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232
ANNUAL REPORTS.
NUISANCES ABATED IN THE YEAR 1889.
L
January .*
February .
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
Cellar damp.
Cesspool offensive.
overflowing ..
118
4
1
1
1
1
1
-
-
1
-
Connections of drainage pipes defective ...
4
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
4
1
15
Drain pipe defective ..
4
2
1
?
1
1
1
12
Fish carts dirty and offensive .. Hennery offensive.
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
3
-
1
3
1
1
S
1
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
-
4
1
1
1
40
66
full.
4
1
7
S
S
20
10
4
9
1
1
86
Rubbish in cellar.
Slops thrown on surface.
1
1
1101111
1
3
?
2
1
21
Water-closet defective.
3
1
66
insufficiently sup-
plied with water.
6
S
1
1
1
1
1
19
Water-closet offensive.
6
1
1
Wooden
waste-pipes and
1
1
1
-
-
1
1
1
1
Total.
115
41
50
36
40
69
55
38
17
499
* Including nuisances referred to us by the Board of 18SS.
Number of nuisances abated
499
referred to the Board of 1890
32
complained of
531
complaints (many covering more than one nuisance)
229
tenements ordered vacated
3
66 same since made habitable .
3
66 notices mailed
164
6.6
served by constables
3
Letters written .
.
5
1
1
1
Manure exposed and offensive.
Off'al on land ...
Offensive odor in and about dwellings. .
1
untidy
5
1
1
6
6
6
3
5
3
4
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
4
2
5
1
5
20
S
1
1
16
66
not trapped.
7
1
1
3
2
1
2
17
-
6
10
21
10
4
1l
-
1
-
1
Stagnant water in house cellar. Stagnant water on surface ..... Waste-pipe defective .
3
15
Opening in drain-pipe in cellar. Premises filthy .. ...
-
1
2
3
Privy-vault defective.
5
offensive.
16
1
4 心チ
Stable and stable premises filthy and offensive ..
5
1
2
2
1
-1
Drainage emptying on surface. Drainage not ventilated.
3
11
3
2
1
1
1
1
4
Drainage defective.
emptying into cellar.
1
1
11 01
1
1
1
2
3
1
3
Hens kept in cellar.
11
16
1
-
-
.
26
1
1 1 00
1
12
10
26
1
14
1
1
15
drains
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REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Verbal notices from the inspector have, in many cases, led to the abatement of nuisances without further action.
PRIVATE STREETS .- In our last report we called attention to the bad sanitary condition of some of the private streets in the city. Owing to the lack of any concerted action of the abutters on such streets, some of them are in constant need of attention; and although the city is not responsible for the maintenance of private streets, yet we recommend that the Highway Department adopt a policy which will, at the expense of a small amount of labor and such surplus materials, of little value, as may be at hand, keep their surfaces level and free from pools of stagnant water. Chestnut street, Delaware street, Franklin avenue, Madison street, Montrose street, Runey street and South street, may be mentioned as particu- larly in need of repairs at the present time.
PERMITS.
Applications for permits to keep cows, swine and goats, and to collect grease, have been disposed of as follows :
Cows .- Applications have been received from eighteen parties for permits to keep eighty-three cows, but the board delayed action until so late in the season, awaiting the result of pending legislation which would have, if completed, extended the powers of the Board in deal- ing with the matter of keeping cows as a business, that finally no permits were granted.
SWINE .- Applications received for 197; permits granted for 187 and refused for 10. Fee, $1 for each swine.
GOATS .- Applications received for 21; permits granted for 21. Fee, $1 for each goat.
GREASE .- Number of applications received, 7, all of which have been granted. One of the applicants is a resident of Boston, and all of the others of Somerville. The fee for permission to collect grease is $2.
PEDLERS.
In pursuance of Ordinance No. 40, entitled "Hawkers and Pedlers," 154 certificates of record have been issued to pedlers of goods in our streets. This number is in addition to 239 cer- tificates previously issued, making a total of 393 certificates issued by this Board, but many of the recipients of the same have given up the business.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
A monthly inspection is made at the police building, to see that the name and number are properly painted on the wagon, and that the wagon is kept clean.
ASHES.
The contract with John P. Downey for the removal of ashes, ex- pired April 29th. In respose to solicitations published in the Somerville Journal of April 6th and 13th, and mailed to various parties, proposals to remove ashes during the fourteen months com- mencing April 30th, 1889, were received as follows : From
Martin Gill
$3,850
John P. Downey
4,000
Jeremiah McCarthy
2,950
And the contract was awarded to Jeremiah McCarthy at the sum named in his proposal, he furnishing a bond, with sureties, in the sum of three thousand dollars.
The city has been districted for the removal of ashes in the same manner as stated in our last annual report, which is as follows :
DISTRICT 1. Beginning at the Boston line and bounded by the northerly line of Washington street, the westerly line of Prospect street, the northerly line of Concord avenue extended across Beacon street to the Cambridge line, and by the Cambridge and Boston lines.
DISTRICT 2. Beginning at the Boston line, and bounded by the northerly line of Washington street, the easterly lines of Medford and Cross streets (the latter prolonged to the Mystic river), Mystic river and the Boston line.
DISTRICT 3. Beginning at the junction of Cross and Medford streets, and bounded by the easterly line of Medford street, the northerly line of Highland avenue, the easterly line of Cedar street prolonged to the Medford line, the Medford line, Mystic river, and the easterly line of Cross street prolonged to the river.
DISTRICT 4. Beginning at the intersection of Medford and Wash- ington streets, and bounded by the northerly line of Washington street, the westerly line of Prospect street, the northerly line of Somerville avenue, the easterly lines of Mossland and Cedar streets, the northerly line of Highland avenue, and the easterly line of Med- ford street.
DISTRICT 5. Beginning at the intersection of Prospect street and
235
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Somerville avenue, and bounded by the westerly line of Prospect street, the northerly line of Concord avenue prolonged to the Cam- bridge line, the Cambridge line (extending westwardly) and the northerly line of Somerville avenue.
DISTRICT 6. All of that portion of the city lying west of the easterly lines of Cedar and Mossland streets.
It will be seen by these descriptions that the side lines of streets are used as boundaries, and not the middle lines ; so that ashes are removed from the sidewalks on both sides of the street on the same day.
The collections are made on the following-named days :
Monday in District 1.
Tuesday in District 2.
Wednesday in District 3.
Thursday in District 4.
Friday in District 5.
Saturday in District 6.
The collector is required to remove all ashes, rubbish, and house dirt (free from filth and offal), that is placed in barrels or boxes on the outer edge of the sidewalk before 8 o'clock A. M. of the day for collection.
HOUSE OFFAL.
The three years' contract of Henry Gray for the collection of house, offal expired June 26, 1839, and in response to solicitations published in the Somerville Journal of April 6th and 13th, pro- posals were received for the collection of house offal in the city for a term of three years, commencing June 26, 1889, as follows :
Henry Gray Price for one year, $1,600
John McMeanly .
1,500
Christopher Burke .
66
1,300
And the contract was awarded to Henry Gray at $1,600 a year.
The contractor is required to make collections at least once every week in December, January, February and March ; twice a week in April, October and November ; and three times a week in the five. remaining months.
Mr. Gray informs us that he has collected about 450 cords of house offal during the year 1889.
236
ANNUAL REPORTS.
NIGHT SOIL.
Night soil has been removed during the year by Mr. R. M. John- son of Arlington ; his contract, which expired Feb. 1, 1888, having been renewed for three years. Orders are taken at the Police Sta- tion on Bow street, and at Knowles Bros.' grocery store on the corner of Perkins and Franklin streets. The removal is made by the "odorless" process, and the price is four dollars for every load, or part of a load, of eighty cubic feet.
We are informed by the contractor that 598 loads have been re- moved in 1889.
SEWERS.
The Board is glad to be able to report that sewers have been laid in Madison and Montrose streets, as has been recommended in its last three annual reports.
We would renew our recommendation that Kent court and Wood- bine street be provided with sewers, the reasons for which recom- mendation are stated in our last annual report.
It is very desirable that the extension of our sewerage system should keep pace with the rapid growth of the city ; and we note with satisfaction that the aggregate length of sewers laid in 1889 is much in excess of that in 1888.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths in the city in 1889 was 598, and there were 45 still-births.
MORTALITY IN SOMERVILLE IN 1889.
January.
February.
March
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. Miasmatic.
Scarlet fever.
Diphtheria
1
..
1
1
7
Typhoid fever.
7
Erysipelas
1
1
. .
. .
:
Diarrhea
..
. .
1
1
28
Cholera infantum.
1
.
1
. .
. .
1
3
Pyama.
. .
1
. .
4 . . 13 1 -: 8A ::: 11
-
-
-
I
·
6
5
28
Croup ...
..
..
1
·
1 1 11:1
2
6
Septicemia
1
. .
-
MAP OF
SOMERVILLE ·
0 108 200 500 100
1000
2000 M . SCALE ...
SASTE
B
SOCO
MYSTIC
IMILE
SIDNEY
ST.
GRANT
CHAUNCEY
WINTHROM
GARFIELY
CROSS
M
E
D
57
BROADWAY.
T
AVE
R
D
FOM
OAKLAND
MILLSST
CONAIR
TAY
AVE
VIT
ST
HOSS
FLINT
STICKNEY
CONWELL
MURDOCK STI
ST
CLYDE
WARWICK ST.
VI
ST.
LINWOOD
CHESTNUT
LDEMSEY
AV.S
TUNE
MYSTIC
SZ.
SUMMER
PRESTON
CHU
MERRIAM
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ST.
PORTER
CRAIGIE
LOWELL
DAN
VINE
NORK
11
M
LK ST
P
DIMICK STJ
C
A
M
Sewers shown thus;
I
D
G
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MYSTIC
RIVER.
·1890·
MIDDLESEX
LAVE
4000
VIII
RIUNION ST.
AUSTIN EST
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F
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ACONS
ST
MAIN
ST
WEST S
FILLED BASIN
EN
FRA
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COLLEGE
DAMS
YCAMORE
ASTON
TRULL
PARTRIDGE
ENNY LIND AV.
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ST.
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WIFE
WILLOW
SCHOOLE
MADISON ST.
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PUTNAM
PLEASANT
ST.
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ST.
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OF
MILLER'S
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AND
ST.
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SPRING
CHOUR
CLARK 3T.
LEXIN
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ST.
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WHITE ST.
MEJLAN
SOMER
LOMINSY
THEMONT
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C
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BEACON
B
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MORRISON
ST
St.
WINSLOW
CHERFIZ
BELMONT
QUINCY
ALLEN ST
BRASTOWY
HATAY NONNE
SUMMER
MEACHAM
AVE.
ST JAMES
LINDEN
MAPLE
BENT ON AV. PHARM AND ST.
FAIRMOUNT
BROADWAY
IRVING
WALLACE
CHANDLER
APPLETON ST.
RA
CE DAR
7 HUDSON
VINAL
GAR RISON
FARA
LARENO
AMES
SIMPSON AVE
NEW
JOORE
PARK AV.
ELMWOOD
CAMERON
NO
AVE
ADRIAN ST. OMO2ND2
AVE
VERNON
RAYMOND
WEARE ST.
KIDDER Av
ROAD.
HIGHLAND
BOSTON
RANLESCA AVE
MORRISON
TALRION
REDFORD
TENNY-
SI
HOWE
NORTH
COLLEGE AVEZ
LOWELL
FISK AV
APPLETES
LOWEL
CURTIS
RAILROAD
FICHDALE ATA
VES
ST
WHEATLAND
PARK.
BROADWAY.
ST.
ST.
AVE
AVE.
BOSTON
TUFTS
OF
AND
MILL POND
PROFESSORS
EINGIAN
BERKELEY
ARLINGTON
BRIDGE
HELIOTYPE PRINTING CO.BOSTON.
DERBY
SHOWING HEALTH DISTRICTS.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
MORTALITY IN SOMERVILLE IN 1889 .- Continued.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
| June.
July.
August
September.
October.
November
December.
Total,
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Miasmatic.
Whooping cough ..
Measles. ...
Dysentery.
Malarial poison.
1
· .
: : : :
1: : : 1
: : : 1:
. 15
. co
1
1
19
Tumor
1
3
Tubercular.
Tuberculosis ....
.
.
. .
..
. .
. .
:
1
1
2
LOCAL DISEASES.
Nervous System.
Apoplexy.
14
Paralysis
1
14
Insanity.
1
8
Brain disease.
1
2
2
4
2
1
1
3
27
Convulsions ..
14
Tetanus.
. .
..
..
1
1
1
. .
3
Epilepsy
1
..
..
. .
..
1
..
.
.
2
Organs of Circulation.
Heart disease.
6
10
4
5
3
1
10
5
4
8
44
Respiratory Organs.
Pneumonia ..
9
4
11
8
58
Bronchitis.
1
2
3
17
Hemorrhage.
6
13
3
10
S
6
3
7
7
85
Pleurisy
1
..
1
2
Asthma.
. .
. .
. .
.. -: :
: : :
·
. .
. .
·
1
Digestive Organs.
Gastritis ..
Peritonitis.
Liver disease.
9
Obstruction of bowels ...
1
Inflammation of bowels.
Genito-Urinary Organs.
Bright's disease.
14
Diabetes.
5
Cystitis.
3
Nephritis
1
1
1
1
Uræmia
1
1
1
6
Menorrhagia.
1
1
Childbirth
1
1
1
2
.
:
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Diathetic.
Cancer
10
1
1 12.18.
. .
2
3
2
.
. .
Spinal disease.
1
.
..
..
. .
3 . . .. : : : =: : 0
2
1
?
5
4
..
1
. .
.
1
1
Empyema.
.
. .
. .
1
Tonsilitis
. .
. .
1
: : : =:
1:1:1
11N1-11฿
1
1 18
: : : :
1 1 1: 116
12
Puerperal Phebitis.
1
1
1
2
1
.
13
Meningitis
3
1
1
شت
: . -: :
: :
Rheumatism.
:
1
. : :
5
Phthisis pulmonalis.
1
.
: -: :
-
3
238
ANNUAL REPORTS.
MORTALITY IN SOMERVILLE IN 1889. - Concluded.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. Of Children.
Marasmus ..
-
-
4
2.
2
3
1
4
2
1
1
21
Premature birth and infantile debility.
2
3
2
1
3
2
2
3
3
1
3
27
Of Old People.
Old age ...
4
-
-
1
1
3
2
2
1
2
4
2.2
General debility.
2
Congenital debility .
1
!
1
-
1
VIOLENT DEATHS.
Railroad
1
1
1
-
I
1
1
Burn .
Asphyxia
Suicide
1
1
Murder ..
2
1
Total
33
41
56
43
47
55
74
49
46
41
43
70
598
Still-born
3
3
4
1
4
3
2
5
5
5
4
6
45
Population (estimated)
38,846
Death rate per thousand.
15
DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
Of the diseases classified by this Board as dangerous to public health, scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid fever are the only ones reported to us during the year.
SCARLET FEVER .- This disease has been more prevalent during 1889 than in 1888, there being 123 cases reported in the latter year and 192 cases in the former. It has, however, been of a mild type, 7 cases only terminating fatally as against 15 in 1888.
Warning cards are placed on the houses and the premises fumi- gated after the termination of the disease.
DIPHTHERIA .- A remarkable increase of this disease will be noted over the year 1888, there being 130 cases and 28 deaths in 1889, as compared with 75 cases and 21 deaths in 1888.
We use warning cards and fumigation in dealing with this disease, the same as with scarlet fever, and we also have the sanitary con- dition of the premises investigated.
-
-
-
-
1
1
1
62118
Unknown
2
5
1
1
-
1
1
239
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
TYPHOID FEVER .- There have been 61 cases and 7 deaths from this disease in 1889, as compared withi 63 cases and 17 deaths in 1888, from which it will be seen that the number of cases have not differed materially from last year, while the death rate is considerably less.
We examine the sanitary condition of the premises. but do not use a warning card or fumigation.
SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID FEVER REPORTED IN 1889,
MONTHS.
Reported.
Number of
deaths.
Percentage
of deaths.
reported.
Number of
Percentage
reported.
Number of
deaths.
Percentage of deaths.
January
17
0
0
12
1
4
0
0
February
S
1
12
S
0
0
3
0
0
March .
14
1
-1
4
1
0
0
April
16
0
0
14
14
May .
6
0
0
26
6
23
1
0
0
June .
1.5
1
13
4
23
1
50
July .
14
1
4
1
25
4
()
0
August .
16
0
0
3
1
33
19
?
10
October
20
1
5
9
6
1
16
November
29
2
3
11
1
9
3
0
66
December .
35
0
0
20
5
25
1
0
0
Total .
192
-1
4
130
28
22
61
7
11
DEATHS FROM SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID FEVER IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
SCARLET FEVER.
DIFHTHERIA.
TYPHOID FEVER.
MONTHS.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1880.
1>81.
1882
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
.Janary
2
.
.
1
2
3
February
1
1
1
5
.
.
1
1
1
.
I
2
1
3
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
September
1
3
2
2
3
1
1
October
1
6
1
2
6
1
2
2
1
2
3
4
1
1
1
3
1
November
3
2
11
1
?
1
1
2
1
4
1
1
1
.
. .
1
3
December
2
..
1
1
10
. .
8
3
4
2
. .
Total
.
6 14 6
S 14
3 31
15
19
52
31
S
20
21
28
4
8 8 13
S 11
11
17
7
1
7
4
7
1
2
S
6
1
4
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
July
3
·
. .
?
1
1
4
3
2
1
1
1
·
5
1
1
. .
1
1
.
col : - 10 .
.. .
1
May
June
1
3
3
1
1
?
1
1
·
3 1 1 118. 81
1
March
1
April
2
1
.
3
5
4
1
August
1
1
1
111980
()
0
3
1
15
13
September
1880.
-
1
. . - 1
1
1
.
of deaths.
TYPHOID FEVER.
SCARLET FEVER.
DIPHTHERIA.
Cases
Cases
deaths.
Cases
1
50
·
: :
3
1
1
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
DISTRICTS.
The several tabulated statistics of mortality, dangerous diseases. and nuisances in the ten health districts into which the city was divided by the Board of Health of 1878, as shown by the accom- panying map, are continued in this report. The map also shows the location of sewers. The increase in population is assumed to have been the same, relatively, as the increase in the number of assessed polls, and to have been substantially uniform in the several districts.
TABLE OF DEATHS IN EACH DISTRICT DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS, EXCLUSIVE OF DEATHS IN THE MCLEAN ASYLUM
Districts .
I.
II.
Il1.
1V.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
LX.
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
7,079
6,906
2,677
4,750
7,424
1,641
4,055
1,205
2,157
952
38,846
Dwellings .
1,023
959
455
731
1,133
415
659
291
459
261
6,366
Average in jeach dwelling.
6.7
7.2
5.8
65
6.3
3.9
6.1
4.1
4.9
4.4
6.1
YEAR.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
Deaths.
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate
per 1,000.
Deaths.
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
No. of
Deaths.
No. of
Deaths.
per 1,000.
Deaths.
Rate
No of
Deaths.
Rate
per 1,000.
1880
104
23
06
13
34
20
55
18
70
30
12
19
2.1
10
=
18
423
17
1881
111
64
14
41
23
48
15
62
12
36
32
38
14
18
19
13
8
445
1882
119
24
57
12
12
22
58
17
72
14
32
27
43
15
11
13
17
11
13
19
464
17
1883
138
26
59
12
19
25
60
17
76
14
40
33
51
17
17
19
28
18
9
13
527
18
18-4 .
148
27
55
10
42
20
52
14
69
1.2
32
25
35
11
14
15
16
8
11
482
16
1885
152
28
56
11
40
19
72
20
78
14
31
24
53
17
13
14
25
15
11
531
1886
115
20
51
6
38
17
59
15
85
14
37
28
44
13
11
11
20
=
19
'4
479
1.
18-7
182
29
54
9
45
19
00
19
13
37
62
17
20
19
26
14
14
606
18
1888
148
23
68
44
oc
62
14
117
18
33
2.2
50
13
14
28
14
13
1.
579
1889
125
16
67
9
18
17
85
17
105
14
28
15
19
26
12
17
17
582
Average death rate for 10 years.
24
10
20
17
14
26
14
17
13
16
17
-
.
.
.
.
.
In 1889.
.
.
per 1,000.
Rate
Rate
No. of
Rate
No. of
Rate
No. of
Rate
Rate
Rate
1
per 1,000.
.
242
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE SHOWING THE FIVE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH IN SOMERVILLE IN 1889, WITH THE NUMBER AND RATE IN EACH DISTRICT.
CONSUMP- TION.
PNEUMONIA.
HEART DISEASE.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.
DIPTHERIA.
DISTRICTS.
Number of
deaths.
Number per
1,000 of pop.
Number of
deaths.
Number per
Number of
deaths.
Number per
Number of
deaths.
Number per
1,000 of pop.
Number of deaths.
Number per
1,000 of pop.
I. .
14
1.97
15
2.11
6
0.84
12
1.69
6
0 84
II. .
1.59
5
0.72
7
1.01
0.28
JII. .
9
3.40
4
1.49
4
1.49
3
1.11
-
IV ..
17
3.58
11
2.31
8
1.68
V. .
14
1.87
9
1.21
0.94
0.27
0.13
VI ..
5
3 04
3
1.83
3
1.83
3
1.83
1
VII. .
S
1.97
5
1.23
4
0.98
1
0.24
4
0.98
VIII. .
1
0 83
1.66
3
2.49
IX. .
3
1.39
3
1.39
1
0.46
?
0.92
X.
3
3.15
-
1.05
1
1.05
1
1.05
$ 1
4.20
Total
85
2.19
58
1.49
44
1 13
2S
0.72
0.72
TABLE OF SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID FEVER IN EACH DISTRICT IN 1889.
SCARLET FEVER.
DIPTHERIA.
TYPHOID FEVER.
DISTRICTS.
Cases ve- ported.
Deaths.
Cases per
Deaths per
Cases re-
ported.
Deaths.
Cases per
Deaths per
Cases re-
ported.
Deaths.
Cases per
Deaths per
1,000 of pop.
I. .
30
4 24
.28
23
6
3.24
.84
22
3.11
.42
III. .
32
1
1.19
.34
3
.82
12
3
2.52
.63
4
0.84
.21
V. .
30
4.04
34
4.58
.94
VI. .
6
3.65
-
-
-
4
2.43
VII. .
14
3.45
19
4
4.68
.98
V.LI.I. .
3
2.49
5
1
4.14
.83
IX. .
-
2.10
S
4
8.40
4.20
-
Total
192
4.94
.18
130
28
3.34
.72
61
-1
1.57
.18
-
15
2.17
.43
7
111280
1.01
.29
IV ..
59
4
1.24
-
-
-
10
1
4.63
-
1.85
X. .
-
II. .
16
2.32
1.11
-
11
4.11
0.95
.13
0.61
1,000 of pop.
1,000 of pop.
1,000 of pop.
1,000 of pop.
1,000 of pop.
0.83
-
1.01
0.42
3
0.63
1,000 of pop.
1,000 of pop
0.41
RATES PER THOUSAND OF POPULATION OF CASES OF SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID FEVER REPORTED, AND OF DEATHS FROM THE SAME, IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
Average for Seven Years.
DISTRICTS
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
I.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
1.91
3.25
4.98 0.96
11.35 0.55
5.76 1.26
1.26 0.18
5.67
5.12
2.25
2.59 0.52
0.86 0.17
10.48 2.10
1.45 0 32
2.74 0.64
3.51 0.61
2.44 1.07
1.21 0 28
3.21 0.84
3.11 0.42
5.77 061
3.41 0.97
0.48
II.
S Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
3.53
4.32
0.98
2.10
1.11
1.66 0.19
2.63
1.00
1.50
1.77
0.89
1.82
0.66
1 16
4.07
0 91
2.32
2.17 0.43
1.01 0.29
0.122
0.16
III.
, Cases. . ¿ Deaths
3.04
1.01
10.90 0.95
4.76 0.48
1.91
8.70
1.45
0 18
5.03 0.46
0.46 0.46
1.71
0 85 0.43
0.85 0.43
0 81
2.43
1.11
4 11
4.78 0.69
0.51
0.23
IV.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
0.29
' 5.42
1.71
8.86
2.15
0.51 0.51
9.51
1 36
4.38
0.77
3.85
2.16 1.20
1.20 0.48
1.36
1.71
2.52 0.63
0.84 0.21
4.21 0 38
2.48 0.69
0.47
V.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
2.74
7.67
1.64
2.58
3.43
1.20
6 98
2.97
0.17
3.46
1.78
0.33
4.00 0.62
1.54 0.31
0.93 0.31
2.01
2.89
1.59
4.04
4.58 0.94
0.95 0 13
3 69 0.13
3.98
0.97 0.50
V1.
Cases. . ¿ Death4.
13.22
6.61
3.31 0.83
26.44 1.56
12.44
10.27
16 50
0.79
2.99
1 49
6.96
1.39
2.08
2.63
1.98
1.32
3.65
0.61
2.43
9.45
5.87
1.42
VII.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
3.68 0.67
5.34 1.67
0.33
10.06
0.63
1.34
3.51
1.60
5.13
1.22
0 60 0.30
0.56
0.8. 0.28
1.41 0.28
5.59 0.27
1.07 0.53
....
.
1.68 0.98
6.28 0.1.1
0.76
0 17
VIII.
Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
3.37
7.86
..
17.95 1.06
2.11 1.06
7.51
7.51
1.01
17.05 1.89
3.79
7.17
1.77
0.88
..
. .
0 10
0.43
IX.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
2.51
6.28
0.63 0.63
7.09
3.55
22.81
3.60
1.20
6.24
3.97
1 70
5 82
0.53
1.06
7.51
2.00
4.63
1.85
7.42
3.65
1.37
2.51
...
. .
. .
..
. .
0.57
0.53
1 50
1.00
....
....
..
0.29
0.51
0.31
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
....
....
. .
1.34
9.55
4.09
2.72
5.15
8.40
4.80
4.51
2.27 1.13
3.40 1.13
8.40 4.20
...
0,19
0.91
0.16
City.
( Cases. . ¿ Deaths.
2.93 0.21
5 14 1.08
1 88 0.15
8.21 0.26
3.61 0.69
1.18 0.26
7.54 0.47
3 67 0.93
0.37
3.47 0.09
2.87 0.63
0.63 0.09
0.91
1 29 0.32
1 20 0.32
0.42
0.48
0.18
0.18
0.71
0.31
. .
..
. . ..
0.37
0.19
0.41
0.19
. ..
. . ..
. .
. .
....
0.17
0.47
0.31
2.13 0.40
1.21
....
. .
. .
0.97
0.48
1.64 1.09
0.82
0.26
0.26
0.96
....
....
1.46
0.73
0.52
0.31
0.17
0.17
0.17
...
. .
...
....
.
. .
.
0.55
1 45
0.12
...
...
3.16
0.75
0.70
0.66
1.07
3.45
0.11
3.26
0.88
1.60
1.28
0.64
...
6.14 1.07
. .
. .
..
...
..
. ..
2.19
1.14 0.83
8.08 0 67
3 23
2.41
....
. . .
...
...
.. .
....
..
...
. .
..
....
...
. .
. .
. .
....
3 42
1.75
4.94
1.57
5 21 0.36
3.19
1.37
.
.. .
0.29
0.57
....
0.27
0.00
2.20
1.83 0.55
.
2.12 0 35
.. .
. .
....
...
....
2 10
....
5.78
4.67
1.00
....
.
....
. . .
.
3 31 0.72
2.29
2.41
0.38
0 57
0.46
0 78 0.31
2.65
1.83 0.10
2 52
1.54
...
6.58 1.52
0.40
2 72 1.14
1.24 0 88
0.45
0.15
0.15
...
0.83
1.65
4 67
....
3.11 0.31
....
3.17
....
. .
. ..
. ..
3.00 0.50
....
...
. ..
2.85
10.74
1.36
1.87
5.91
10.30 1.29
8.15
0.30
3.81
0.77 0.26
1.6.
0.74
1.14
0.20
0.98
1.19 0.37
1.06
0 15
2.09 0.59
Typhoid Fever.
1.18 0.59
0.37
244
ANNUAL REPORTS.
NUISANCES ABATED IN EACH DISTRICT IN 1889.
DISTRICT. Population (estimated).
I.
II. 7,079 6,906
TII. 2,677
TV. 4,750
V. 7,424
VI. VII. 1,641
4,055
VIII. 1,205
IX. 2,157
952
Total. 38,846
Cellar damp
2
3
2
7
. .
2
2
1
1
26
Cesspool offensive 66
overflowing
. .
..
.
. .
1
1
1
1
4
C'on'ection of drainage pipes defective .
Drainage defective
1
4
1
1
2
. .
1
..
2
..
1
15
66
not ventilated
8
5
1
1
1
. .
2
. .
2
12
Fish-carts dirty and offen- sive .
Hennery offensive
1
. .
. .
2
Manure exposed and offen- sive .
5
..
.
: : 27 2
·
..
..
:
..
.
14
Privy-vault defective
13
4
4
5
3
6
3
2
..
40
66
full
16
8
5
7
7
21
4
4
72
offensive
25
6
4
12
9
3
5
1
. .
2
Stable and stable premises filthy and offensive
1
1
:
..
2
. .
1
1
..
. .
·
.
..
.
.
2
.
. .
20
Waste-pipe defective
1
3
I
4
9
1
..
1
. .
. .
17
supplied with water
8
3
3
2
1
19
Water-closet offensive
1
..
1
5
1
1
3
.
1
15
Wooden
waste-pipes
and
drains
1
..
..
..
. .
. .
.
. .
1
Total .
95
79
33
55
85
58
37
38
12
7
499
. .
1
..
1
..
. .
:1 :
.. : : :
1
2
15
Offal on Jand
6
. .
. .
11
Offensive odor in an ut
dwellings .
1
7
1
1
16
Opening in drain-pipe in cellar
1
Premises filthy 66 untidy
6
1
1
1
3
. .
2
1
..
. .
10
emptying in cellar,
on surface,
1
5
2
3
7
..
1
3
.
26
Drain pipe defective
2
. .
1
4
. .
?
1
..
12
1
. .
. .
1
2
3
·
. .
1
..
. .
. .
. .
1
. .
. .
Slops thrown on surface .
1
:
. .
4
Stagnant water in house- cellar
1 12-1 I
2
4
1
4
2
2
·
4
1
. .
21
Water-closet defective "
insufficiently
1
·
1
1
. .
..
1
.
.
..
.
3
..
1
. .
.M+CI. I 4
2
.
1
1
16
not trapped
2
Stagnant water on surface
86
Rubbish in cellar
1
2
..
I
. .
3
Hens kept in cellar
4
1
. .
. .
4
2
245
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND EXPENDITURES THEREFROM, 1889.
Appropriation $5,500 00
Receipts for permits to keep swine and goats and col- lect grease 226 00
Total credit
$5,726 00
Expenditures : -
For inspector's salary . $1,000 00
" collecting ashes 66 offal 1,249 95
. 2,515 68
" burying dead animals
168 50
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