and we suggest that portions of our own streets near grocery and provision stores be cleaned at least twice a week.
PERMITS.
We have issued permits to keep swine and goats, and to collect grease, the same as in former years, charging two dollars for a permit to collect grease, and one dollar for each swine or goat.
All permits issued expire on the first day of May of each year.
SWINE. - Applications were received for permits to keep 232 swine. Permits were granted for 229, and refused for two, and the application for one was withdrawn.
GOATS. - Applications were received for permits to keep 19 goats, and permits were granted for all but one, - a permit for which was refused.
GREASE. - Twelve parties applied for, and were granted, permits to collect grease. Five of them resided in Somerville, four in Cambridge, and three in Boston.
We learn from the boards of health of Boston and Cambridge that forty-one Somerville parties were licensed during the year to collect grease in the former city, and six in the latter.
We have recommended three of our citizens as suitable persons to be licensed to collect grease in Cambridge.
192
ANNUAL REPORTS.
ASHES.
Ashes and house-dirt were collected the first four months of the year by the highway department, under the direction of this board, at a cost of $1,016.79. In April a contract was made with Martin Gill for removing the ashes, etc., for the year commencing April 29, at a compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars per month. Collections are made, the same as heretofore, on Wednesdays in Ward One, Thursdays in Ward Two, Fridays in Ward Three, and Saturdays in Ward Four; and the materials for removal (to be free from filth and offal) must be placed in barrels on the outer edge of the sidewalk before nine o'clock in the forenoons of the days when collections are to be made. The amount paid the high- way department for removing ashes in 1884 was $2,570.59, being an average of $214.22 per month.
HOUSE-OFFAL.
Christopher Burke has collected the house-offal, under a three years' contract which will expire June 26 of the present year, without any money compensation.
Collections are required to be made at least once a week in December, January, February, and March ; twice a week in April, October, and November ; and three times per week in the months of May, June, July, August, and September.
NIGHT-SOIL.
Messrs. Russell and Fitch removed the contents of all privy- vaults and cesspools up to the 1st of June, by the old method, at a compensation, collected from householders, of four dollars per load in the months of May, June, July, August, September, Octo- ber, and November, and two dollars and fifty cents in the five remaining months of the year.
On soliciting proposals for a new contract, it was found that lower prices could be obtained for doing the work by the new, or what is termed the " odorless," process, than by the old. Accordingly a contract for the term commencing June 1, 1885, and extending to Feb. 1, 1888, was made with Mr. R. M. Johnson of Arlington, for emptying the vaults and cesspools by the " odorless " process,
193
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
at a compensation of four dollars per load, or part thereof, through- out the year ; a load consisting of eighty cubic feet, the same as under previous contracts.
The work is now done in the day-time, and very much quicker than by the old method ; no dirt is made upon the premises, and all offensive odors are destroyed ; and, altogether, the change is highly satisfactory.
Order-books are kept at the police-station on Bow Street, and at the grocery store at the corner of Perkins and Franklin Streets.
The contractors report that five hundred and sixty-two loads were removed during the year.
SEWERS.
During the year the board of aldermen laid a sewer in Cherry and Fairlee Streets, and a sewer was also built in Wyatt Street by the owners of the abutting estates. By means of the drainage facilities thus afforded, long-standing nuisances, which have been repeatedly mentioned in these reports, have been abated.
Sewers should be built in Lowell Street, Ward Three, and its vicinity, as the sewage now flowing on the surface causes a serious nuisance to the public.
A sewer is also needed in Woodbine Street, which is near Lowell Street, but on the other side of the Lowell Railroad.
SCHOOL-BUILDINGS.
In September a case of diphtheria occurred in the family of the janitor of the Luther V. Bell School ; and, as they occupied apart- ments in the basement of the schoolhouse, they at once vacated the premises by our order, and the entire building was thoroughly fumigated under our direction. Soon afterward, at the request of the school committee, we made a careful examination of the drain- age ; and, because of defects found inside the building, it was deemed best to close the school until the proper repairs and changes could be made. The school was closed two weeks, and during that time the defects were remedied.
The sanitary arrangements in some of our school-buildings are defective, and should receive the careful consideration of those hav- ing the buildings in charge. We are glad to note that the author- ities have taken an interest in this matter during the past few years.
.
194
ANNUAL REPORTS.
DEATHS.
Five hundred and forty-eight deaths have occurred during the year, and twenty-four still-births.
MORTALITY IN SOMERVILLE IN 1885.
-
January.
February.
March.
April.
May
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
Zymotic Diseases.
Scarlet-fever
14
Diphtheria
28
Croup
1
6
Typhoid-fever
11
Erysipelas
3
Dysentery
1
14
1
21
Cerebro-spinal meningitis
1
1
1
Septicemia
1
1
1
€
Puerperal fever
4
Measles
1
1
3
Constitutional Diseases. DIATHETIC.
Anæmia
1
Syphilis
1
Cancer .
1
1
1
1
1
2
Abscess
1
TUBERCULAR.
Tubercular meningitis .
5
Marasmus
1
11 1
22
Local Diseases. NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Apoplexy
12
Paralysis
1
11
Insanity
1
7
Brain-disease
1
Meningitis
1
4
21
Convulsions
1
1
ORGANS OF CIRCULATION.
Heart-disease
29
Pericarditis
IN
1
4
1 19
1 00
-
2
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
Pneumonia
13
11
14
82
Bronchitis
2
2
1
15
Lung-diseases
Phtisis pulmonalis
8
97
Pleurisy
-
-
1011 1 00
1 81119
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
14
Cancer of breast
1
Cancer of uterus
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Diarrhea
3
Cholera-infantum
1
Whooping-cough
1
3
1
14 2
Epilepsy
-
3 1 00
Hemorrhage .
2
1
11
1 9 - 1 61110
1 0 1 1 coco
IHHINI
1 11
21
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
MORTALITY IN SOMERVILLE IN 1885 - Continued.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
Gastritis
Enteritis
2
Peritonitis
10
Liver-disease
Obstruction of bowels
Hernia .
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
GENITO-URINARY ORGANS.
Bright's disease
Diabetes
Cystitis
1
1
Developmental Diseases. OF CHILDREN.
Premature birth and infantile de- bility
1
-
-
-
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
2
15
OF OLD PEOPLE.
Old age
4
2
1
1
-
-
-
2
17
Violent Deaths.
Accident .
1
1
4
3
11
Fracture of skull
1
1
1
2
SUICIDE
1
-
1
1
1
1
4
1
-
1
Total .
63
43
50
51
49
34
60
49
43
34
34
38
548
Still-born .
1
1
3
1
1
4
4
4
1
2
2
24
Population (by census) Death-rate per thousand .
29,992 18.43
1
1
1
1
1
ʻ
1
1
1
-
1
Railroad
1
1
UNKNOWN
-
-
-
1 1
1
1
1
19
2
5
8
1
196
ANNUAL REPORTS.
DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
SCARLET-FEVER. - There were 226 cases of this disease reported to our board during the year, 14 of which proved fatal.
The whole epidemic has been of a mild type, and, as was the case last year (1884), no unusual precautions were taken by the board.
We continue the custom of placing cards of warning, with " scarlet-fever here " upon them, on all houses in which the dis- ease exists. We also fumigate after all cases.
DIPHTHERIA. - Only 110 cases of this disease were reported, of which 28 proved fatal.
We are happy to state that nothing of the nature of an epidemic has visited us. Warning cards are used, and houses fumigated, in all cases.
TYPHOID-FEVER. - Forty-one cases were reported, with 11 deaths.
During the latter part of August a case of typhoid-fever occurred in a house just over the city line, in Medford. This house is located in a valley ; the land around it, which is used for farming purposes, and on which large quantities of night-soil have been used, slopes toward the house. The house is an old one, with a damp, musty cellar, and a sort of shed in which is situated the well used for cooking and drinking purposes. The vault, or rather the hole in the ground used as a vault, is situated on a higher level than this shed, and is only twenty-four feet away from the well. This well is practically in the centre of this whole slope, and must necessarily catch all the filth from it.
The family living in this house at the time of the outbreak of the sickness consisted of three persons ; namely, father, mother, and daughter. All of them took the disease, the mother's case proving fatal. The man who worked for this family, and who drank the water from this well, lived in one of four small houses located near this first one. These houses were close together, and have one common vault. This man was sick some time before calling a doctor, and all of this time used the common vault.
There was another case in this house, one in the next, three in the third, and one in the fourth.
An analysis of the water from the well where the epidemic started (which was kindly made for us by Mr. George H. Cowdin
197 A
| Number of Family.
Nationality.
Occupation of Head of Family.
Sex of Patient.
Age of Patient.
Date of Sickness.
Result.
Soil.
Locality.
Condition of Cellar.
Privy.
Remarks.
1 American . Lawyer .
1
Male
January
7
Clayey gravel,
Satisfactory
Dry
None; water-closet in bath-room. 46
2
Irish .
Contractor
2
Female,
8
7
3
Teamster
3
14
3
Sand
66
4
American .
4
Male
4
6
Clay
Low 66
Waste-pipes not trapped; drains defective . i Damp Drain-pipe defective; waste-pipe not trapped, Drain-pipe and waste-pipe defective . Drains defective
Damp; hens in cellar . Not any
18
offensive. None; water-closet in cellar, defective.
7
Clerk
7
7
2
Good
Waste-pipe not properly trapped Defect in drain-pipe
Dry
44
=
8
8
Male
5
"
7
Fair
Opening in drain-pipe in cellar
' offensive odor in
9
Female,
38
February. 66
S
Gravel .
. Drainage defective
Damp
10
Salesman
13
57
9
$66
Waste-pipe not trapped Drainage not ventilated
Damp
8 feet from house, vault full and offensive.
12
Irish ,
Porter
15
33
6
Low
Drainage defective
6
46
46
44
13
Laborer
16
4.4
=
1
Fatal
1
.
1
Clayey gravel,
Waste-pipe not trapped Drains defective
.Dry
None; water-closet in cellar. 8 feet from house.
17
American
Clerk
20
11
7 Gravel
Good
18
Porter
21
4
46
Fatal
5
Clayey gravel,
Fair
6
Clay
Low
Waste-pipes not trapped ; drains defective, Drainage defective
Damp
4 .4
20
Irish .
Laborer .
23
66
10
5
Fatal.
21
American .
Expressman
Female,
6
5 Gravel
Good
. Waste-pipe not trapped Soil-pipe and drain-pipe defective
Dry
8 "
. In same house as No. 18.
22
Clerk
27
Male
3
10
=
7
. Soil-pipe not ventilated
: Dry
24
Fireman
29
10
2
Fatal
7
13
8
Fair
Defects in drain-pipes
Damp
Water-closet in cellar.
. Cesspool 18 feet from house; overflowing.
27
Packer
33
Male
10
7
Waste-pipe not trapped
Dry .
46
28
Machinist
35
66
29
Widow .
36
Female, 19
April
4
Sand
Waste and drain pipes defective House drainage not ventilated
Dry
None; water-closet in cellar.
31
Irish
Laborer
39
Male
8
Fatal
4
.
4
Clayey gravel,
Waste-pipe not trapped
35
Irish .
Teamster
S
8
| Drainage defective
Dry
6 feet from house; offensive. 4 66
Cesspool 12 feet from house, full and offen-
38
46
Female,
Male
10
10
1
Clayey gravel, Low
2
Gravel
Good
Waste-pipes not trapped Drainage defective
Basement
oms
18
6
42
Laborer .
Male
1
Clay
Low
13
Laborer
52
Male
5 Gravel
Fait
Waste-pipe not trapped Drain defective .
45
54
Male
1
Waste-pipe not trapped
Damp Not any Dry
None; water-closet in cellar. 4 feet from house; offensive. 18 . 4
5
Irish
Laborer
2
=
6
.
6
American .
Salesman
6
Female,
2.
Fatal
2
Clayey gravel,
Fair
11
Carpenter
14
Female, 39
8
Clayey gravel,
Gravel 46
Waste-pipe not trapped Drainage defective
15
American Irish
19
6
1
Defective connection of drain and soil-pipe, Waste-pipe not trapped
Dry
None; water-closet in bath-room. 8 feet from house; offensive.
19
Salesman
22
Female,
9
.6
9
46
8
66
None; water-closet in bath-room
46
. Cesspool 10 feet from house; offensive. Insufficient supply of water to water-closet in bath-room Stable adjoining house; offensive.
25
Laborer .
30
26
Clerk
31
Male
Female,
46
4
April March
5
66
=
30
4.
Mason .
Low *
Drainage defective
Damp
3 feet from house; offensive. 6 .
.
Sewage flowing into cellar.
32
American
Clerk
40
41
9 mos. 6
7 Gravel .
Ilouse drainage not ventilated
36
. Salesman
7
Good
Waste-pipe not trapped
Damp
Clerk
45
May
Fatal .
1
Low Good
WVaste-pipe not trapped
8
44
Sewage flowing into cellar.
40
Irish
Laborer Carpenter
48
Female,
5
6
44
46
41
American Irish
50 51
Female,
1
44
46
53
Female,
June
Fatal
1 Clayey gravel, Low
Drain-pipes defective Waste-pipes not trapped
None; water-closet in cellar.
33
Salesman Clerk
42
.
43 44
Female, Male
Drains defective
10
6
39
Drv
Drain-pipe defective .
Not any
10
4. 44
offensive
-
64
12
Male Female,
34
January . 4 4
CO
18
Male
19
February, 66
Damp, offensive odor .
24 25 26
Male
8
-
23
28
Female,
22
March
Waste-pipe not trapped
Damp
15 feet from house . None; water-closet in cellar.
Drain-pipe defective .
Dry
.
32
34
.
.
37 38
19 27
1 Gravel Sand
4
34
bath-room
[sive
American 37
47
. House drainage ventilated.
=
. Book-keeper .
11
2
Male .
Dry.
14
17
10
offensive.
16
Female,
Male
=
. Cesspool 4 feet from house; offensive.
10
2
.
-
Good Fair
" shed adj. house. 10 feet from house; offensive. 15 4
Shipping clerk,
Number of
Patient.
DIPHTHERIA IN 1885. - INSPECTOR'S REPORT.
District.
House Drainage.
*
Damp
Damp
Fair Good Fair
.
49
197 B
Number of Family
Nationality.
Occupation of Head of Family.
Sex of Patient.
Age of Patient.
Date of Sickness.
Result.
Soll.
House Drainage.
Condition of Cellar.
Privy.
Remarks.
46
American
Clerk
55
Female,
25
June
Gravel .
Good
Drainage not ventilated
Dry
None; water-closet in cellar.
47 48
Irish .
Laborer
57
5
66
Fatal
1
Clayey gravel,
Fair
Waste-pipe not trapped
Damp
15 feet from house; offensive.
American
Clerk
59
7
July
8
Gravel
Drainage defective
46
10 4
Water-closet in cellar.
51 52 53
Irish .
Laborer
63
6
1
Low
54
=
Fireman
64
10
44
5
Fair
Waste-pipe defective .
Basement room
12 feet from house.
55
American
Pedler .
65
=
5
Sept'ber .
Fatal
6 Clay
Low
Drainage defective
Not any
8
56
Trish .
Laborer.
66
67
8
68
5
=
10
Male
15
Fatal
Clayey gravel,
Fair
Untidy
8 feet from house; offensive.
72
American . Carpenter
73
Male .
12
3
Gravel
Drain and waste pipes defective
. Untidy and offensive .
None; water-closet in cellar.
74
8
6
59 Irish .
Storekeeper
=
3
October . Sept'ber .
1
Clayey gravel, Gravel
Fair
62
Restaurant
80
4
5
Good
63
Trish .
Laborer
81
2
Fatal
6
Fair
Damp.
64 65 66
Italian
84
Nov'mber,
1
Fair
Damp
67
American
.
68
Trish .
86
8
.
.
69
American
Lawyer .
88
5
7
Clayey gravel,
Good . Drainage defective
Dry .
None; water-closets in bath-room and
70 71
Trish .
Laborer
91
Male
Fatal
1
Fair
. Waste and drain pipes defective
72
American
Salesman
92 93
Female, Male
8
5
Gravel .
Good
House drainage not ventilated
Dry
None; water-closet in cellar.
73 74
Italian American
Laborer
.
.
.
64
8
December.
98
Female,
11
Fatal.
99 100
Carpenter
101
Female,
8
5
44
Waste and drain pipes defective
Damp
8
=
77 78
American
Mason
104
Male
5
Gravel
.
5
..
cellar.
80
Mason
106
3
5
Drain-pipe and waste-pipe defective . Drainage defective
Damp
offensive.
82 83
Trish
Laborer
110
Male
6
1
Clayey gravel,
Low
Drains defective Waste and drain pipes defective
Damp
None; water-closet in bath-room. 6 feet from house; offensive.
*
Female,
14
Female, Male .
5
1
House drainage not ventilated
Dry
60
Laborer
61
American 6 4
Salesman
79
10
6
Waste and drain pipes defective Drainage defective
Damp
14 feet from house. 10
Basement rooms Dry
None; water-closet in cellar. *
82
10
October
1
83
9
1
4.
Good
Waste-pipes not properly trapped Waste-pipe not trapped
Laborer
85
7
=
1
Fatal
1
44
Damp
Water-closet in cellar.
[cellar.
89
Male .
90
Female,
16
5
..
House drainage not ventilated
Damp
None; water-closet in bath-room. 14 feet from house .
Had both scarlet-fever and diphtheria: in- cluded in tables of deaths under scarlet- [fever.
-
4
Female,
13
=
9
3
Fatal
6
Clay
Low
Drainage defective
Damp
10 feet from house.
Basement rooms
8 44
66
offensive.
Male
13
5
=
76
Irish
Laborer
103
Female,
10
Fatal
1
Clayey gravel,
Drainage defective
Not any
6
offensive .
| Yard and shed filthy.
Dry
None; water-closet in bath-room.
79
.
Super'tendent, 105
.
Clerk
107
3
Fatal
1
Fair
108
5
Female,
6
10
Good
-
57
=
8
4
58
75 76 77 78
.
5
.
Female,
Male
Carpenter Fruit-pedler
Female, Male
Fatal
Dry
87
24
.
.
95
Male
96
5
7
Gravel
Good
House drainage defective
Fair Good
Waste-pipe not trapped; drain-pipe defective, Defect in drain-pipe near water-closet
81
+
.
Professor
109
.
58
Female,
1
1
Low
Waste and drain pipes defective
49 50
60
Salesman
61 62
Male
3
August
Fatal
2
Good
Waste-pipe defective . Waste-pipe not trapped
Dry
None; water-closet in cellar.
Damp
=
. Sewage flowing into cellar.
Dry
5
offensive.
Female.
7
Premises filthy.
69 70 71
38
16
3
Good
Drains defective
15
Offal and slops thrown in yard.
66
56
Male
8
.
102
Male
6
=
Defect in drain-pipe in cellar
=
75
American
Dry
10 feet from house. None; water-closet in cellar. 6 feet from house; offensive. 10 4
.
Female,
Salesman
.
Basement rooms
Brush manuf. 94
Number of
Patient.
DIPHTHERIA IN 1885. - INSPECTOR'S REPORT - Concluded.
District.
Locality.
5
Fair
3
Fatal.
Low
House drainage not ventilated Waste-pipe not trapped Drainage defective
Dry
February,
97
9
197
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
of Somerville) showed large quantities of impurities and organic matter ; some of these being in such large quantities as to be easily detected in the water as it came from the well, without evaporation.
The main point of interest in this series of cases is their probable origin and method of transmission.
VARIOLOID. - Only one case of this disease occurred in our city during the past year. This case was important, being one of the same series of cases which proved so disastrous to Montreal.
All precautions possible were taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Immediately after receiving notice of the existence of the disease, the patient was visited, and the house isolated by means of a police-officer night and day. The case terminated favorably, and no other cases resulted from it.
Our board ordered a general vaccination in September ; and in this way, during September and October, 2,233 persons were vac- cinated free of expense.
We are free to say that in our judgment Somerville is one of the best protected cities, from this scourge, in the Commonwealth.
TABLES. - The inspector's tabulated report of the sanitary con- dition of houses where diphtheria was reported is presented here- with ; and we also present tables of scarlet-fever, diphtheria, and typhoid-fever reported, with the deaths from the same, during the year, and of deaths from these diseases in the city during the past nine years.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCARLET-FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID-FEVER REPORTED IN 1885.
SCARLET-FEVER.
DIPHTHERIA.
TYPHOID FEVER.
MONTHS.
Cases
reported.
Number of
deaths.
Percentage
of deaths.
Cases
reported.
Number of
· deaths.
Percentage
of deaths.
reported.
Number of
deaths.
Percentage
of deaths.
January
32
2
6
15
13
6
February
10
1
10
1:
March .
13
1
8
7
1
14
1
April .
21
5
25
11
2
18
2
1
50
June
16
1
6
6
2
67
2
1
50
August
9
-
6
2
33
3
1
33
September
14
1
-1
14
3
21
9
3
33
October
30
2
6
12
5
42
5
1
20
December
24
1
1
13
1
31
2
-
Total .
226
11
6
110
28
25
41
11
25
DEATHS FROM SCARLET-FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID-FEVER IN 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1SS4, AND 1SS5.
SCARLET-FEVER.
DIPHTHERIA.
TYPHOID-FEVER.
MONTHS.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
January
February
March
April
1
1
1
1
June
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
4
3
1
1
1
3
3
October
2
1
1.
4
5
1: 1
1
1
-
1
-
Total
10 15 16
6 1 4 6 8 14
59
27 29 19 44 52
31 21 2S
6 5 3 7 8 813 S 11
-
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
August .
1
1
1 1
September
November
December .
1
2
-
-
1
1
S
5
S
3
1
5
1
4
2
1
1
1'
1
3
-
1
1
3
2
5
1
2
1
2.
1
1
2
1
1
1
4
2
5
2
6
1
1
1 19
-
1
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
INHINHHA
-
-
1 1
1
3
1
1
3
3
1
July .
-
1
3
11
1
33
4
1
1188
May
11
-
S
2
25
29
2
-
July
10
-
-
3
3
25
November
36
.
1
May .
1
1
1
2
Cases
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
DISTRICTS AND POPULATION.
We present a map, as heretofore, showing the boundaries of the health-districts into which the city was divided by the board of health of 1878, and the locations of dangerous diseases reported during the year.
We also present tables showing the number of deaths in the dis- tricts during the past twelve years ; the five principal causes of death, the prevalence of dangerous diseases, and the nuisances abated in the same, during the past year ; and the rates per thou- sand of cases of dangerous diseases and deaths therefrom in these districts during the past seven years.
Since the census of 1880 we have assumed that the population has increased, from year to year, at the same rate as the taxable polls ; and on this basis we estimated the population in 1884 at 30,468, while the population, by census, in 1885 was only 29,- 992, and at the same time we know our population increased dur- ing the interval.
In making comparisons, therefore, between the rates per thou- sand of disease and mortality for the two years, this discrepancy must be borne in mind.
TABLE OF DEATHS IN EACH DISTRICT DURING THE LAST TWELVE YEARS, EXCLUSIVE OF DEATHS IN THE MCLEAN ASYLUM.
Districts .
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
Entire City.
Area
·
337 A.
107 A.
93 A.
171 A.
361 A.
285 A.
194 A.
482 A.
174 A.
456 A.
2,660 A.
Population . .
5,464
5,332
2,067
3,667
5,732
1,266
3,132
932
1,666
734
29,992
¿ Dwellings .
843
785
330
579
942
294
515
185
316
158
4,947
Average in each dwelling . .
6.5
6.8
6.2
6.3
6.1
4.3
6.1
5.0
5.2
4.6
6.1
per 1,000.
1874 .
147
37
53
14
24
16
86
33
67
16
34
37
26
11
17
25
18
15
3
00
475
22
1875 .
149
37
84
22
26
17
56
21
75
18
29
32
32
14
13
19
15
12
7
15
486
22
1876 .
113
30
62
17
17
12
62
24
78
20
23
26
25
12
11
17
25
22
10
20
426
21
1877 .
126
32
57
15
18
12
57
22
61
15
31
34
29
13
12
18
32
27
5
10
428
20
1878 .
92
22
50
12
32
21
53
19
53
12
24
25
32
14
15
21
17
14
7
13
375
17
1879 .
92
21
50
12
29
18
62
22
77
17
14
14
22
0
14
19
16
12
9
16
385
16
1880 . ·
104
23
56
13
34
20
55
18
70
15
30
28
32
12
19
24
12
10
11
18
423
17
1881
111
23
64
14
41
23
48
15
62
12
36
32
38
14
18
22
19
co
8
12
445
17
1882 .
119
24
57
12
42
22
58
17
72
14
32
27
43
15
11
13
17
11
13
19
464
17
1883 .
138
26
59
12
49
25
60
17
76
14
40
33
51
17
17
19
28
18
9
13
527
18
1884 .
.
152
28
56
11
40
19
72
20
78
14
31
24
53
17
13
14
25
15
11
15
531
18
1885 .
.
Twelve years
.
1,491
27
703
13
394
19
721
20
838
15
356
28
418
13
174
19
251
15
101
14
5,447
Rate
YEAR.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
No. of
Rate
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
Deaths.
Rate
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
Deaths.
Rate
per 1,000.
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