R E R O R T 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
TO THE 
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. 
JANUARY, 1 S 6 r » 
NEW ORLEANS: 
J O NIXON, ST-XTE PRINTER. 
1SG7. REPORT. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Slate of Louisiana: 
The Board of Health have the honor to submit the following report: 
In conformity with law, the Governor of the State appointed as members 
of the Board, Messrs. Baquie, McCord, Pennington, Drs. Stone, Choppin 
and Smith, and the City Council elected Dr. Foster, Dr. Austin and Mr. 
Creevy. 
On the 16th of April they organized by electing Dr. S. A. Smith Presi- 
dent, and Dr. Geo. W. Dirmeyer, Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. P. B. Mc- 
Kelvey was appointed by the Governor Resident Physician at the Missis- 
sippi Station. As the Governor's proclamation had been published 
declaring certain ports in the West Indies infected with cholera, the 
Board elected Dr. R. C. White Resident Physician at the Atchafalaya 
Station, and Dr. J. C. Legare Resident Physician at the Rigolettes Station, 
and on the application of Dr. McKelvey, Dr. J. W. Breedlove was ap- 
pointed Assistant Resident Physician at the Mississippi Station. Since 
the military occupation of the city of New Orleans by the U. S. forces, 
the property of the Board had been in their possession, and the quaran- 
tine laws of the State had been administered by a Board and Resident 
Physicians appointed by the Commanding General. As soon as the Board 
was organized, notice of the fact was given to the Governor, and he was 
requested to take such steps as he deemed necessary to cause the property 
of the Board to be turned over to it. A correspondence ensued between 
the Governor and the Commanding General, and an order was issued by 
the latter for the property and archives of the Board to be turned over. 
A very small portion of the old records and a very small quantity of mova- 
ble property was turned over and received by the Board. 
The buildings and grounds, much dilapidated, was taken possession of. 
The balance of the funds on hand, together with the records of the mili- 
tary administration, were retained, and upon special application made by 
the President of the Board to the Medical Director of the Department for 
them he was refused, and the money, by order of the Commanding Gen- 
eral, was turned over to the Quartermaster's Department. It was urged by 
the President that this money had accrued from the administration of the 
civil laws of the State, and by a tax upon the commerce of the city after 
it had come into the possession of the U. S. Government; that, therefore, 
it belonged to the State, and should in justice be given up to the Board 
to be applied to the objects for which the laws intended it; that the new 
Board just coming into existence, with an epidemic impending, needed it 
to make its service effective. 
The Medical Director answered that the U. S. Government had given 
more to the Charity Hospital, and otherwise to the people of the State, 
than it had received from this or any other source, to which the President 
replied that these donations might be a valid claim against the State in a 
settlement between the Government, but was not just to the Board of 4 
Health, whose funds were raised by special laws, and were to be expended 
for special purposes, viz : to preserve the whole country from the ravages 
of imported disease. The authorities were inexorable; they refused to 
exhibit to the Board any account of the military administration. 
At this time the Board determined to place their claim in the hands of 
Alexander Walker, Esq., who was then about to visit Washington for pre- 
sentation to the Secretary of War. This gentleman returned from that 
place, having not accomplished anything, when the Board by resolution 
authorized the President to memorialize the Secretary of War on the sub- 
ject; this was done through Mr. Walker. No response has been received. 
The Board thus went into operation with no means on hand. 
The receipts and expenditures, as well as the present financial condition 
of the Board, is exhibited in the accompanying statement of the Secretary 
and Treasurer. 
The cholera was not only ravaging some of the West Indian Islands, 
but was existent in New York. The Board desired to perform its duty 
to the utmost extent of its powers, both in keeping out the disease, and 
in removing the conditions which favored its development and malignity. 
Unfortunately it found itself without means to effect anything towards 
the latter unless the City Council zealously co-operated with it. By the 
Act establishing the Board, a vague general power was given it to provide 
for the health of the city. It was empowered to pass health ordinances, 
which should be obligatory, provided the City Council published them as 
city ordinances. 
It had, however, no means to defray any expense, not even the pay of 
necessary agents. The Board feeling that there existed in the public 
mind an idea that it was in some way responsible, and that it was incum- 
bent on it to do all in its power to prepare for the expected epidemic, 
proceeded to pass a health ordinance prepared by a joint committee of 
itself and the City Council. This ordinance was published by the Coun- 
cil as a city ordinance, and thus became a law. A copy of it is forwarded 
with this report. 
By it four Inspectors were created, whose salaries were paid by the City 
Treasury. Their duties were to inspect all parts of the city, with the 
view of discovering all infractions of the Health Ordinance. The power 
given to the Board to order the Street Commissioners to remove all 
substances deleterious to the general health, was delegated to them. 
Four gentlemen, men of energy and probity, and all members of the 
medical faculty, were elected by the Board to the position of Inspectors, 
and at once proceeded to the performance of their duties. These gentle- 
men worked zealously throughout the summer to attain the objects of the 
Health Ordinance, and it is believed by the Board that there were no 
officers of the city government whose service did more for the public 
good; none the cost of whose salaries were more richly returned in 
benefit to the tax payers. They not only by constant vigilance discovered 
noxious influences, but the fact of their existence operated as a constant 
spur to the Street Commissioners and to the Police. 
Notwithstanding, the,City Council, after the fears of the public mind 
as to the epidemic had subsided, thought proper to take away the salaries 
of these officers, and the Board of Health from want of means, has 
ceased to have influence upon the sanitary condition of the city. As the 
law stands it is virtually nothing but a Quarantine Board, with no practi- 
cal power except that of exercising a surveillance upon vessels entering 
the port. In view of the immense proportion which the City of New 5 
Orleans bears both in point of population and amount of property to that 
of the whole State, the Board ventures to recommend to the Legislature 
tp take up the subject of its health for special consideration. It is 
believed that it is practicable to make this city one of the healthiest upon 
the continent; could it once be established that it was practicable to 
prevent the disastrous epidemic of yellow fever to which it has hereto- 
fore been liable, nothing would be able to retard its rapid growth in 
population, wealth and commercial preponderance. 
In the opinion of the Board there is no subject more important to the 
material interest of the State which could engage the attention or occupy 
the wisdom of the Legislature. For it is not only the metropolis, contain- 
ing a large portion of the people of the State, but it is the natural entrepot 
of the Mississippi valley. It is the natural point of commercial inter- 
change for the productions of the tropical and temperate zones of this 
continent. Give it a reputation for health, and not only would business 
men seek it as a position on which to accumulate wealth, but capital 
would locate itself here permanently, and by its mighty influence develop 
the undreamt of resources of the State. 
The Legislature of the State of New York, ever alive to the interest of 
its great metropolis, has thought it wise to take the health of the city of 
New York under its own control, and has established a Board of Health 
for the Metropolitan District. A copy of its act establishing said Board is 
herewith forwarded for your examination. It is for the wisdom of the 
Legislature to decide whether it will follow this example and undertake to 
provide for the health of the Metropolitan District of this State, or whether 
it will leave this immense interest, as heretofore, in care of the municipal 
authorities of the city. 
The act establishing quarantine has been found defective in practice in 
several particulars. The Board respectfully ask that it be revised and 
amended so as to more completely accomplish the intentions of the 
Legislature. 
Prior to the passage of the Health Ordinance, the Board, having no 
means to pay Inspectors, charged the President, its only salaried member, 
with the investigation of all suspicious cases of disease, with the view of 
detecting the first appearance of cholera or yellow fever in the city. The Pres- 
ident accordingly visited every case which he could hear of with symptoms 
of either disease. About the 16th of July a case was reported to have died 
on the 14th at No. - Hercules street. Dr. Thierry, the attending physician, 
was requested to furnish a history of it. He did so, and his description 
was a graphic one of the Asiatic cholera. Nevertheless the man had been 
previously sick, and had eaten imprudently. Dr. Ball afterwards reported 
that he had prescribed for other suspicious cases in the same house about 
the same time. The Medical Director, Col. McFarlin, reported that on 
the 22d a recruit, who had been for some time resident in New Orleans, 
and belonging to a detachment billetted at Holmes's foundry, near the 
new Basin, was taken with cholera and died in a few hours. Sixteen cases 
occurred in this detachment in the course of the week, five of whom died. 
The troops were removed from that locality, the sick were sent to the 
Sedgwick Hospital; immediate steps were taken to disinfect and purify the 
quarters and baggage, and the disease soon disappeared. On the 31st of 
July, Dr. Henderson summoned the President to witness the case of a 
negro woman upon Bace street, and by the 1st of August cases had 
occurred on Race, Robin and Felicity streets; also among the soldiers 
occupying a cotton press upon Robin street, Dr. Ball, on the morning of 6 
the 1st of August, invited the President to see a case on Liberty between 
Thalia and Erato streets. It was that of a young white woman, taken at 
2 a. m. , hopeless at 5. After seeing it the President summoned a meeting 
of the Board, and gave it as his opinion that this was an unmistakable 
case of cholera asphyxia. It was not until the 3d of August that any notice 
was given of its introduction into the Charity Hospital. On that day Dr. 
Smythe, the House Surgeon, summoned the President to that institution, 
when he found that there had been five cases, all from the Workhouse near 
the new Basin. The first was brought in on the 1st. While the President 
was there the first case reported from below Canal street was brought in 
dying. When he returned to the office, he met an officer of the Navy 
Department from Algiers, who reported a number of cases among his 
employees. On the 4th of August Dr. Milum reported it in Jefferson. 
The disease was now soon diffused throughout the city. A profile line is 
herewith transmitted, exhibiting the mortality each day, from the 28th of 
July until the 4th of November. The cases of the disease which occurred 
presented characters of excessive malignity. There was little or no success 
in treating cases in collapse, yet the weight of mortality fell almost entirely 
upon colored people, and whites living in poor conditions. 
How to account for the almost entire exemption of the population living 
in good circumstances is an interesting problem. It would seem from our 
experience that there is force in the allegation that those sleeping in 
second stories are less liable than those sleeping in the lower strata of the 
atmosphere. By letters addressed by the President to the mayors of the 
cities and towns on the Mississippi and Red rivers it has been ascertained 
that cholera appeared in St. Louis on the 3d of August, at Memphis on 
the 8th, at Baton Rouge August 1st, Natchez on the 7th, at Shreveport on 
the 12th; at Vicksburg it had not appeared on the 13th, at Alexandria on 
the 25th. The newspapers reported it at Port Kearney on the 27th August, 
all arriving on steamboats from this city. Thus it will be seen by this 
detail that cholera appeared in this city on the 22d, if not before; it was 
confined at first to one locality and then for several days to two; that about 
the 5th of August it had extended itself throughout the city; that it was 
carried by steamboats, either by means of persons or goods, to St. Louis, 
by the time that it reached the lower part of this city; that it reached there 
before it manifested itself in the towns below. In short, it would appear 
established that an influence, or substance, or germ, was introduced into 
this city from without, that it developed itself here into epidemic dimen- 
sions, and that from this city it was propagated throughout the Mississippi 
Valley by means of commercial intercourse. 
Yellow fever also appeared in the city, but the deaths from that disease 
never rose above seven per day, very rarely above three; the mortality 
was almost entirely in persons unacclimated and recently from foreign 
countries or Northern States. 
The first case known to have occurred was that of a Frenchman em- 
ployed at Mr. Griswold's on Canal street, and who boarded at the Orleans 
Hotel on Chartres street. He died with black vomit at the Hotel Dieu, 
under the care of Dr. Boyer, on the 10th of August. This man had not 
been out of the city for several months, save to hunt or fish in the neigh- 
borhood. On the Sunday prior to his attack, he had been out on one of 
these excursions, and complained on his return of fatigue and weariness. 
It was a month before any other fatal case was reported. 
The Board has been unable to trace the introduction of either disease 
through the quarantine limits. It takes pleasure in testifying to the zeal- 7 
ous vigilance of the resident physicians and the hearty cooperation of the 
Federal authorities. 
The steamer Merrimac is the only vessel known to have brought cholera 
from New York or elsewhere prior to the 5th of August. A soldier coming 
on that vessel was taken while in port the night after her arrival, and died 
in a few hours. She was reported at the Mississippi Station, clean and 
healthy. 
In conclusion, the Board respectfully calls the attention of the Legisla- 
ture to the fact exhibited by the report of the Secretary, that the expen- 
ditures of the Board exceeded its receipts by the sum of $7,101 75. 
That there exist old claims against the Board, approved by its Attorney, 
(principally for salaries of its officers) arising after the closure of the port 
during the war, which necessarily dried up all sources of revenue, amount- 
ing to the sum of $7,168 41. As these claims are believed to be valid, 
and the property of the Board, consequently of the State, is liable to be 
executed* and sold for their payment, the Board think it proper to ask 
for relief and appropriation, or a loan from the general fund sufficient to 
pay off its indebtedness. 
This indebtedness has been caused by the failure of the Board to get 
the balance in the hands of the military authorities when it was organized. 
It started into operation thus as it were, '1 de novo " and without means. 
The commerce of this city, besides, is much less than before the war, 
when the Board had an annual surplus. The Board confidently expects 
its receipts henceforward to equal its expenditures, and that application 
for the aid now asked for will not be repeated unless war or other unfore- 
seen calamity interrupts the commerce of the city. 
Respectfully submitted, 
S. A. SMITH, M. D., 
_ President of the Board of Health. 8 
Receipts and Expenditures Board of Health, 
1866. 
May 28-To Smith, Newman & Co., borrowed, 
June 30-To Mississippi Station, Quarantine fees, 
1,944 00 
500 00 
July 31- do do 
1,325 50 
Aug. 31- do do 
1,042 50 
Sept. 30- do do 
894 00 
Oct. 31- do do 
1,807 50 
Nov. 30- do do 
1,798 00 
Dec. 31- do do 
1,874 00 
1867. 
Jan. 31- do do 
1,630 00 
1866. 
June 30-To Rigolets Station, do 
615 00 
12,315 50 
July 31- do do 
1,215 00 
Aug. 31- do do 
882 50 
Sept. 30- do do 
1.050 00 
Oct. 31- do do 
742 50 
June 30-To Atchafalaya Station, do 
20 00 
4,505 00 
July 31- do do 
10 00 
Aug. 31- do do 
135 00 
Sept. 30- do do 
120 00 
Oct. 31- do do 
162 50 
Nov. 30- do do 
182 50 
630 00 
17,950 50 9 
from June 1st, 1866, to January 31st, 1867. 
1866. 
June 30-By Office Expenses, Sundries this month 
1,155 92 
July 31-• do do 
1,061 50 
Aug. 31- do do 
584 84 
Sept. 30- do do 
978 69 
Oct. 31- do do 
1,171 47 
Nov. 30- do do 
656 07 
Dec. 31- do do 
845 62 
1867. 
Jan. 31- do do 
645 98 
- 
7,100 09 
1866. 
June 30-By Mississippi Station, do 
840 29 
July 31- do do 
524 81 
Aug. 31- do do 
860 99 
Sept. 30- do do 
869 89 
Oct. 31- do do 
1,058 83 
Nov. 30- do do 
715 85 
Dec. 31- do do 
746 75 
1867. 
Jan. 31- do do 
591 75 
- 
6,209 16 
1866. 
June 30-By Rigolets Station, do 
86 00 
July 31- do do 
516 01 
Aug. 31- do do 
304 49 
Sept. 30- do do 
461 00 
Oct. 31- do do 
380 00 
Dec. 31- . do do 
229 83 
1867. 
Jan. 31- do do 
40 00 
2,017 33 
1866. 
June 30-By Atchafalaya Station, do 
124 15 
July 31- do do 
211 50 
Aug. 31- do do 
164 90 
Sept. 30- do do 
80 00 
Oct. 31- do do 
272 50 
Nov. 30- do do 
207 50 
Dec. 30- do do 
342 85 
- 
1,403 40 
Balance, 
1,220 52 
_ 17.950 50 
New Orleans, January 31, 1867. 
GEO. WM. DIRMEYER. M. D., 
Secretary Board of Health. 10 
EXPENSES BOARD OF HEALTH TO JANUARY 31st, 1867. 
From June 1, 1866, to January 31, 1867. 
To 
Jan'y 31st. 
Total. 
Paid to 
Jan'y 31st. 
Unpaid 
Balances. 
Office Expenses: 
Kent 
Furniture . _ 
Stationery, Printing, Advertising 
Salaries 
Sundries 
976 61 
349 30 
2,719 25 
3,938 57 
1,160 88 
843 28 
349 30 
2,068 95 
3,271 91 
566 65 
133 33 
650 30 
666 66 
594 23 
Mississippi Station: 
Employes' Wages 
Physicians' Salaries 
Supplies from City 
Sundries at Station 
2,974 85 
4.872 04 
1,407 61 
477 68 
9,144 61 
I 
I 
7400 09 
2,225 69 
2,620 80 
884 99 
477 68 
2,044 52 
749 16 
2,251 24 
522 62 
Kigolets Station: 
Employe's' Wages 
Physician's Salary 
Supplies from City 
Sundries at Station. 
437 34 
1,588 00 
82 25 
216 80 
9,732 18 
6,209 16 
437 34 
1,280 94 
216 80 
3,523 02 
307 06 
Atchafalaya Station: 
Employes' Wages... 
Physician's Salary.. 
Sundries at Station 
Quarantine Boat.. 
Money lost in transmission from 
Station. 
639 90 
1,234 25 
4 90 
211 50 
40 00 
2,324 39 
2,017 33 
499 90 
647 10 
4 90 
211 50 
40 00 
307 06 
140 00 
587 15 
2,130 55 
1,403 40 
727 15 
2,331 73 
16,729 98 
6,601 75 
GEO. WM. DIRMEYER, 
Secretary Board of Health. 11 
SUNDRY CREDITORS BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Mississippi Station: 
Employes at Station, Wages Nov., Dec. and Jan. 
Dr. P. B. McKelvey, Salary 
Dr. J. W. Breedlove, 'Salary 
Theo. Meyer, Supplies. 
Rigolets Station: 
Dr. J. C. Legare, Salary 
749 16 
1,904 62 
346 62 
522 62 
3,523 02 
307 06 
Atchafalaya Station: 
Employes' Wages 
140 00 
Dr. W. C. White, Salary 
587 15 
727 15 
Office Expenses: 
G. W. Sizer, Rent 
133 33 
G. W. Sizer, Carpenter Work 
40 00 
Bloomfield & Steel, Stationery, Printing, &c 
321 80 
New Orleans Crescent, Printing and Advertising. 
136 75 
New Orleans Picayune, Printing and Advertising 
125 25 
New Orleans Times, Printing and Advertising 
34 50 
New Orleans Bulletin, Advertising. 
20 00 
New Orleans Bee, Advertising 
12 00 
Dr. S. A. Smith, Salary 
666 66 
0. Czarnowski, Medicines 
54 23 
Attorney to Board 
Smith, Newman & Co., Borrowed Money 
500 00 
2,044 52 
500 00 
7,101 75 
Add Old Claims Approved and Rendered Valid by 
Resolution of Board of Health, July 25th, 1866: 
Dr. Foster, Resident Physician Mississippi Station 
3,854 11 
Dr. Nott, President . 
1,541 61 
Dr. Dirmeyer, Secretary 
1,166 62 
Dr. R. C. White, R. P. Atchafalaya Station.. 
406 25 
Dr. R. C. White, Hire of Slaves.. 
80 00 
R. W. Adams & Co., for Supplies 
Total.. 
119 82 
7,168 41 
$14,270 16 
GEO. WM. DIRMEYER, 
Secretary Board of Health. 12 
Of the Board of Health from 1st June to 31,si December, 1867. 
MORTUARY REPORT 
Diseases. 
Ijune 
July. 
Aug. 
Sqpt. 
Oct. 
Nov. 1 Dec. 
Total. 
Abscess of Kidneys .... 
1 
1 
" of Liver 
1 
1 
1 
J 
4 
" of Lungs 
2 
2 
" of Neck 
1 
I 
" of Side 
1 
1 
Albuminuria 
3 
2 
1 
4 
10 
Amputation 1 
1 
1 
Aneurism 
1 
1 
' ' of Aorta 
1 
1 
2 
4 
" of Heart 
3 
1 
1 
□ 
Anaemia. 
1 
1 
3 
3 
1 1 
10 
Angina 
1 
1 
Angina Pectoris 
2 
2 
Asphyxia . 
1 
1 
1 
3 
Asthenia i 
1 
1 
2 
Apoplexy 
i 12 
8 
12 
5 
6 
8 12 
63 
Asthma 
i i 
3 
1 
5 8 
18 
Aptha ... J| 
1 
1 
Bronchitis 
1 7 
7 
G 
o 
5 
5 1 
36 
Burns or Scalds 
1 4 
1 
3 2 
10 
Bright's Disease. 
1 1 
1 
1 
3 
(lancer. 
I 4 
2 
3 
3 
5 
17 
' ' of Brain 
1 
1 
" of Breast _. 
3 
3 
' ' of Rectum 
1 
1 
" of Stomach . 
2 
1 
1 
1 
2 
7 
" of Womb || 2 
1 
1 
1 
2 
7 
Carbuncle .. 
1 
2 
3 
Catarrh 
3 
1 
1 
2 
3 
10 
Chickenpox 
6 
1 
7 
Cholera, Asiatic 
30 
569 
456 
166 
47 26 
1294 
" Infantum.. | 
13 
12 
13 
12 
15 
10 3 
78 
" Morbus 
3 
21 
47 
8 
5 
51 2 
91 
Carcinoma 
1 
1 
Cirrhosis of Liver. -| 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1| 
8 
Colic 
2 
2 
2 1 
7 
Colic Bilious 
1 
1 
Colic, Lead.. 
1 
1 
Concussion of Brain - 
3 
1 1 
Congestion of Bowels. 
1 
1 
2 
' ' Brain . 
8 
9 
12 
5 
7 12 
58 
" Lungs.. 
1 
1 
1 
3 
i 
4 3 
14 
Constipation of Bowels 
1 1 
1 
Consumption - - 
i 
55 
35 
37 
43 
60 57 
370 
2 
9 
1 
12 
" Adult 
1 2 
1 
4 
12 
3 
4 
26 13 
D 
MORTUARY REPORT-Continued. 
Diseases. 
June 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Total. 
Convulsions, Infantile.. .. 
35 
27 
29 
18 
15 
18 
18 
160 
Convulsions, Puerperal. 
2 
2 
1 
4 
9 
Cyanosis .... 
1 
1 
3 
1 
5 
Croup 
4 
6 
7 
10 
2 
4 
5 
38 
Diptheria 
11 
6 
6 
6 
7 
6 
47 
Debility 
1 
5 
2 
8 
" Adult 
9 
13 
8 
13 
1 
6 
9 
59 
' ' Infantile. 
11 
5 
2 
6 
1 
6 
2 
33 
Delirium Tremens 
1 
2 
2 
3 
5 
3 
16 
Diarrhoea-. . 
10 
15 
7 
6 
14 
37 
" Acute.. 
15 
11 
12 
3 
1 
2 
59 
" Chronic 
! 26 
9 
17 
3 
18 
10 
12 
6 
95 
Dropsy 
11 
9 
5 
6 
7 
44 
' ' in Chest. .. 
1 1 
1 
" in Abdomen 
2 
2 
' ' of Heart. 
1 
1 
Drowned 
8 
7 
7 
5 
2 
4 
1 
34 
Dysentery 
2 
7 
10 
15 
34 
" Acute ..' 
18 
19 
19 
12 
1 
1 
4 
74 
" Chronic 
9 
6 
11 
6 
9 
5 
9 
55 
Dyspepsia 
1 
1 
Empyemia ... ..... 
1 
1 
Enteritis 
13 
8 
5 
26 
Epilepsy 
1 5 
2 
1 
1 
9 
Entero-Colitis.... 
2 
6 
8 
5 
2 
2 
25 
Erysipelas ... 
o 
1 
2 
2 
7 
Eliphantiasis 
1 
1 
2 
Endo-Carditis 
1 
J 
2 
Exposure 
1 
1 
Fever _ 
4 
1 
2 
7 
' ' Bilious 
4 
8 
11 
14 
11 
8 
3 
59 
' ' Congestive 
19 
36 
37 
43 
22 
10 
8 
175 
" Continued. 
4 
1 
5 
' ' Gastric 
2 
2 
" Pernicious 
12 
9 
25 
31 
30 
10 
5 
132 
' ' Intermittent 
6 
7 
13 
12 7 
5 
6 
56 
" Brain 
8 
4 
5 
5 
1 
4 
27 
' ' Nervous 
1 
1 
1 
3 
" Panama 
* 
1 
1 
" Puerperal . 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
8 
" liemittent.. 
5 
2 
12 
12 
11 
3 
1 
46 
" Scarlet 
4 
3 
2 
2 
4 
2 
17 
' ' Typhoid 
12 
6 
12 
9 
14 
12 
12 
77 
' ' Typhus i 
1 
4 
2 
2 
3 
12 
" Yellow ' 
5 
56 
89 
31 
4 
185 
Fracture of Skull 
1 
1 
Gangrene - 
2 
1 
3 14 
MORTUARY REPORT-Continued. 
Diseases. 
June 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Total. 
Gangrene of Stomach 
1 
1 
" Leg 
4 
4 
" Lungs 
1 
1 
" Mouth 
2 
2 
Gastro-Enteritis 
11 
8 
12 
9 
11 
11 
8 
70 
Hoemorrhage.. 
1 
3 
2 
1 
3 
10 
" of Lungs, j 
3 
1 
1 
4 
1 
10 
" " Liver. 
1 
1 
" " Stomach . .... 
1 
1 
2 
" " Womb 
1 
1 
Heart, Disease of... 
7 
10 
5 
G 
4 
44 
'1 Enlargement of 
1 
1 
2 
Hepatitis.. 
4 
2 
7 
3 
17 
Hooping Cough 
12 
9 
4 
1 
4 
1 
1 
32 
Hydrocephalus 
6 
2 
3 
3 
1 
1 
1G 
Imperforate Anus 
1 
1 
Inflammation 
1 
1 
" of Bladder 
1 
1 
" " Brain 
3 
2 
J) 
3 
3 
4 
20 
" " Bowels 
7 
5 
4 
1 
2 
8 
27 
" " Heart 
1 
1 
" " Liver 
3 
4 
2 
2 
] 
12 
" " Lungs. 
1 
3 
1 
5 
" " Stomach 
5 
3 
1 
1 
10 
" << Throat 
1 
1 
Inanition 
2 
4 
1 
1 
8 
Injuries. 
2 
2 
4 
Intemperance 
1 
1 
1 
1 
4 
Intussuseption of Intestines... 
1 
1 
Jaundice 
1 
1 
2 
Kidneys, Disease of 
2 
1 
1 
4 
Killed accidentally. 
2 
1 
3 
G 
Killed 
7 
7 
4 
18 
Laryngitis 
1 
1 
2 
Labor, Difficult. 
1 
1 
2 
3 
1 
8 
Lightning, Killed by 
1 
1 
Liver, Disease of 
3 
1 
1 
3 
8 
Lockjaw 
7 
8 
4 
9 
2 
5 
6 
41 
Malformation 
1 
1 
2 
Mania Puerperal 
1 
1 
Malignant Bust, of Face 
1 
1 
Marasmus, Adult.. 
3 
4 
4 
G 
5 
3 
1 
2G 
" Infantile 
23 
19 
1G 
8 
14 
1G 
10 
10G 
Measles 
4 
3 
2 
9 
Meningitis 
7 
7 
8 
4 
10 
3 
44 
Old age 
3 
2 
3 
3 
2 
2 
9 
24 
Paalysis 
1 
1 
3 
1 
2 
2 
10 15 
MORTUARY REPORT-Continued. 
Diseases. 
June 
July 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Total. 
Peritonitis .. .. 
2 
4 
3 
2 
5 
19 
Pericarditis 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
6 
Pleurisy - .. 
1 
1 
1 
104 
Pneumonia. 
2G 
13 
7 
10 
16 
11 
21 
" Typhoid 
1 
1 
1 
1 
4 
Poison .. 
2 
1 
1 
5 
1 
1 
1 
7 
Premature birth 
9 
10 
5 
4 
8 
46 
Purpura. 
1 
2 
3 
Rheumatism. 
2 
2 
3 
1 
8 
St. Vitus' Dance 
1 
1 
Scrofula . 
2 
2 
3 
2 
1 
10 
Scurvy 
2 
1 
1 
4 
Small Pox 
15 
10 
5 
1 
1 
3 
6 
41 
Softening of Brain 
1 
1 
3 
2 
2 
2 
6 
17 
' ' Stomach .... 
1 
1 
2 
" Spinal column.... 
1 
1 
Spine, Disease of. 
1 
1 
2 
Stillborn 
35 
38 
50 
49 
32 
48 
47 
299 
Syphilis 
2 
2 
1 
Strangulated Hernia. 
1 
1 
2 
Salivation.. 
1 
1 
Suffocation 
1 
1 
2 
1 
5 
Suicide 
1 
2 
2 
1 
6 
Sunstroke .. 
9 
9 
4 
18 
Tabes Mesenterica 
2 
1 
1 
8 
Teething .. 
16 
9 
16 
15 
4 
4 
4 
68 
Tris. Nascentium 
24 
23 
48 
32 
34 
22 
47 
230 
Tumor of Back 
1 
1 
•' Neck 
1 
1 
" Chest 
1 
1 
Ulceration of Mouth 
2 
1 
3 
' ' Bowels 
1 
1 
2 
' ' Throat 
1 
1 
1 
2 
5 
Unknown 
16 
4 
9 
4 
7 
5 
15 
60 
Varioloid 
5 
2 
2 
1 
10 
Wounds 
1 
2 
2 
2 
1 
8 
' ' Gunshot 
2 
2 
2 
3 
9 
Not stated ... . .... 
49 
23 
38 
22 
4 
18 
6 
170 
Total 
729 
661 
1306 
1118 
759 
593 
539 
5705 16 
MORTUARY REPORT-Continued. 
June. 
July. 
August. 
Sept. 
Oct. | Nov. 
Dec. 
Total. 
Whites 
440 
792 
648 
553, 412 
382 
3,703 
Mulattoes 
78 
58 
97 
93 
731 53 
42 
494 
Blacks 
1421 
139 
358 
240 
119l 110 
105 
1,213 
Not stated 
33 
24 
59 
137 
14 18 
10 
295 
Total „ 
729. 
6«1 
l,30G 
1,118 
759 593 
539 
5,705 
COLOR. 
SEX. 
Males 
405 
393 
800, 
626 
451 
325 
315 
3.315 
Females.. 
292 
240 
475! 
409 
281 
238 
199 
2,134 
Not stated 
32 
28 
31 
83 
271 
30 
25 
256 
Total 
729' 
661 
i,30^ 
1,118 
759i 593 
539 
5,705 
agi-;s. 
Under 1 year 
185 
154 
172 
138 
129 
147 
147 
1,072 
1 to 2 years 
91 
57 
68 
27 
43 
33 
30 
'349 
2 to to 5 years 
53 
39 
63 
84 
44 
34 
22 
339 
5 to 10 years 
29 
17 
78 
51 
32 
17 
23 
247 
10 to 15 years 
13 
14 
46 
32 
17 
15 
9 
146 
15 to 20 years 
20 
21 
55 
45 
31 
16 
11 
199 
20 to 25 years 
34 
41 
117 
91 
56 
45 
26 
410 
25 to 30 years 
35 
40 
132 
109 
74 
31 
35 
456 
30 to 40 years 
67 
78 
212 
177 
106 
75 
62 
777 
40 to 50 years ... 
56 
75 
144 
121 
72 
51 
60 
579 
50 to 60 years 
45 
26 
78 
72 
63 
50 
39 
373 
60 to 70 years .. 
33 
29 
45 
60 
26 
29 
34 
256 
70 to 80 years 
16 
12 
19 
19 
9 
12 
13 
100 
80 to 90 years. 
5 
9 
5 
3 
5 
4 
5" 
. 29 
90 to 100 years. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
4 
12 
100 and upwards 
1 
3 
1 
1 
6 
Not stated 
46 
54 
67 
86 
50 
33 
19 
355 
729 
661 
i,306 
1,118^ 
759 
593 
539 
5,705 17 
MORTUARY REPORT-Continued. 
Countries. 
June 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept 
Got. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Total. 
Africa 
Austria 
British America 
Belgium 
Canada 
China 
Denmark 
England 
France 
Germany 
Holland. 
Ireland 
Italy 
2 
1 
1 
5 
9 
30 
7 
54 
4 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
8 
21 
39 
61 
7 
1 
3 
6 
2 
2 
1 
6 
22 
41 
87 
20 
127 
4 
1 
4 
4 
15 
47 
89 
135 
5 
1 
2 
2 
3 
22 
41 
73 
72 
3 
1 
3 
24 
41 
57 
6 
3 
1 
9 
20 
41 
65 
2 
7 
7 
9 
10 
14 
1 
9 
84 
203 
400 
27 
571 
27 
Mexico , 
Norway 
Portugal 
Prussia 
Russia 
Scotland 
Sea, at 
South America 
Spain 
Sardinia 
Sweden .. 
Switzerland 
United States. 
Unknown 
Wales 
West Indies 
Not Stated 
3 
1 
2 
1 
5 
1 
3 
437 
8 
155 
1 
1 
4 
4 
4 
1 
374 
4 
126 
1 
2 
11 
2 
2 
6 
1 
7 
626 
1 
2 
336 
1 
1 
2 
16 
5 
6 
1 
7 
559 
1 
4 
211 
1 
1 
1 
14 
1 
2 
5 
1 
1 
8 
365 
4 
1 
128 
1 
1 
6 
1 
6 
8 
3 
352 
9 
1 
73 
1 
3 
4 
10 
2 
291 
1 
1 
85 
7 
4 
8 
56 
5 
26 
1 
4 
44 
2 
31 
3,004 
23 
13 
1,104 
Total 
729 
661 
1,306 
1,118 
759 
593 
539 
5,705 
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