Deaths According to Cause, Age and Sex. 8 97 82 *If the deaths under one month, numbering 104, be deducted from the total deaths under one year. the resultant rate will be 69 per 1,000 births. weekly average of 1912. Corrected Mortality Among Children, Week Ending March 15, 1913. Includes Sniall 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 Dec. 14. Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar. Mar. 21. 28 +. 11. 18. 25. I. 8. 15. 22. 8. 15. 1,333 1,481 1,403 1,519 1,512 1,546 1,461 1,440 1,568 1,732 1,836 1,699 1,723 1,848 1. Total deaths... Annual death-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 17.94 rate...... Typhoid Fever.. ..... Scarlet Fever.... Whooping Cough Meningitis.) I 5 Cerebro-Spinal Tuberculosis Pulmonalis Violent Deaths.. 4 153 175 135 150 Broncho Pneu monia...... 76 13 141 279 782 861 Under one year. 177 272 783 309 295 492 215 231 180 Mean barometer. 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 29.93 ture (Fahr-33.4° 41.1° 33.6 43.6° 39.9° 41.9 41.° enheit). 64.9 66.4 68. 74.6 71 9 66.7 63 1 .72in 1335in 2.33in .72in. .78in .81in .62in 3.06in .52in.40in. 1.37in 0.26in 1.90in 56.7 52. 62.6 66.9 56.3 79. perature 46.° 151. 44. 59. 58. 63.° 60. 61.35 ° Fahrenheit) Maximum tem 27. 23 13. 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, 1200 Jamaica 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. 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. 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. 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 522-0-13 (B) 2000 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Report for Week Ending March 22, 1913. PROHIBITION OF THE USE OF "SOAP BARK" IN SODA WATER, ETC. The average person who drinks soda water, sarsaparilla, cream soda, root beer and other so-called "soft" drinks, probably imagines, if he gives any thought to the matter, that the creamy, deep foam which tops his glass results naturally from the liberation of the carbonic acid gas therein contained. Such, unfortunately, is frequently not the case; the foam, especially when deep, white and creamy, being sometimes produced artificially by the addition of a substance known as "soap bark," various preparations of which are upon the market. "Soap bark" is poisonous and markedly so, its toxic principle being sapotoxin. On this account, the Department of Health has determined to prohibit its use and henceforth if the cheaper grades of soda water, etc., do not present so attractive an appearance as heretofore they will, at least, exercise no detrimental effect upon the community. On March 17, Commissioner Lederle issued the following bulletin through the press: "It has come to the knowledge of the Department of Health that a preparation of soap bark (Saponine) is used quite commonly in this country in the preparation of soda water, in some kinds of "soft" drinks, and in fillings used by bakers. Soap bark contains a poisonous substance and this department considers the use of a soap bark extract or of commercial saponine in foods or food preparations in any quantity whatever an injurious adulteration and prohibits its use. "The Inspectors of Food will be instructed to notify food dealers of this determination of the department and any cases of its further use will be criminally prosecuted." This is the first of a series of official bulletins which the Commissioner plans to issue from time to time, defining the attitude of the Department of Health on specific food questions. LIABILITY OF RESTAURANT KLEPER FOR FURNISHING DELETERIOUS FOOD. Under this caption, the New York Law Journal of February 10, 1913, quotes some recent decisions and makes some editorial comments, as follows: In "The doctrine has been frequently laid down that a seller of provisions intended for human food impliedly warrants the soundness of the articles sold. The decisions to this effect apply the ordinary rule governing manufacture or sale for a particular purpose. On March 13, 1912, we contended that the principle so far as recognized at all should apply to the sale of articles of food for animals as well as men, although a distinction between the two classes of foodstuffs has been drawn in some cases. Wiedeman vs. Keller (58 Ill. App., 382), a case in which recovery for damages against the vendor of pork alleged to have been affected with trichina was denied, it was said in the opinion that there are many authorities holding that when the vendor has no notice, and could not by the exercise of reasonable or ordinary care, have ascertained the existence of the unwholesome or unsound condition, there is no implied warranty of the soundness of provisions not prepared or manufactured by the seller (Benjamin on Sales, secs. 670, 671, 672, note 17, page 629, Amer. ed. of 1888; Schouler on Personal Property, sec. 348; 10 Amer. and Eng. Ency, of Law, 155; Emmerton vs. Mathews, 7 Exchequer, 585; Craft vs. Parker, 96 Mich., 245; Buckingham vs. Plymouth Water Co., 142 Penn, 221; Wright vs. Hart, 18 Wend., 464; Moses vs. Mead, 1 Denio, 378). "Such limitation of liability should certainly be recognized with regard to restaurant keepers and it would seem that the Supreme Court of Louisiana went too far in Doyle vs. Fuerst & Kraemer (129 La., 838; 40 L. R. A., N. S., 480). It was held that 'the keeper of a public place where food is served is bound to know that the articles sold are fresh and fit for human consumption and is liable in damages for injury due to their vitiated and deleterious character.' The alleged injuries to plaintiff were sustained through ptomaine poisoning contracted from eating cakes and chocolate with whipped cream at defendant's confectionery establishment. In the course of the is remarked: |