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sale of raw milk in New York City to milk which conforms to the requirements of Grade A. Only milk produced under exceptionally stringent requirements as to cleanliness can now be sold in the raw state.

The requirement relating to the sale of milk for consumption on the premises, which is to take effect immediately, is a matter which particularly concerns the patrons of restaurants, hotels and lunch counters as well as the proprietors of these places. Hereafter when a glass of milk is purchased at a restaurant, hotel, lunch counter, milk booth or any similar place the purchaser may know that the law requires that this milk should be pasteurized unless it is Grade A milk. This grade includes certified milk, guaranteed milk and inspected milk which has been pasteurized.

A study of the cases of typhoid fever which occurred east of Broadway and south of 40th st. during September indicated to the Department beyond any reasonable doubt that a certain supply of Grade B raw milk was the means of transmitting the infection in a large number of the cases, and raw milk has therefore been eliminated from Grade B. This action should be considered as the latest step in the execution of a carefully developed program under which the Department of Health for the last four years has endeavored gradually to bring about the pasteurization of the entire supply of general market milk of New York City. Commissioner Lederle has repeatedly expressed the opinion that under the present conditions of production and consumption of the milk supply of New York City, the only means of insuring safety from the transmission of infection while keeping down the price of milk was to adopt the requirement of pasteurization on a large scale. By the adoption of the grading system and by increasingly stringent regulations the Department in the last four years has been able to raise the proportion of pasteurized milk to the total supply of New York City from 7 per cent. to 75 per cent. At the present time, out of a total average daily supply of 2.000.000 quarts of liquid milk it is estimated by the Department that an average of 1,500,000 quarts is pasteurized. The adoption of the latest regulation requiring the paseurization of all except the highest special grades of milk (which constitute an almost negligible percentage of the total supply) wil mean that practically all milk sold in the City after February 1, 1914, must be pasteurized.

SUMMARY FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 8, 1913.

There were 1,281 deaths and a rate of 12.44 per 1,000 of the population reported during the past week as against 1.302 deaths and a rate of 13.13 for the corresponding week of 1912, an absolute decrease of 21 deaths and a relative decrease of 71 deaths.

The figures showing the deaths from contagious and infectious diseases varied very little compared with those of last year. There were 47 deaths all told reported from measles, scarlet fever. diphtheria and croup, whooping cough and typhoid fever. as compared with 38 deaths during the corresponding week of 1912. The deaths from the acute respiratory diseases amounted to 152 against 174, a decrease of 22 deaths. There were 140 deaths reported from pulmonary tuberculosis as against 135. There were 295 deaths reported from organic heart and kidney diseases combined as against 294. There were 114 deaths reported from violence as against 94 deaths, an increase of 20 deaths.

Viewed from the point of age grouping, there were exactly the same number (231) of deaths of infants under one year of age in the two weeks under comparison. There were 324 children died under five years of age as against 332. There were 245 deaths reported of old people as against 253.

The death rate for the first forty-five weeks of 1913 was 13.84 per 1000 as against 14.15 for the corresponding period of 1912,

VITAL STATISTICS

Summary for Week Ending Saturday, 12 M., November 8, 1913.

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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.
LABORATORIES

Telephone, 4400 Flatbush.

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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 (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.

M. B. BROWN PRINTING & BINDING CO.

49 TO 57 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK

522-K-13 (B) 2000

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