permitted or suffered to work unless an employment certificate shall have been obtained and subsequently filed in the office of the employer at the place of employment of such child. Not infrequently children who apply for employment certificates at the Department of Health are found, upon the physical examination required by the Labor Law, to be in poor physical condition because of anaemia and mulnutrition. In such cases, certificates are denied on the ground of physical incapacity. Every effort is at once made to get these children into proper physical condition and to fit them to assume their place in the mercantile world. Many of these cases can be remedied within a reasonable time by proper treatment and are referred to a school nurse who visits the home in order to instruct and advise the parents and to call their attention to the necessity of treatment. The nurse also points out the importance of contributory defects such as decayed teeth, enlarged tonsils and adenoids, which may also be present. Instruction is given as to hygiene, sanitation and the proper quality, quantity, preparation and preservation of food and, should the home conditions seem to preclude rapid improvement in the physical condition of the child. efforts are made to send it to some convalescent or Fresh Air Home for as long a period as possible. Several charitable organizations have given special attention to these cases at the request of the department and have kept the children at the various country homes as long as the regulations and facilities of the latter would permit, usually a period of from one to four weeks. At present, some of these organizations are further cooperating with the department by endeavoring, through special arrangements, to extend the period of stay for as long a time as may be necessary to put the child in good physical condition. Further assistance is given to these children by the New York Child Labor Committee, which, after an investigation of home conditions, grants a scholarship to worthy cases from a special fund and in amounts varying from $1.50 to $3 weekly pending the child's continuance at school. DEATH RATE FOR THE WEEK. There were 1.372 deaths and a death rate of 13.32 (per 1,000) of the population reported during the past week as against 1,420 deaths and a death rate of 14.32, a decrease in absolute figures of 48 deaths, equivalent to a relative one of 100 deaths and a decrease of one point in the rate. The following causes showed material decreases, scarlet fever, diphtheria and croup, whooping cough, typhoid fever, lobar pneumonia, broncho pneumonia, tubercu lous diseases other than pulmonary tuberculosis, and Bright's disease and nephritis. Those causes showing material increases were measles, organic heart disease and violence. Viewed from the point of age grouping, there were 44 less deaths of infants under one year of age, 9 less deaths between one and five years of age, 7 less deaths between the ages of five and sixty-five years; over the age of sixty-five years there was an increase of 12 deaths. The death rate for the first forty-nine weeks of the year was 13.76 as against 14.08 for the corresponding period in 1912. VITAL STATISTICS Summary for Week Ending Saturday, 12 M., December 6, 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. 1 Week Ending. 20 27. 4. Sept. Sept. Oct Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov Nov. Nov. Dec. I. Total. 52 72 8 303 214 19 155 74 75 10 4CI 38c 221 20J 198 85 374 304 386 436 78 392 389 160 147 171 179 2 1,386 1,274 1,386 1,349 1,254 1,199 1,686 1,236 1,496 1,744 1,356 1,628 torium. Deaths According to Cause, Age and Sex. If the deaths under one month, numbering 98, from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resultant rate will be 37 deaths of infants per 1,000 births (weekly average July 1, 1912, to July 1, 1913). Corrected Mortality Among Children, Week Ending December 6, 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. Inquest cases.... 182 152 194 164 205 224 181 172 200 215 Mean barometer. 30.06 30.01 30.08 29.98 29.73 30.01 29.86 29.85 29.89 30.07 29.83 29.98 30.13 29.97 Mean humidity.. 83. 62.7 72. 67.6 73. 86.3 64. 76.3 64. Inches of rain or snow.... Mean tempera ture (Fahr-71.9° 64.9° 61.0 63.7° 61.7 66.3° 56.7° 55.1° 52.7° 51.45.3° 52.4 44.1° 45-4° enheit).. Maximum tem perature 84. 86. 77.° 77.0 74. 77. 69.66.° 72. 65. 65° 2 (Fahrenheit) Minimum tem-) (Fahrenheit)) perature 61. 49. 45. 48.° 70.0 58.0 Week Ending- Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. | Oct. 6. 13. 20. 27. Oct Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov Nov. Dec. II. 18. 25. I. 8. 15. 22. 22. 6. 4. Total deaths.... 1,253 1,184 1,359 1,237 1,248 1,301 1,153 1,160 1,183 1,281 1,250 1,388 1,288 1.372 Annual death rate........ Typhoid Fever.. Small-pox Measles Scarlet Fever... Meningitis. 12.17 11.50 13.20 12.CI 12.12 12.63 11.20 11.26 11.49 12.44 12.14 13.48 12.51 13.32 12 17 10 2 I 19 26 20 14 I 4 4 2 I 3 4 143 138 122 140 149 4.15in .47in 1.18in 1.20in 5.28in 1.13in 1.00in 5.36in .20in .26in .62in .87in .41in 22 27 10 13 II 64 72 58 75 93 650 712 245 92 81 226 326 798 264 557 DIRECTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICES Headquarters: S. W. Corner Centre and Walker Streets, Borough of Manhattan Borough of The Bronx, 3731 Third Avenue. 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 LABORATORIES Telephone, 4400 Flatbush. 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. 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. Manhattan-Centre and Walker Streets. Week days, 9 to 10 a.m. TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS Manhattan-West Side Clinic, 307 West 33d Street. Telephone, 3471 Murray Hill. 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. 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. M. B. BROWN PRINTING & BINDING co. 49 TO 57 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK 522-L-13 (B) 2000 |