Show death rate of new york fork horace greeley used to say that new york city was the most corruptly wastefully waste tully and inefficiently governed of any twenty square miles of this earths surface things are much better now but bad enough yet by its geology and location this should be among the healthiest cities in the world the natural drainage is splendid the tide sweeps a strong current by both shores twice a day and the iodized ionized sea air blows through ever every y street and alley all night yet this is almost it if not quite the sickliest sic kliest city in the world calcutta is the only large place with a larger death rate and cholera is there the year round new orleans occasionally has a larger death rate but never ot of whites alone mobile of both white and black shows a much lower mortality in chicago and cincinnati the deaths per 1000 average but 20 to the SO 30 in new york even in the terrible yellow fever years tile the mortality of the gulf cities rarely equals that of this city the cause is in i filth close as is they ti 1 ey are arc there is a very noticeable difference between the air of new york and that of brooklyn and it is believed with good reason that the proportion liere here is underrated from defective statistics in short including the tha dea deaths flig of children we are forced to admit that the average life of man here is shorter horter fc than in the inal arious regions of tile country shorter than on the hot mud banks of guiana or in the fever breeding jungles of Hin doostan J J 11 II beadle ic in a rockville tribune |