Boroughs.

Corrected Mortality Among Children, Week Ending October 25, 1913.

Includes Small 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.

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1,253 1,184 1,359

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18

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16

20

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Cerebro-Spinal

Meningitis. J

Tuberculosis
Pulmonalis
Other Tubercu-
lous...

Acute Bronchitis
Pneumonia...
Broncho Pneu-

monia....

Violent Deaths..

Mean barometer 29 88 29.93 29 91 29 99 29.99 29.86 30.06 30.01 30.08 29 98 29 73 30 01 29.86 29.85 Mean humidity. 61. 71. 68 00 65 4 62. 69.3 83. 62.7 72. 67.6 73. 85.3 64. 76.3 Inches of rain 1.17 in 3.64in 1.08in 0.13in .49in .18in 15in .47in 1.18in 1.20in 5.28in1 13in 1.00in 5.36in 61.0 63.7 61.7 66 3 56.7° 55.1°

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.
INFANTS' MILK STATIONS

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. Week 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, 81 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 Clinic, 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.

B. BROWN PRINTING & BINDING CO.

67 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK

522-J-18 (B) 2000

All communications relating to the publications of the Department of Health should be addressed to the Commissioner of Health, 149 Centre Street, New York

Entered as second-class matter May 7, 1913, at the post office at New York, N. Y.,
under the Act of August 24, 1912.

NEW SERIES. VOL. II.

NOVEMBER 1, 1913.

No. 44

PASTEURIZATION OF GRADE B MILK.

With the adoption by the Board of Health October 28 of a resolution which follows, and which requires that Grade B milk shall be pasteurized, the process of pasteurization will have been applied to all milk used in this city with the exception of Certified, Guaranteed, and Inspected milk of Grade A, buttermilk, condensed milk and certain milk products. The following is the full text of the resolution eliminating the class "Selected Milk-Raw" from Grade B:

"Resolved, That section 56a of the Sanitary Code be and the same is hereby amended to take effect on and after February 1, 1914, so as to read as follows: "Section 56a. All milk held, kept, offered for sale or sold and delivered in The City of New York shall be so held, kept, offered for sale or sold and delivered under either or any of the following grades or designations and under no other, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the Board of Health, namely:

"Grade A. For Infants and Children

"1. Certified or guaranteed milk.

"2. Inspected milk (raw).

"3. Selected milk (pasteurized).

"Grade B. For Adults

"Pasteurized milk.

"Grade C. For Cooking and Manufacturing Purposes Only—

"Condensed skimmed milk.

"Condensed or concentrated milk.

"The provisions of this section shall not apply to buttermilk or to milk products commonly known as Kumyss, Matzoon, Zoolak, dried milk or milk powder, or to other similar preparations, or to cream or modified milk."

IMPORTANT CHANGES AFFECTING GRADE B MILK.

At a meeting of the Board of Health of the Department of Health, held October 28, 1913, the following resolutions were adopted: