or other contagious or infectious diseases; and to make all rules and regulations that it may deem necessary to prevent the spread of any such diseases, and may cause persons so affected to be separated, and may order that families or establishments of any kind, where such diseases, or any of them, are supposed to exist, shall not leave the houses so affected, or shall be quarantined, and may make such rules as it may deem necessary for disinfecting premises where such diseases are or have been, and for disinfecting clothing or destroying the same; and any person violating such rules or regulations shall be fined for each offense in any sum not exceeding $50, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction. SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That all incorporated towns in this State shall have the power to pass sanitary laws and to create boards of health, and to suppress as nuisances anything that is dangerous to public health, with full powers of enforcing ordinances for registration and mortuary statistics: Provided, The same are not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the State board of health and the constitution and laws of the State. SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That a chief health officer shall be appointed in each county in the State, by the governor, on the nomination of the State board of health, and who shall be a physician of well known sanitary attainments, whose term of office shall be for two years from the date of his appointment. The salary of said health officers to be the same as that of the county superintendents of education in their respective counties; to be paid semi-annually by county warrants to be issued in the same manner as general county warrants, and payable out of the general county funds. Any interior county remote from railways, navigable streams, and the seacoast, and having a sparse population, may be exempt from this statute, by application to the State board of health, made by the board of supervisors: Provided, That said board of health deems it prudent and proper to grant such exemption. SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That the governor may, at any time, on the recommendation of the State board of health, remove any chief health officer of any county and appoint a successor in the mode prescribed in the preceding section, whose term of office shall be two years from the date of his appointment. SEC. 14. Be it further enacted, That the State board of health shall have the power to make all sanitary rules to be enforced in the several counties, and the chief health officers shall be required to enforce said rules in their respective counties. SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That the secretary of the State board of health shall furnish to the secretary of state, to be filed in the office of the latter, suitable forms for such printed blank books and printed blank forms as said board and the secretary of said board may need in the discharge of the duties prescribed by law; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to have printed and furnish to the State board of health, on the requisition of the secretary of said board, all the printed forms, blank books, as well as stationery, required by the board or the secretary thereof, which shall be paid for in the same manner as printing and stationery for the office of secretary of state. SEC. 16. Be it further enacted, That the secretary of the State board of health shall receive an annual salary of $1,200, payable quarterly, and for which the auditor of public accounts shall issue a warrant or warrants to said secretary; and the sum of $1,200 annually is hereby appropriated for said purpose. Said secretary shall be elected by said State board of health biennially. SEC. 17. Be it further enacted, That each member of the State board of health shall be paid the actual necessary expenses incurred by him in attending the meetings of the board of health, and in addition a per diem of $5 for each day actually spent in such service, for which the auditor of public accounts shall issue a warrant to each member on the certificate of the secretary, countersigned by the president of the State board of health, and the sum of $750 annually is hereby appropriated for said purposes: Provided, The said secretary of the State board of health shall not receive said per diem or expenses. SEC. 18. Be it further enacted, That the power to establish quarantine in this State shall be vested alone in the State board of health, and said board, whenever it is deemed necessary to prevent the introduction of yellow fever or other infections diseases from an adjoining State, shall have the power to establish quarantine stations at the limits of the State, at such places as may be deemed necessary, and said State board of health shall enforce at such stations such rules as may be adopted by said board with the approval of the governor of the State; and the sum of $25,000 is hereby appropriated for said purposes and for the payment of all expenses incurred by the State board of health under the provisions of section 19 of this statute, but no part of this amount shall be used except it becomes absolutely necessary, and then the auditor of public accounts shall issue a warrant or warrants only on the certificate of the secretary of the State board of health, countersigned by the president of said board and approved by the governor of the State. ory power over said quarantine; but if in the opinion of the State board of health it becomes necessary to establish a quarantine in any county, city, or town, and the local health authorities shall fail or refuse to do so, then the State board of health shall establish and conduct said quarantine at the expense of the State, the same to be paid for out of the appropriation provided for in section 18 of this act. SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, That in all cases where quarantines are established by any county, city, or town in this State, under the provisions of this statute, the expenses of the same shall be paid by such county, city, or town by warrants issued by the proper county, city, or town officials, to be paid out of any general funds of the same, to be provided for by taxation, as other claims against said county, city, or town. SEC. 21. Be it further enacted, That when yellow fever or other epidemic disease shall make its appearance in this State the State board of health shall take charge of the infected locality and enforce such rules as may be deemed necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, said rules to be adopted by said State board of health with the approval of the governor; and the sum of $20,000 is hereby appropriated for this purpose, and for the expenses incurred under the provisions of section 23 of this statute, to be paid out on the same conditions as prescribed in section 18 of this act. SEC. 22. Be it further enacted, That any person violating quarantine rules and regulations, made under the authority of this statute, or any rules and regulations made under the authority and provisions of section 21 of this act, published so as to be known by such person, shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment for not more than six months in the county jail, or in such manner as prescribed by said quarantine regulations, or by said regulations adopted under section 21 of this act, not exceeding the punishment herein prescribed; and any person or thing may be forcibly detained to compel observance of quarantine regulations, or regulations made under the authority of section 21 of this act, and shall be liable for all expenses of detention; and anything seized and held for quarantine, or under the regulations authorized by section 21, may be sold to cover the expenses of dealing with it. SEC. 23. Be it further enacted, That if, in the opinion of the State board of health, it should be necessary to employ inspectors more effectually to accomplish the objects of this act, the said board shall have the power to appoint competent physicians for this duty; said inspectors to be paid, out of the appropriation provided for in section 21 of this act, a per diem not to exceed $10 for the time actually employed on said duty, and their necessary expenses, to be paid out of the appropriation made in section 21 of this statute. MISCELLANEOUS. PROVIDENCE, R. I.-The following abstract of the rePort of Dr. E. M. Snow for the year 1879 will exhibit the course of the principal diseases in this city for the past two years: The whole number of deaths in Providence during the year 1879 was 2,026, or 37 more than in 1878, 88 more than in 1877, 161 ́more than in 1876, 111 more than in 1875, and 39 more than in 1874. The estimated population of Providence in 1879 was 101,500, which was undoubtedly a very low estimate. The rate of mortality for the year was, therefore, 19.96 in each 1,000 of the population, or one death in 50.09. The rate in 1878 was one death in 50.61; in 1877, one in 51.09. The returns of deaths are complete, and the estimate of population certainly below the truth. We may therefore claim that the rate of mortality is fully as great as the truth, and must be considered satisfactory as compared with other cities in the country. The total deaths in 1879 were 37 more than in 1878; the male decedents were 35 more; the female decedents, 2 more; the married were 106 more; the single, 85 less; the widowed, 22 more; the divorced, 6 less. The white decedents were 31 more in 1879 than in 1878; the colored, 6 more. The natives of the United States were 10 more; natives of Ireland, 22 more. The decedents of American parentage were 52 more; of foreign parentage, 15 less. The comparison of deaths from the different diseases in the last two years is as follows: The deaths from consumption were 293 in 1879, being 11 less than in 1878; from diphtheria 107, being 139 less; from pneumonia and congestion of the lungs 154, being 14 more; and from scarlet fever 252, being 195 more thau in 1878. The deaths from scarlatina in 1879 were more than in any previous year, except in 1868, when there were 268 deaths from the same disease. During the last five years, 1875 to 1879, inclusive, there have been 759 deaths from diphtheria and 356 from scarlatina in Providence. There has been only one death in Providence from small-pox since May, 1873, a period of six years and eight months. During the year 1879 there were 1,190 persons vaccinated at the office of the superintendent of health, and 1,445 certificates of vaccination were given to children to attend the public schools. SEC. 19. Be it further enacted, That when the chief health officer of any county or any municipal board of health shall deem it necessary to establish a quarantine, application shall be made by said health officer or municipal board to the State board of health for power, and shall only enforce such rules as may be agreed upon by them and the State board of health, and the latter shall in all cases have supervis-street, northwest. NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH rooms are at 1410 G States and cities. Report of mortality in cities of the United States for the week ending January 31, 1880.-Continued. * Boston has 370,000 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 142 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 20.0, colored, 31.3. Marblehead has 7,479 white, 21 colored; deaths, 5 white. Rate in table. Lawrence, Mass., has 39,800 white, 200 colored; deaths, 15 white. Rate in table. Providence has 97,720 white, 3,780 colored; deaths, 57 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 30.4, colored 13.8. Reading has 40,000 white, 350 colored; deaths, 11 white. Rate in table. Wilmington, Del., has 40,000 white, 4,000 colored; deaths, 10 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 13.0, colored, 26.1. Baltimore has 343,715 white, 56,285 colored; deaths, 118 white, 20 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 17.7, colored, 18.5. District of Columbia has 114,000 white, 56,000 colored; deaths, 33 white, 29 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 15. 1, colored, 27.2. Norfolk has 14,087 white, 9,913 colored deaths, 5 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 18.5, colored, 10.5. Richmond has 46,000 white, 34,000 colored; deaths, 12 white, 12 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 13.6, colored, 18 4. Wilmington, N. C., has 6,714 white, 10,286 colored; deaths, 1 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 7.7, colored, 10.1. Charleston has 25.000 white, 32,000 colored; deaths, 4 white, 13 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 8.3 colored, 21.2. Savannah has 17,493 white, 15,163 colored; deaths, 5 white, 9 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 14.9, colored, 30 9. Augusta has 15,246 white, 11.628 colored; deaths, 5 white, 5 colored. Rate per 1.000, white, 17.1, colored], 22.4. Atlanta has 25,373 white. 16,175 colored; deaths, 1 white, 7 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 2.0, colored, 22.5. Jacksonville has 6,000 white, 4,000 colored; deaths, 2 white. Rate in table. Mobile has 2,000 white, 12.000 colored; deaths, 6 white, 7 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 11.2, colored, 30.4. New Orleans has 155,000 white, 55,000 colored; deaths, 61 white, 32 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 20.5, colored, 30.3. Shreveport has 4,500 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 6 colored. Rate in table. Nashville has 17,585 white, 9,500 colored; deaths, 8 white, 7 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 23.7, colored, 38.4. Chattanooga has 8,000 white, 4,000 colored; deaths, 1 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 6.5, colored, 39.1. Jackson has 5,000 white, 2,500 colored, deaths, 2 white, 2 colored, Rate per 1,000, white, 20.8. colored, 41.7. Clarksville has 3,000 white, 3,000 colored: deaths, 1 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 17.4, colored, 52 2. Louisville has 153,125 white, 21,875 colored; deaths, 27 white, & colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 9.2, colored, 19.1. Wheeling has 33.983 white, 1,017 colored; deaths, 37 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 56.8, colored, 51.3. Total white population, 1,616,820; deaths, 570. Rate per 1,000, 18 4. Total colored population, 372,693; total deaths, 174. Rate per 1000, 24.3. THE following reports, for the week ending January 31, are from places requiring burial permits and having less than 5,000 population: Brunswick, Ga., population, 3,000; 1 death. Edgartown, Mass., 1,700; no deaths. Franklin, Tenn., 1,800; no deaths. Murfreesborough, Tenn., 4,000; no deaths. Nantucket, Mass., 3,000; 1 death, Shelbyville, Tenn., 2,000; 1 death. Total population, 15,500; total deaths, 3; rate per 1,000, 10.1. 5,846; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 2; lung diseases 2. Mount Pleasant, Ia., 5,000; one death. Newcastle, Pa., 10,000; deaths, 2. Okolona, Miss., 3,000; no deaths. Orange, N. J., 12,000; deaths, 4; consumption 1, pneumonia 2. Oswego, N. Y., 23,000; deaths, 8; consumption 1, diphtheria 1, enteric fever 1, lung diseases 2. Paducah, Ky., 10,000; deaths, 2. Painesville, Ohio, 5,000; 1 death, under 5 years. Phoenixville, Pa., 6,000; one death, under 5 years. Pontotoc, Miss., 600; no deaths. Portsmouth, Va., 14,000; deaths, 8; under 5 years, 1; consumption 3, diarrhea 1, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1. Portsmouth, Ohio, 15,000; deaths, 2; consumption 1, pneumonia 1. Pulaski, Tenn., 2,100; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, croup 1. Rockland, Me., 7,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1; consumption 2, croup 1. Sedalia, Mo., 12,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1; consumpdeaths, 5; under 5 years, 3. Springfield, Ohio, 20,000; deaths 2. Saint tion 2. Starkville, Miss., 1,163; no deaths. Steubenville, Ohio, 13,500; Augustine, Fla., 2,500; no deaths. Summit, Miss, 2,250; no deaths. Tampa, Fla., 1,000; no deaths. Titusville, Pa., 9,000; pneumonia 1. Tuskaloosa, Ala., 4,000; old age 1. Waterbury, Conn., 16,000; deaths, 5; consumption 2, croup 2, pneumonia 1. Water Valley, Miss, 3,500; no deaths. Waxahachie, Tex., 2,000; no deaths. Waynesborough, Miss., 500; no deaths. Winona, Minn., 11,786; pneumonia 1. Youngstown, Ohio, 17,000; deaths, 7; under 5 years, 3; consumption 1, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1, whooping cough 2. Total population, 595,470; total deaths, 167; under 5 years, 29. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF MORTALITY. The following reports, for the week ending January 31, are from places in which burial permits are not required: Alexandria, Va., population, 13,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; croup, 1, pneumonia, 1. Allegheny, Pa., 75,000; deaths, 17; under 5 years, 7; consumption 5, croup 1, diarrhoea 3, diphtheria 1, enteric fever 1, lung diseases 2. Bath, Me., 10,000; deaths, 6; under 5 years, 1; consumption 2, diphtheria 1, puerperal 1. Battle Creek, Mich., 7,500; deaths, 2; pneumonia 1. Bay City, Mich., 19.500; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 2; consumption 1, diphtheria 1. Belfast, Me., 5,278; 1 death. Benton County, Miss., 11,000; 1 death, under 5 years. Boulder, Colo., 4,200; no deaths. Brattleborough, Vt., 6,500; pneumonia 1. Brownsville, Tex., 6,500; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 2; consumption 1, diarrhea 1, malarial fever 1, puerperal disease 1. Cambridge, N. Y., 1,850; no deaths. Carrollton, Miss., 600; no deaths. Chillicothe, Ohio, 12,000; consumption 2. Circleville, Ohio, 6,400; deaths, 3; consumption 1. Clinton, Mich., 1,000; no deaths. Columbus, Ga., 10,000; no deaths. Crystal Springs, Miss., 1,000; no deaths. Cumberland, Md., 12,000; deaths, 2; consumption 1, diarrhea 1. Dallas, Tex., 20,000; 1 death. Decatur, Miss., 1,000; no deaths. Fairfield, Conn., 4,000; consumption 1. Fayette, Miss., 300; no deaths. Fernandina, Fla., 3,000; no deaths. Flint, Mich., 10,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1. Fort Scott, Kans., 6,000; deaths, 2; diphtheria, 1. Greenville, Ala., 4,500; 1 death. Gunn City, Mo., 125; no deaths. Huntingdon, Tenn., 5,000; no deaths. Indianola, Tex., 900; no deaths. Iuka, Miss., 1,000; no deaths. Jacksonville, Ill., 15,500; deaths, 4; consumption 1, pneumonia 1. Jefferson, Tex., 3,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; malarial fever 1. Jeffersonville, Ind., no deaths; population not given. Kenosha, Wis., 5,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1. Kingston, N. Y., 23,000; deaths, 10; consumption and suppression as are detailed in the reports on the disease in tion 1, diphtheria 2, enteric fever 1, scarlet fever 4, whooping cough, 2. Lansingburgh, N. Y., 7,150; pueumonia 1, under 5 years. Lebanon, Pa., 9,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1'; consumption 1, lung diseases 2. Logansport, Ind., 15,000; deaths, 20; under 5 years, 9; consumption 2, croup 1, diphtheria 1, scarlet fever 5, lung diseases, 3. Louisiana, Mo., 5,200; consumption 1. Madison, Ind., 12,000; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 1; consumption 2, diarrhea 1. Marquette, Mich., 3,000; consumption 1. Meridian, Miss., 5,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1. Milledgeville, Ga., 4,000; lung diseases 2. Monroe, Mich., The reports for the week ending January 31, represent a population of 8,066,088, being 100,304 less than the number for last week; the deaths having at the same time increased from 2,814 to 2,858, the annual rate of mortality has risen from 17.9 to 18.4 per 1,000. The warm and damp weather has apparently been favorable to the spread of zymotic diseases, and while there is no marked change in the aggregate number of deaths from measles, scarlet fever, and whooping-cough, these diseases are more widely disseminated than before. The same may be said of small-pox, which shows a tendency to spread, but has been kept in check so far by such active measures of preventhe District of Columbia and in the letter of Dr. Woodward from Worcester, Massachusetts, to appear next week. The mortality from consumption and acute lung diseases for this week is 789, being exactly the same as for last week; but the diminished population shows an actual increase in the proportion of deaths from these causes. The general course of the zymotic diseases in January will be more fully considered in the review for the month. MORTALITY IN FOREIGN CITIES, COMPILED FROM WEEKLY CONSULAR REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. NOTICE. All official communications to the National Board of Health should be addressed to the Secretary, Dr. T. J. Turner. Correspondents, and others whose writing may be intended for publication, are reminded that much trouble is saved by writing on one side only of the paper. 9 23.4 12 31.3 28 41.7 7 28.9 30.9 2 50.0 1 50.0 1.51.8 39.2 37 29.1 31.8 13 123.5 54. 6 157.9 57.3 34. 82. 81. cities and hospitals, the figures are frequently so placed between the lines as to leave the disease intended entirely uncertain, except in cases where the judgment of the compiler may enable him to determine which is meant. This may be avoided by a stroke of the pen after the disease to be recorded. The total numbers should be placed in their proper columns, and no figures placed immediately NOTICE. In filling the reports on the postal cards for after the word total will be noted in the tables. |