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. Corrected according to borough of residence. 276 47 429 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 15.20 24.49 23.95 733 112 16.21 16.73 ↑ 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. Cases of Infectious and Contagious Diseases Reported. Week Ending. Dec. Dec. Dec Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb Feb. Feb 7. 14. 21 28. 4. Tuberculosis... 452 394 365 332 2ས །â 338 342 367 355 367 II. 18. 25. I. 8. 15. 446 369 Diphtheria and Croup.. 317 Measles.. 276 274 412 Scarlet Fever. 459 473 552 777 833 333 291 325 380 Smallpox.... Chickenpox.... 2 149 268 Typhoid Fever Whooping Cough Cer.-Spinali Meningitis.. Total...... 1,482 1,495 1,636 1,436 1,534 1,991 1,933 1,991 2,127 1,790 1.773 2.090 2,462 2,509 48 29 91 263 148 411 321 15 59 36 87 22 17 26 3 257 271 Tuber culosis 2 339 10 *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. Boroughs Corrected Mortality Among Children, Week Ending March 8, 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. 21. 28 Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar. 1. 8. Total deaths Annual death rate........ Typhoid Fever.. Influenza. Meningitis. Tuberculosis Violent Deaths.. 1,420 1,333 481 1,403 1,519 1,512 1,546 1,461 1,440 1,568 1,732 1,836 1,699 1.723 14.32 13.44 14.93 14-15 14-75 14.68 15.01 14-19 13.98 15.23 16.82 17.83 16.50 16.73 Under one year. 237 177 Five to sixty-five Sixty-five years and over... ཝུ8ཅ¿ེ 199 325 791 782 783 284 272 244 295 492 586 318 256 233 234 298 257 383 363 357 393 458 451 845 819 272 279 608 571 553 604 637 689 203 185 181 244 240 209 273 Mean barometer. 30.02 29.96 29.81 29.93 29.69 30.16 30 19 30.04 29.84 29.91 30.01 29.89 29.81 29.95 Mean humidity.. 71.7 52.9 64.9 6.4 68. 74 6 719 66 7 63 I 56.7 52. 62.6 66.9 56 3 .72in 1335in 2 33in .72in. .78in .81 n .62in 3.06in .52in .40in. 1.37in 0 26in 33.4° 41.133.6 43.6 39.9° 41.9 41.° 39.4° 25.6° 27.0 40.0 33.7° 32.3 (Fahrenheit) perature 64 Minimum tem 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 Manhattan-Willard Parker Hospital, foot of East 16th Street. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant. LABORATORIES Diagnosis Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets. Telephone, 6280 Franklin. Research Laboratory. Chemical Laboratory. Vaccine Laboratory. Drug Laboratory. CLINICS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Manhattan-Gouverneur Slip. Telephone, 2916 Orchard. TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS Manhattan-West Side Clinic, 307 West 33d Street. Telephone, 3471 Murray Hill. 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. 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, 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 |