Corrected Mortality Among Children. Week Ending November 29, 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. Mean barometer. 29.86 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 Mean humidity.. 69.3 83. 62.7 72. 67.6 73. 86.3 64. 76.3 64. 637 50. 75 3 69. Inches of rain .18in 4.15in .47in 1.18in 1.20in 5.28in 1.13in 1.00in 3.36in .20in .25in .62in .87in .41in or snow.... Mean tempera ture (Fahr- 72.7° 71.90 64.9 61.0 63.7° 61.7 663 56.7° 55.1° 52.7° 51.9 15 3° 52.4 44.1° enheit)..... Maximum temperature (Fahrenheit) о 84. 84. 86.° 77.° 77.° 74 77. 69. 166.° 72. 65. 65 Minimum tem- 2. 70.0 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. Diagnosis Laboratory, Centre and Walker Streets. Telephone, 6280 Franklin. 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. H. B. BROWN PRINTING & BINDING co. 49 TO 67 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK 522-K-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. DECEMBER 6, 1913. No. 49 SMOKE ORDINANCE UPHELD. The constitutionality of the smoke ordinance of New York City, section 181 of the Sanitary Code of the Board of Health, is upheld by the unanimous decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court which was handed down on December 5, 1913. The lengthy opinion, prepared by Judge Frank C. Laughlin, was concurred in by Judges Ingraham, Clarke, Scott and McLaughlin. Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, Commissioner of Health, in commenting on the decision, gave emphatic warning that the Department of Health would immediately resume vigorous prosecution of corporations and individuals guilty of permitting the escape of dense smoke in violation of the code. He stated that wherever laxity in the management of furnaces has crept in since the recent decision of the Court of Special Sessions which held the ordinance unconstitutional, immediate steps must again be taken to prevent the discharge of dense smoke or else the offenders would feel the strong arm of the law backed up by the important decision of the Appellate Division. The case decided by the Appellate Division arose out of some twenty-eight separate actions commenced by the Department of Health against the New York Edison Company for the discharge of dense smoke from its plant at 39th st. and East River. These actions, begun in the Magistrates' Courts, came before the Court of Special Sessions on demurrer. In June, the Court of Special Sessions, in an opinion rendered by Chief Justice Russell, held that section 181 of the Sanitary Code, in so far as it prohibited the discharge of dense smoke, was unreasonable and therefore unconstitutional. Since the decision of the Court of Special Sessions the smoke nuisance, according to Commissioner Lederle, has materially increased in New York City. All that the Department of Health could do was to prosecute small offenders where the engineers and firemen could be held personally responsible. Such cases could be disposed of by the Magistrates' Courts on the theory that the decision of the Court of Special Sessions did not bind the magistrates, since appeal from these courts lies to the Court of General Sessions. No actions could be brought against corporations, however, since the magistrates had no jurisdiction to try such cases, which are referred to the Court of Special Sessions. Although under this plan most of the magistrates upheld the view of the Department of Health and fined the defendants, the nuisance increased because the corporations were, for the time being, beyond the reach of the law. In the meantime, an appeal was taken from the decision of the Court of Special Sessions and urged with all proper expedition before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court by the representatives of the City's Law Department, Messrs. Herman Stiefel, William J. Millard, Terence Farley and William C. Mayer. The decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upholding the ordinance is the result and it signalizes the immediate resumption of the campaign against the smoke nuisance in New York. EDISON COMPANY FINED FOR DISCHARGE OF CINDERS. In addition to the action brought against the Edison Company for the discharge of dense smoke, in June a number of cases were instituted against the same company for violation of section 96 of the Sanitary Code in discharging cinders from their plant at 39th st. and East River to the detriment and annoyance of a number of persons living in the neighborhood. These cases came on for trial during November last and a considerable amount of testimony was taken. Property owners in the neighborhood testified that cinders entered their windows, clogged their house drains and leaders and otherwise affected them and their property. The Court found the Edison Company guilty, imposed a fine of $500 and dismissed the other actions, holding that but one penalty could be recovered for the offense charged. EXPECTORATION FROM ELEVATED CAR WINDOWS. Spitting in public places is insanitary and in certain cases dangerous to the community. It is prohibited by section 178 of the Sanitary Code, the provisions of which are very generally upheld by public opinion, and it can be confidently stated that the publicity from time to time given to this section by arrests for its violation has caused a very considerable diminution in what was at one time an exceedingly common practice. Occasionally, however, as in the case which follows, the department fails to secure the punishment of the offender. In this instance, the violation was of that portion of the section which prohibits spitting into the streets from the cars, stairs or platforms of the elevated railroads. An officer in uniform, one of the Sanitary Squad of the department, while riding in a Third ave. elevated train, noticed a man spitting from the car window into the street. He was cautioned not to repeat the offense. He then continued to spit in a newspaper and later again expectorated from the car window. He was thereupon served with a police summons. When the case was presented in the Magistrates' Court, however, the judge stated that he considered the arrest ridiculous and the offender was discharged. The records of the department show that the man was suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs in the third stage, and that his sputum, previously examined by the department, contained tubercle bacilli. PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS OF DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS. The photographic machine installed in the Bureau of Records for the purpose of issuing photographic copies of the records instead of the typewritten or hand written transcripts issued heretofore has fully proven that the method is not only practical, but a big improvement on the old method employed. A number of amusing complaints have been received because of the alleged gloomy appearance of the certificates. One clergyman secured photographic copies of several marriage certificates that he had filed with the department, and when he presented them to the married couples they were refused because "they looked more like death certificates than marriage certificates." On the other hand, the insurance companies and banks have expressed themselves as greatly pleased with the innovation, because they realize that the new copies are absolutely accurate and that there is no possibility of the transcript being altered between the time it leaves this department and is presented to them. TREATMENT OF MALNUTRITION IN APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATES. Articles 6 and 11 of the Labor Law specify that no child under the age of 14 shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any factory or business and that no child between the ages of 14 and 16 years shall be so employed, |