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clinic was established by the efforts of Miss Marjorie Clark, a former nurse of the Division of Child Hygiene, and has been maintained by funds donated and collected by the Honorable Peter T. Barlow. Its facilities were placed at the disposal of the Department of Health and the work has been of definite value.

The present dental staff is not sufficiently large to permit of any widespread efforts to correct the existing evils, but it will afford an opportunity to demonstrate the value of such a service. Only children whose parents are absolutely unable to pay a private dentist will be treated at these clinics and the children to be treated will be selected by the medical inspectors and nurses of the Division of Child Hygiene from those whose condition most urgently demands relief and where treatment promises the best results for the welfare of the child.

Decayed teeth exercises a decidedly deleterious influence upon the health of children. Unclean mouths predispose to contagious disease and decayed teeth result in improper mastication of food, which is followed by anemia and the evidences of malnutrition. Loss of school time on account of toothache is a common occurrence.

It is hoped that the dental clinics for school children will demonstrate their value and that the city may feel justified in increasing their number as a result of the work accomplished during the year.

VITAL STATISTICS

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

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429 58 17.72 17.83 17.87 13.55 14.83 12.95 15.71 16.17 16.26 12.48 13.05 15.51

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↑ 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.

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*If the deaths under one month, numbering 121 from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resultant rate will be 63 per 1,000 weekly average births of 1912.

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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.

Research Laboratory.

Chemical Laboratory. Vaccine Laboratory. Drug Laboratory.
Foot of East Sixteenth Street. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant.

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CLINICS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Manhattan-Gouverneur Slip. Telephone, 2916 Orchard.
Pleasant Avenue and 118th Street. Telephone, 972 Harlem.
Brooklyn-330 Throop Avenue. Telephone, 5319 Williamsburg.
124 Lawrence Street. Telephone, 5623 Main.
1249 Herkimer Street. Telephone, 2684 East New York.
The Bronx-580 East 169th Street. Telephone, 2558 Tremont.

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, 5584 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, 362 Bradford Street. 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, 440 Tompkins.

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-C-13 (B) 2000

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