| Show HEALTH FUR FOR A YEAR health commissioner dalby has loom co plated and transmitted his annual re port to mayor dark clark it is a comprehensive and instructive document and calls attention among other things to the disadvantages under which th the department labored during the year ort on account of economical restrictions and 1 on account of the abolishing of the tf of flees of meat and food inspectors in the way of recommendations he e suggested that the water supply be carefully looked after and kept free from pollution that the water sources be guarded to prevent the befouling of the streams that the garbage of the city be properly collected and disposed of and that thal the extending of the sewer system was of more importance than any other city improvements save th the betterment of the water supply public buildings including the schools should be properly lighted ventilated and heated streets and alleys sprinkled and clea cleaned hed if the suggestions were carried into effect the city would be in IL a good sanitary condition and the community less liable to disease our city says the doctor in his report can now possibly claim tor for itself the lowest death rate of any city in III the united states and to the health department through its strict enforce ment of sanitary regulations much of this credit is due i reports were made to the department of 1170 births occurring in the city dur j ing the year together with mar biages of the births were males females and of six the sex was not 4 given there were 1057 births report s ed in 1896 being an increase over that 1 year of there were also reported during the 9 year from all causes deaths ot which were males and fei females ales s being at the rate per thousand of pop lation of of these deaths 79 os 1 charred from zy motle 93 from re spira 1 tory and 99 from constitutional causes 1 I old age claimed 57 consumption 44 1 cancer 23 and suicides 12 of the h s 79 deaths from causes typhoid S fever claimed 25 cholera in 20 1 diphtheria 7 and scarlet fever 5 A statement of the death rate from 1891 to is as follows year rate 1891 1163 28 1892 11 ll 1893 1087 1894 1895 1896 7 1897 there were cases of typhoid fa fever reported during the year as against in 1896 from january lot to junak there were but 9 cases and from broft july lot to december slot case of the total number occurred at august september and october ond on hundred and twenty cases occurred U fa families using city water 37 using flowing f I 1 wells and 6 were using surface wai waiter aj only 19 of the cases had sewer connections and were depending ow on t surface drainage the doctor is of the opinion that of the typhoid cases are due to co coa I 1 tamina laminated ted milk and ice sold in t th city in the cases there were IS 2 deaths as against 28 deaths in the TM cas cases es in 1896 there were cases of scarlet fever as agat against not in am and in 1895 the deaths being 9 5 6 and 8 for those years respectively ot or the cases were between august lot and december lot ast only fourteen cases were found in families hw ing sewer connections in only two ewt cases were the patients over 16 15 jews 1 old r |
