*If the deaths under one month, numbering 95, from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resultant rate will be 110 deaths of infants per 1,000 births (weekly average July 1, 1912 to July 1, 1913)

:

Boroughs

Corrected Mortality Among Children. Week Ending August 9, 1913.

• Includes Sniall Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Whooping Cough. Deaths According to Cause, Annual Rate per 1,000 and Age, with Meteorology and Number of Deaths in Public Institutions for 14 Weeks.

Week Ending

10.

7.

14

May May May May June June June June July July July July Aug Aug.
17. 24. 31.
21. 28. 5.
26.

12. 19

2

9

Total deaths.... 1,543 1,531 1,572 1,323 1,447 1,303 1,370 1,182 1,291 1,270 1,250 1,249 1.310 1.390 Annual death14.98 14.87 15.27 12.85 14.05 12.65 13.30 11.48 12.54 12.30 12.14 12.13 12.72 13 50

rate.......

Typhoid Fever..
Malarial Fevers
Small-pox
Measles

Scarlet Fever...

Whooping Cough
Diphtheria and
Croup....

29

10

9

34

40

22

12

Influenza.

I

Tuberculosis

Pulmonalis

184 200 198

13 20

13

100

106

222

432 383

268

429

868 712 747 691

272

629 543

615

Inquest cases

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50

40

76

94

70

121 137 40

229

392

220

237 201 218 182 178

149 151 152

156

99

209 345 381

417

666 637
195

482 505 625 ! 696

564 590 520 559 523 542 525

Mean barometer. 30.08 29.90 29.87 29.77 29.88 30.00 29.89 29.89 29.89 29.76 29.80 29.88 29.93 29 91

perature 82. 181. 71. 80. 84 90. 93. 87 95.. 91. 90.⚫

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Minimum tem

perature 39" Fahrenheit)

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DIRECTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

OFFICES

Headquarters: S. W. Corner Centre and Walker Streets, Borough of Manhattan
Telephone, 6280 Franklin.

Borough of The Bronx, 3731 Third Avenue.
Borough of Brooklyn, Flatbush Avenue and Willoughby Street..
Borough of Queens, 372-374 Fulton Street, Jamaica, L. I..
Borough of Richmond, 514-516 Bay Street, Stapleton, S. I....

Telephone, 1975 Tremont. Telephone, 4720 Main. .Telephone, 1200 Jamaica. .Telephone, 440 Tompkinsville

Office Hours-9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12 m.
HOSPITALS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant.

Manhattan-Willard Parker Hospital, foot of East 16th Street.
The Bronx-Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island. Telephone, 4000 Melrose.
Brooklyn-Kingston Avenue Hospital, Kingston Avenue and Fenimore Street. Telephone, 4400 Flatbush.
LABORATORIES

Diagnosis Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets.
Serological Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets.
Research Laboratory. Chemical Laboratory.

Telephone, 6280 Franklin.
Telephone, 6280 Franklin.
Vaccine Laboratory. Drug Laboratory.
Foot of East Sixteenth Street. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant.

CLINICS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
Hours: 2-5 p. m. Saturdays, 9-12 m

Manhattan-Gouverneur Slip. Telephone, 2916 Orchard.

Pleasant Avenue and 118th Street. Telephone, 972 Harlem.
164 Second Avenue. Telephone, 2081 Orchard.

449 East 121st Street. Telephone, 3230 Harlem.

P. S. 144 Hester and Allen Streets. Telephone, 5960 Orchard. Brooklyn-330 Throop Avenue. Telephone, 5379 Williamsburg. 124 Lawrence Street. Telephone, 5623 Main.

1249 Herkimer Street. Telephone, 2684 East New York.

The Bronx-580 East 169th Street. Telephone, 2558 Tremont.

Richmond-689 Bay Street. (Dental only). Telephone, 686 W. Tompkinsville.
DIAGNOSTIC CLINICS FOR VENEREAL DISEASES

Manhattan-Centre and Walker Streets. Weck days, 9 to 10 a.m.
307 West 33d Street. Wednesdays, 8 to 9 p.m.

TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS

Manhattan-West Side Clinic, 307 West 33d Street. Telephone, 3471 Murray Hill.
East Side Clinic, $1 Second Street. Telephone, 5586 Orchard.

Harlem Italian Clinic, 420 East 116th Street. Telephone, 2375 Harlem.

Southern Italian Clinic, 22 Van Dam Street. Telephone, 412 Spring.

Day Camp, Ferryboat "Middletown," foot of East 91st Street. Telephone, 2957 Lenox. The Bronx-Northern Clinic, St. Pauls Place and Third Avenue. Telephone, 1975 Tremont. Southern Clinic, 493 East 139th Street. Telephone, 5702 Melrose.

Brooklyn-Main Clinic, Fleet and Willoughby Streets. Telephone, 4720 Main.

Germantown Clinic, 55 Sumner Avenue. Telephone, 3228 Williamsburg.

Brownsville Clinic, 64 Pennsylvania Avenue. Telephone, 2732 East New York.

Eastern District Clinic, 306 South 5th Street, Williamsburg. Telephone, 1293 Williamsburg.
Day Camp, Ferryboat "Rutherford," foot of Fulton St. Tel., 1530 Main.

Queens-Jamaica Clinic, 10 Union Avenue, Jamaica. Telephone, 1386 Jamaica.

Richmond-Richmond (linic, Bay and Elizabeth Streets, Stapleton. Telephone, 1558 Tompkinsville. SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS

Otisville, Orange County, N. Y. (via Erie Railroad from Jersey City). Telephone, 13 Otisville. TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL ADMISSION BUREAU

Maintained by the Department of Health, the Department of Public Charities, and Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, 426 First Avenue. Telephone, 8667 Madison Square. Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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under the Act of August 24, 1912.

NEW SERIES. VOL. II.

AUGUST 16, 1913.

No. 33

NEW PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. A circular of the Department of Health describing the present procedure in the surveillance of diptheria, scarlet fever and measles, which is now being printed, will shortly be ready for delivery and distribution by the nurses and inspectors of the Division of Infectious Diseases to parents and guardians of children suffering from these diseases. In the meantime, in order that physicians, particularly, may take note of the changes in procedure, the circular is printed in this issue of the Weekly Bulletin. The most noteworthy changes in procedure which are indicated in the new circular are as follows:

1. Insusceptible persons (those who have had diphtheria, measles or scarlet fever), will not be excluded from school while a case of infectious disease still exists at home, providing isolation is being satisfactorily carried out.

2. Cases of measles will be terminated five (5) days after the appearance of the rash, provided such a course is warranted by the clinical condition of the case. The circular, as prepared for general distribution, will be printed on heavy buff cards, with brass-bound perforations at the top so that the card may be suspended for ready reference. These cards will be printed in English on one side and in either German, Italian or Yiddish on the other side. The circular will read as follows:

HOW TO KEEP FROM GETTING AND SPREADING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

Diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles are very contagious diseases, and are com municated by the patients, or by articles that have recently come in contact with them, especially in the case of diphtheria and scarlet fever.

These diseases must be considered contagious so long as patient is quarantined (kept away from the rest of the family) by the Department of Health.

The contagion is mainly carried by the discharges from the nose and mouth. To keep from getting these diseases you must keep away from patients who have them.

To keep from spreading these diseases, the sick person must be kept in one room to which no other persons are admitted except the doctor, nurse or attendants.