Borough

VITAL STATISTICS

Summary for Week Ending Saturday, 12 M., August 9, 1913.

Boroughs.

Corrected according to borough of residence.

The presence of several large institutions, the great majority of whose inmates are non-residents of the city, increases considerably the death-rate of this Borough Deaths by Principal Causes, According to Locality and Age.

NN Under 1 Year.

and Over | 65 Years

Total.

93 381 505 695 189

Cases of Infectious and Contagious Diseases Reported.

Week Ending. May May May May June June June June July July July July Aug. Aug.

10.

17. 24. 31.

7.

Total...... 3,029 2,769 2,904 2,517 2,817 2,344 2,333 2,024 1.360 1,413 1,300 1099 1,021

rected,

1913.

*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)

7

:

3

66

100

:

Boroughs

Corrected Mortality Among Children. Week Ending August 9, 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.

Week Ending May May May May June June June June July July July July Aug Aug. 17. 24. 31.

10.

7. 14

21. 28.

5.

12. 19

26.

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 deathrate........

} 14.98 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

Typhoid Fever..
Malarial Fevers.
Small-pox

Measles

Scarlet Fever..

Whooping Cough
Diphtheria and

Croup..

Influenza

Cerebro-Spinal

Meningitis.

10

12

12

*

19

14

12

2

I

5

5

6

2

Tuberculosis

Pulmonalis

184

Under one year

282

Under five years

461

Five to sixty-five

837 863 $68

712

747 691

Sixty-five years) 245 220 and over...)

28

27

12

5

66

64

121

137

76

99

201 154 203 228 174 176 200 207

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 Mean humidity.. 58 3 55.7 70 9 66.7 69 4 73.9 57 9 63.4 65.4 60. 59. 61. 71. ,68 oc .08in 2.25in'.62in. .56in 1.34in .08in .67in .63in .45 in. 1.17 in 3 64in, 1.08 n

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

Manhattan-Willard Parker Hospital, foot of East 16th Street. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant.
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.

Telephone, 6280 Franklin.

Serological Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets. Telephone, 6280 Franklin.
Chemical Laboratory.

Research Laboratory.

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 Cliric, 420 East 116th Street. Telephone, 2375 Harlem.

Southern Italian (linic, 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 Chic, 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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