Calendar year.

Calendar year.

TABLE 30.-Showing rainfall in the District of Columbia, by months and years, during ten calendar years, from 1896 to 1905, inclusive.

TABLE 31.-Showing the mean temperature in the District of Columbia, by months and years, during ten calendar years, from 1896 to 1905, inclusive.

June.

TABLE 32.-Showing the mean relative humidity in the District of Columbia, by months and years, during ten calendar years, from 1896 to 1905, inclusive.

1896

1897

69.4 67.0 67.0 65.5 72.7 75.4 76.0
70.6 79.5 73.5 60.0

69.3

1898

72.4 68.9 73.7 62.9

1899

78.0
70.0

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

74.8 77.7 78.0 66.2 73.0 79.8 75.7 72.2 77.9 73.8 60.0 71.8 75.2 81.3 79.5 83.3 78.1 68.9 71.7 69.9 62.4 56.7 60.3 74.2 69.0 73.0 76.0 84.6 73.0 71.7 69.2 54.6 65.7 66.5 75.4 75.2 78.5 82.6 82.0 74.8 63.4 74.9 66.0 66.0 73.0 61.6 72.6 64.7 70.5 73.0 92.0 80.1 78.3 75.7 74.5 71.0 83.0 74.0 73.0 81.0 74.0 83.0 79.0 79.0 74.0 68.0 72.6 63.0 74.8 64.0 65.6 78.0 76.7 77.7 81.6 76.2 71.5 74.0 69.0 65.0 68.0 66.8 70.6 73.6 82.2 82.0 82.0 78.0 54.0

INDEX.

A.

Abatement of nuisances, cost of, assessed against property.
Abattoir and stock-yard inspection

Abortion..

Accidental drowning.

Accidental poisoning.

Accidents:

Accidental traumatisms

Deaths from...

Of labor..

239, 258, 259, and folders after
241, 262, 263, and folders after
241, 262, 263, and folders after
241, 263, 264, and folders after

Page.

39

70

267

267

267

267

Alcohol, samples of whisky examined for wood

Method used in discussion of.

Steam and street railroads, deaths and death rates, ten years.

Steam railroad, deaths and death rates

Steam railroad, death rates in.....

Street railroad, deaths and death rates.
Street railroad, death rate in.

Acetic acid, found in vinegar...

Adrenaline chloride, smallpox treated with
Adulterated cream, prosecutions for sale of.

Adulterated milk, prosecutions for sale of..
Age at death:

Average

Discussion of..

Age, mortality in relation to.

Alcoholism.

Ale, analysis of samples of .

Alley and street death rates by-

Age periods and by race

Alleys:

Conversion of, into minor streets.

Into minor streets, authority of Commissioners to convert.

42, 43

Into minor streets, recommendations of health officer relative to conver-
sion of...

Analyses of samples of ale, beer, buckwheat flour, candy, chickens, cider, ice,

ice cream, lard, olive oil, razor strops, rye whisky, soda water, vinegar.. 63-67

Page.

Apoplexy, deaths and death rates

18

Appendix A.-Report of inspector in charge of contagious-disease service
B.-Report of the chemist.

51-60

61-67

C.-Report of inspector of live stock and dairy farms

69-72

D.-Report of smoke inspector

73-74

spection service....

H.-List of physicians entitled to practice medicine

Asylums, street death rates influenced by deaths in

Average age of decedents, comparison of 1904 and 1905

E.-Statement of work done in the general sanitary and food in-

F.-Medical inspection of public schools.

G.-Laws and regulations relating to public health in the District of
Columbia in force January 5, 1907....

Appropriations for hospital for indigent consumptives
Arsenic found in stomach..

Arterio sclerosis, deaths and death rates

75-79

79,80

81-201

225-229

32

67

18

16

10

Average annual death rates (10 years) in certain specified diseases..
Average daily mortality, by months, with reference to race and age.

Bacteriologist, relation of the, to public health

Barber shops, inspection of.

Barometer, daily condition of

Barracks, Washington, typhoid fever among soldiers in.

Bathing beach, analysis of water taken from

Beer, analysis of samples of.

Benning abattoir:

Improved during the year.

Slaughtering at.

Benzoate of soda, found in cider (used as a preservative).

Bill passed House of Representatives, to prevent the spread of minor conta-
gious diseases

Births and infant mortality from 1896 to 1905, tabular statement of.

Births:

Illegitimate.

Illegitimate, number reported..

In institutions..

Number of transcripts of records of.

Percentage of deaths under 1 year of age.

Percentage of white and colored, illegitimate.

Premature.

Reported-

Death rate under 1 year based on..

Number of white and colored..

Birth registration, reasons for increased.

Birth returns, discussion of

240, 260, 261, and folders after

Blood and seminal stains, examinations made for.

Bodies, dead, legislation needed to regulate transportation of.
legislation recommended relative to the disposal of.

Boiler scales, analysis of samples of.

Box privies:

Abolished, number of..

As a source of infection in typhoid

Brain, softening of the, deaths and death rates

Bright's disease, deaths and death rates..

Bronchitis, deaths in streets and alleys from

Bronchitis, pneumonia and congestion of the lungs (ten years) Table 23....
Buckwheat flour:

28, 29

Calves, slaughtered under inspection, number of..
Cancers and other malignant growths (ten years).
Cancers and other malignant tumors..

70

234, 235,

246, 247, 248, 249, and folders after 267
Cancers, deaths from, arranged with reference to organ involved and age of
decedent..

334

64

70

71

8

24

322

235, 236, 237, and folders after

267

61-67

329

Erroneously diagnosed, responsible for smallpox outbreak.

Chickens, drawn and undrawn, comparative rapidity of decomposition of.... 64, 65

Childbirth and infancy, effect of diseases of, on colored people.

Children under two years of, diarrheal diseases of.

Cholera, hog, not appeared in District of Columbia..

Cider:

folder 12 after 267

21, 22

Congestion of lungs, pneumonia and bronchitis (10 years) Table 23.
Consumption. (See Phthisis.)

Consumptives, indigent, appropriation for hospital for

Contagious-disease service, report of inspector in charge of, Appendix A..
Contagious diseases among animals in District of Columbia..
Contagious diseases, minor, bill to restrict the spread of..

12, 13

237

51-60

71, 72

Contents, table of

Coroner, chemical examinations made for..

Corpses, existing regulations relative to transportation of, too severe

Cough, whooping..

Cows, causes of condemnation of

condemned as unfit for dairy purposes, number of
on dairy farms in District of Columbia, number of.

Cream, analysis of samples of

evaporated, analysis of samples of.

prosecutions for sale of adulterated

Page.

5

67

35

233, 244, 245, and folders after

267

69

69

69

62

67

63

34

322

35

Crematorium, public, passage of an act to establish a....
Crematory, number of incinerations in....

Crime, by transportation of dead bodies, possible to conceal evidences of.....

Cultures, percentage of diphtheria bacillus found in primary
taken, number of..

Daily mortality by months, with reference to race and age.
Dairy and dairy farms inspection.

Dairy farms, analysis of water from..

and dairies, summary of register of permits to maintain.
in District of Columbia, number of......

inspectors, extent of territory covered by.
inspectors, territory covered by

number of.

permits, authority to temporarily suspend
report of inspector of live stock
typhoid fever on..

Day nurseries, effect on death rates...

Dead bodies, legislation needed to regulate transportation of.

Death rate:

legislation recommended relative to the disposal of.
number brought into the District of Columbia.

number of, brought into District of Columbia for interment..

number of, removed from District of Columbia for burial else-
where

number sent out of the District of Columbia..

possible to conceal evidence of crime by transportation of...

According to age periods, variation in

And population (ten years)

Cause of high colored

21,

Cause of improved

Chief factors in

18

Colored race, improvement in.

22

Comparison of....

9

Comparison of, a means for determining sanitary conditions
Comparison of white and colored.

Influence of deaths in hospitals, asylums, etc., on street.