If the deaths under one month, numbering 90, from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resultant rate will be 54 deaths of infants per 1,000 births (weekly average July 1, 1912 to July 1, 1913). Corrected Mortality Among Children, Week Ending October 11, 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. Week Ending July July July Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. 12. 19. 26. 2 9 16. 23. 30. 6. 13. 20. 27. 4. Total deaths.... 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 1,301 Measles Annual death rate........ Scarlet Fever.. Whooping Cough Diphtheria and Croup. Influenza.. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. 12 23 Η = 12 6 7 14 20 21 27 I I 5 2 Tuberculosis Pulmonalis 159 149 151 Under one year. Sixty-five years 182 178 and over... In Institutions... 523 542 525 550 578 539 527 Inquest cases.... 228 174 176 200 207 212 208 194 Mean humidity.. 60. 59. 61. 71. 168.00 65.4 62. 69.3 83. 62.7 72. 67.6 73. 85.3 Inches of rain or snow.... Mean tempera + .63in .45 in. 1.17 in 3.64in 1.08in 0.13in .49in .18in 4.15in .47in 1. 18in 1.20in. 5.28in1 13in ture (Fahr-73.6° 75.9° 75.° 77.3° 74.9° 72.9 75.1 72.7 71.9° 64.9 61.0 63.7 61.766 3 340 350 323 327 326 309 505 463 482 443 433 412 389 634 647 642 625 593 727 195 179 243 569 182 152 194 164 205 224 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. Office Hours-9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12 m. Telephone, 1600 Stuyvesant. Manhattan-Willard Parker Hospital, foot of East 16th Street. Diagnosis Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets. Telephone, 4400 Flatbush. Telephone, 6280 Franklin. Drug Laboratory. The Bronx-1. 511 East 149th Street. 2. 1354 Webster Avenue. Richmond-1. 689 Bay Street, Stapleton, S. I. CLINICS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN 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. 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 00. 49 TO 67 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK 522-J-18 (B) 2000 All communications relating to the publications of the Department of Health should be addressed to the Commissioner of Health, 149 Centre Street, New York Entered as second-class matter May 7, 1913, at the post office at New York, N. Y., NEW SERIES. VOL. II. OCTOBER 18, 1913. No. 42 PROGRESS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASES. It is gratifying to know that the plans for the administrative control of the venereal diseases, developed in this city by Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, have again received favorable indorsement. At the recent International Medical Congress held in London, the following resolution was adopted: That, sensible of the ravages wrought by syphilis in the community and deploring the inadequacy of existing facilities for the checking of its dissemination, the International Medical Congress calls on the governments of all the countries here represented (1) to institute a system of confidential notification of the disease to a sanitary authority where such notification does not already obtain, and (2) to make systematic provision for the diagnosis and treatment of all cases of syphilis not otherwise provided for. Similar action has been taken in this country. At the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, held in Colorado Springs in September, following a paper by Dr. Bolduan on "The Relation of the Public Health Authorities to the Venereal Diseases," resolutions practically identical with those just noted were unanimously passed by the Association. Judging by the extent to which physicians are making use of the Wassermann Laboratory, recently established by the Department of Health, and also by the increasing attendance at the Diagnostic Clinics, there is reason to believe that we shall soon have as well organized and as effective supervision of the venereal diseases as we have at present of tuberculosis. In this connection it is also gratifying to note that many physicians are reporting their cases of venereal diseases. Thus in the period from January 1 to October 1, 1913, the following cases were reported: |