Boroughs. Corrected Mortality Among Children. Week Ending September 13, 1913. Manhattan. Brooklyn.... Richmond 8 186.I 03332 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 June June June July July July July Aug. Aug. | Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept Sept. Annual death- Typhoid Fever.. 1,390 1,250 1.324 1,274 1,253 1,184 12.65 13.30 11.48 12.54 12.30 12.14 12.13 12.72 13.50 2 =: 5::0 32.5 3 346 12 142 3 19 5 2 I 13 10 16 46 18 9 16 16 I I I I 34 40 55 99 13 27 25 29 8 7 2 44 34 34 39 110 323 327 482 443 433 412 637 625 696 634 647 642 625 593 153 189 195 189 350 326 195 179 539 527 573 544 498 207 212 208 194 182 152 62. Mean barometer. 30.00 29 89 29.89 29.89 29.76 29.80 29.88 29.93 29.91 29.99 29.99 29.86 30.06 30.01 Mean humidity.. 57.9 63 4 73.9 65.4 60. 59. 61. 171. 68 00 65 4 1.34in .08in .67in .63in .45 in. 1.17 in 3.64in 1.08in 0.13in .49in 09.3 83. 62.7 .18in 4.15in .47in 65. 72.9° 73 4 79.° 73.6° 75.9° 75.° 77-3° 74.9 72.9 75 1 72 7° 71.9° 64.92 93.° (Fahrenheit) Minimum tem 84. 84- 86. (Fahrenheit) perature 49. 59. 62. £6.° DIRECTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICES Headquarters: S. W. Corner Centre and Walker Streets, Borough of Manhattan Borough of The Bronx. 3731 Third Avesne Borough Borough beens, 372-374 Fulton Street, Jamatta, L. L. Richmond, 614-512 Bay Street, Stapleton, S. L.. 1975 Tremont. ne, 4720 MA hope, 1200 *amica. phone, 440 Tompansville Cce Hours 9 am to 5pm; Saturdays, 9 am to 12 m. Manhattan-Willard Parker Hospital foot of East 16th Street, Telephone, 1600 Stayvesant. 400 Melrose. Brooklyn Kingston Avenue Hospital, Kingston Avenue and Fenimore Street. Telephone, 4400 Flatbush. Diagnosis Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets. Telephone, 6280 Bracklis Research Laboratory. CLINICS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Manhattan-Gouverneur Slip. Telephone, 2916 Orchard. Pleasant Avenue and 118th Street. Telephone, 972 Harlem. P. S. 144 Hester and Allen Streets. Telephone, 5960 Orchard. 1249 Herkimer Street. Telephone, 2684 East New York. The Bronx-550 East 169th Street. Telephone, 2558 Tremont. Richmond-689 Bay Street. (Dental only). Telephone, 686 W. Tompkinsville. TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS Manhattan-West Side Clinic, 307 West 33d Street. Telephone, 3471 Murray Hill. Telephone, 2957 Lenox. Harlem Italian Clinic, 420 East 116th Street. Telephone, 2375 Harlem. Brownsville Clinic, 64 Pennsylvania Avenue. Telephone, 2732 East New York. Eastern District Clinic, 306 Scuth 5th Street, Williamsburg. Telephone. 1293 Williamsburg, 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, S667 Madison Square. Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M. B. BROWN PRINTING & BINDING CO. 49 TO 57 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK 522-1-13 (B) 2000 from the city, and since September 4 milk derived from this source has been pasteurized. Investigation revealed the history of a number of cases of typhoid fever at a particular dairy farm and in the vicinity during the past three years, and an inspector is at present obtaining specimens of blood and feces from all possible sources of infection. Since the pasteurization of the suspected milk supply, no cases have occurred which were not presumably infected prior to that date, and the department feels that the outlook is promising and that it has the situation well in hand. The following table shows the occurrence of typhoid fever during 1912 and 1913 in the affected districts arranged by wards, and also the normal average for the past five *This has not been counted in the total. As showing the localized character of the present epidemic, it may be remarked that the number of cases of typhoid fever occurring in the Borough of Brooklyn has been markedly below the average. The subjoined table gives the number of cases in that borough during 1912 and 1913, by weeks, from August 2 to September 13, inclusive, and also the average number of cases for the corresponding weeks for the past five years: ious. PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS (HEAD LICE) AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN. Attention is called to the fact that the eradication of pediculosis from among 1ool children in New York City is rendered extremely difficult because of the gratory character of our population, and because of the constant influx of immition, which cause the process of education and of eradication to be ever conWhile for the past four years the number of cases of pediculosis capitis ong public school children has remained practically the same, there has been eneral decline in the number of cases excluded from school for this cause, exsion now taking place only when living pediculi are found, when the case is an ravated one, or when persistent neglect of treatment exists. Particular attention alled to the improvement in the character of our cases, due to the disappearance hose with pronounced dermatitis, glandular enlargements, suppuration and scalp esses. It is also the case that while the number and percentage of several comicable diseases of the scalp, skin and eyes have declined very noticeably during years 1909-1912, the number and percentage of cases of pediculosis have remained tically stationary. Various reasons are given for this fact, among them the |