milk now designated as 'Grade-B-Raw.'

The adoption of such a requirement would mean that all milk sold in New York, excepting Grade A milk, would require to be pasteurized.

"In the meantime the advice to the public which the Department has given on so many occasions, is again repeated, and all citizens of New York should realize that the only way to be insured against disease transmitted through milk, is, to use only Grade A milk, or milk which has been pasteurized, or brought to the boiling point."

DEATH RATE FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 27, 1913.

There were 1,237 deaths and a rate of 12.01 per 1,000 population reported during the week just past, as against 1,194 deaths and a rate of 12.04 during the corre sponding week of 1912, an increase of 43 deaths and a decrease of .03 of a point in the rate, which is equivalent to an actual decrease of 3 deaths, if the increase in population be taken into consideration.

The number of deaths from measles and scarlet fever was so small as to be almost negligible. There were 14 deaths reported from diphtheria, an increase of 2, and 11 deaths from whooping cough, an increase of 4 over the figures of last year. The typhoid fever mortality showed an increase from 7 deaths in the week ending September 28, 1912, to 14 deaths in the week just past. On the other hand, the Borough of Brooklyn showed a decrease from 12 deaths to 2 deaths, more than offsetting the increased mortality in the Borough of Manhattan. The number of deaths from this cause reported in the entire City during the week was 20 as against 22 in the corresponding week of last year. The mortality from the diarrhoeal diseases was considerably below that of last year, the deaths reported numbering 109 under five years of age as against 169, a decrease of 55 per cent. Organic heart dis eases showed an increase of 33 deaths, pneumonia 26 deaths, Bright's disease and nephritis 18 deaths, pulmonary tuberculosis 6 deaths.

There were 10 fewer deaths reported of children under one year of age, and 22 fewer deaths of children between the ages of one and five years. To offset this decreased mortality there were 41 more deaths reported between the ages of five and sixty-five, and 34 more deaths at sixty-five years and over.

The causes showing increases were those found in adult and advanced life.

The death rate for the first thirty-nine weeks of the year 1913 was 14.15 per thousand as against 14.37 during the corresponding period of 1912, a decrease of 22 of a point.

VITAL STATISTICS

Summary for Week Ending Saturday, 12 M., September 27, 1913.

*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.

Total....

52 1 132

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Corrected Mortality Among Children. Week Ending October 4, 1913.

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Total deaths.... 1,291 1,270 1,250 1,249 1,310 1,390 1,250 1,324 1,274 1,253 1,184 1,359

1,237 1,248

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Mean barometer. 29.89 29.76 29.80 29.88 29.93 29.91 29.99 29.99 29.86 30.06 30.01 30.08 29 98 29.73 Mean humidity.. 65.4 60. 59. 61. 71. 68 00 65.4 62. 69.3 83. 62.7 72. 67.6 73. Inches of rain .67in .63in .45 in. 1.17 in 3.64in 1.08in 0.13in .49in .18in 4.15in .47in 1. 18in 1.20in 5. 28in

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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

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.
Research Laboratory. Chemical Laboratory. Vaccine Laboratory. Drug Laboratory.
Foot of East Sixteenth Street. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant.
INFANTS' MILK STATIONS
Manhattan

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.

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