EXTRACT FROM ORDINANCE ORDAINED AUGUST 27, 1874.

SECTION 5. ** * * It shall be unlawful for any undertaker or other person to remove from the city or inter within the city, the body of any person whatsoever, without having first procured from the Board of Health a permit, as required in Section 4, of the aforesaid ordinance, passed August 1, 1872. Any person violating the provisions hereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

PROSECUTIONS.

The prosecutions, amounting to seventeen, are divided as follows:

For failing to bury a corpse within eighteen hours after death (diphtheria) .
For holding public funeral where death was caused by diphtheria
Physicians failing to report contagious diseases within the time prescribed by
law

Agents and owners of premises failing to clean up when ordered to do so
Peddler for using false measure

For hauling a dead animal in an uncovered wagon

DEATH RATE.

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6

7

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I am satisfied that the death-rate given out has been entirely too high, and the estimate on the population has been incorrect, especially when we observe that the estimate on the population of the city has been placed at 100,000 since 1883, with no increase. Of course, absolutely correct figures can not be produced between the taking of each census; yet, to obviate this as much as possible, I asked the assistance of Augustus Murphy, Secretary of the R. L. Polk & Co. Directory Company. He gave me as the estimate gleaned from the city of 1887, 117,500, and also kindly assisted me in preparing the ratio of each year from 1880. Here is a comparative table of mortality from 1873 to 1888:

The death-rate of 1887 is 14.54 in 1,000. This is less than at any time since the organization of the Board of Health, and yet there has been an increase of population. The estimate excludes premature and still-births, as is the case with estimates with previous years.

MARRIAGES.

The whole number of marriages reported for the year ending September 30, 1887, is 18,073.

Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. June. July. Aug. Sept.

1886.

15 8

4 373 2

411

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2

20

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19

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