States and cities. REPORT OF MORTALITY IN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 13, 1880. Me...... Bangor Portland. N. H.....Concord REPORT OF MORTALITY IN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 13, 1880—Continued. Total number of deaths. Representing an annual 305,000 28 95 16.2 15 8, 382, 942 1,142 2,871 17.9 498 80 45 107 43 27 63 441 65 39 Boston has 370,000 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 142 white. Rate in table. Lawrence, Mass., has 39,800 white, 200 colored; deaths, 7 white. Rate in table. Providence has 98,200 white, 3,800 colored; deaths, 32 white. Rate in table. Sing Sing has 7.250 white, 250 colored; deaths, 6 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 43.2, colored 208.7. Reading has 40,000 white, 350 colored; deaths, 16 white. Rate in table. Wilmington, Del., has 39,000 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 9 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.0, colored 20.8. Baltimore has 343,715 white, 56,285 colored; deaths, 86 white, 24 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.9, colored 22.2. District of Columbia has 114,000 white, 56,000 colored; deaths, 41 white, 42 colored. 5 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 10.1, colored 27.4. Richmond has 46,000 white, 34,000 colored; deaths, 17 white, 19 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 19.3, colored 29.1. Wilmington, N. C., has 6,714 white, 10,286 colored; deaths, 1 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 7.8, colored 15.2. Charleston has 25,000 white, 32,000 colored; Rate per 1,000, white 18.7, colored 39.3. deaths, 3 white, 14 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 6.2, colored 22.8. Savannah has 17,493 white, 15,163 colored; deaths, 5 white, 6 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 14.9, Norfolk has 15,500 white, 9,500 colored; deaths, 3 white, colored 20.6. Augusta has 16,176 white, 10,824 colored; deaths, 4 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.9, colored 4.8. Atlanta has 25,373 white, 16,175 colored; deaths, 4 white, 6 colored. colored 26.0. Rate per 1,000, white 8.2, colored 19.3. Jacksonville has 6,000 white, 4,000 colored; deaths, 2 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 17.4, Mobile has 28,000 white, 12,000 colored; deaths, 5 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 9.3, colored 8.7. New Orleans has 155,000 white, 55,000 colored; deaths, 45 white, 33 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 15.1, colored 31.3. Shreveport has 4,500 white, 5,000 colored; deaths 2 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 23.2, colored 10.4. Austin has 12,000 white, 4,000 clored; deaths, 3 white. 5 colored. deaths, 2 white, 12 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 6.2, colored 44.8. Nashville has 26,000 white, 11,000 colored; deaths, 6 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.0, colored 14.2. Clarksville has 3,000 white, 3,000 colored; deaths, 3 colored. Rate in table. Wheeling has 28,600 white, 900 colored; deaths, 15 white. Rate in table. BurRate per 1,000, white 13.0, colored 65.2. Memphis has 16,705 white, 13,954 colored; lington, Iowa, has 25,400 white, 600 colored; deaths, 1 white. Rate in table. Lawrence, Kans., has 6,800 white, 1,700 colored; deaths, 2 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 15.3, colored 61.4. Total white population, 1,486,226; deaths, 459; annual death-rate 16.1 per 1,000. Total colored population, 365,987; deaths, 186; rate per 1,000, 26.5. MORTALITY IN FOREIGN CITIES, COMPILED FROM WEEKLY CONSULAR REPORTS TO NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. REPORTS FROM HOSPITALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 13, 1880-Continued. The following reports, for the week ending March 13, are from places requiring burial permits, and having less than 5,000 population: Brunswick, Ga., 3,000; consumption 1. Edgartown, Mass., 1,400; 1 death. Franklin, Tenn., 1,621; no deaths. Morgan City, La., 2,500; no deaths. Murfreesboro', Tenn., 4,000; no deaths. Nantucket, Mass, 3,000; deaths, 6; diarrhoea 1, apoplexy 2, old age 3. Saint Augustine, Fla., 2,500; 1 death. Shelbyville, Tenn., 2,000; deaths, 2. Total population, 20,021; deaths, 11; annual rate per thousand, 28.6. The following reports, for the week ending March 13, are from places in which burial permits are not required: Alexandria, Va., 13,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1. Alleghany, Pa., 75,000; deaths, 16; under 5 years, 4; consumption 5, diphtheria 1, lung diseases 2. Bath, Me., 10,000; consumption 1. Battle Creek, Mich., 7,500; old age 1. Benton County, Miss., 11,000; 1 death. Boulder, Col., 3,500; no deaths. Brattleboro', Vt., 6,500; deaths, 3. Cambridge, N. Y., 1,900; deaths, 3; consumption 2, pneumonia 1. Carrollton, Miss., 600; no deaths. Chathain, Conn., 3,000; no deaths. Chico, Cal., 5,000; pneumonia 1. Chillicothe, Ohio, 12,000; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 1; puerperal 1. Chillicothe, Mo., 4,750; no deaths. Circleville, Ohio, 6,400; consumption 2. Columbus, Ga., 10,000; deaths, 3, under 5 years; pneumonia 1. Corinth, Miss., 2,300; no deaths. Crystal Springs, Miss., 1,000; consumption 1. Cumberland, Md., 12,000; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 2; consumption 1, lung diseases 2. Dallas, Tex., 18,000; deaths, 3; consumption 2. Danbury, Conn., 9,350; deaths, 2; pnenmonia 1. Davenport, Iowa, 27,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1: consumption 1, diarrhoea 1. East Haven, Conn., 1,200; no deaths. Fairfield, Conn., 4,000; pneumonia 1. Fayette, Miss., 300; no deaths. Flint, Mich., 10,000; no deaths. Greenville, Ala., 4,500; 1 death. Helena, Montana, 3,500; no deaths. Huntingdon, Pa., 4,500; no deaths. Huntingdon, Tenn., 850; no deaths. Indianola, Tex., 900; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; diarrhea 1, old age 1. Iuka, Miss., 1,000; measles 1 Jefferson, Tex., 3,000; 1 death. Jeffersonville, Ind., 11,000; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1. Kenosha, Wis., 5,000; diphtheria 2. Lebanon, Pa., 9,000; pneumonia 1, under 5 years. Little Falls, N. Y., 5,900; I death. Louisiana, Mo., 5,200; no deaths. Lynchburg, Va., 21,000; deaths, 13; under 5 years, 6; consumption 3, enteric fever 1, pneumonia 1, whooping cough 2. Madison, Ind., 12,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 2. Marquette, Mich., 4,000; no deaths. Meridian, Miss., 5,500; 1 death. Milledgeville, Ga., 4,000; no deaths. Monmouth, Ill., 6,000; pneumonia 1, under 5 years. Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 5,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1. Muscatine, Iowa, 7,537; lung diseases 2. Muskegon, Mich., 13,025; Natchez, deaths, 5; consumption 2, malarial fever 2, pneumonia 1. Miss., 10,000; consumption 1. New Britain, Conn., 12, 100; deaths, 8; under 5 years, 3; consumption 1, lung diseases 6. Norwalk, Conn., deaths 3; population not given. Okolona, Miss., 3,000; no deaths. Oshkosh, Wis., 18,000; deaths, 7; under 5 years, 2; consumption 2, croup 1, enteric fever 1, puerperal fever 1. Painesville, Ohio, 5,000; consumption 1. Phoenixville, Pa., 6,000; deaths, 3; consumption 1. Pomeroy, Ohio, 6,200; scarlet fever 2. Pontotoc, Miss., 600; no deaths. Port Gibson, Miss., 1,100; deaths, 2; pneumonia 1. Port Jervis, N. Y., 10,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 2; diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1. Portsmouth, Va., 14,000; deaths, 3; consumption 1. Pulaski, Tenn., 2,100; no deaths. Ripley, Miss., 1,000; 1 death. Rock Island, Ill., 3 deaths; no population given. Rockland, Me., 7,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1. San Diego, Cal., 3,000; deaths, 3; consumption 1, pneumonia 1. Santa Cruz, Cal., 5,000; consumption 1. Springfield, Ohio, 23,000; deaths, 8; consumption 3, diphtheria 2. Starkville, Miss., 1,163; no deaths. Steubenville, Ohio, 13,500; 3 deaths, under 5 years. Summit, Miss., 2,250; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; diarrhoea 1. Tampa, Fla., 1,200; no deaths. Titusville, 9,000; deaths, 2. Tuskaloosa, Ala., 4,000; deaths, 2; consumption 1. Watertown, N. Y., 7 deaths; no population given. Waxahachie, Tex., 2,000; no deaths. Wesson, Miss., 2,000; no deaths. Winchester, Va., 5,500; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; croup 1. Winona, Minn., 11,786; consumption 1. Youngstown, Ohio, 17,000; 1 death. Total population, 583,211; deaths under 5 years, 38; total deaths, 148; annual death-rate per thousand, 13.2. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF MORTALITY. The population represented in the reports for the week ending March 13 is 8,382,942, or 37,900 less than that for last week. With this small reduction in population the total number of deaths, 2,871, is 317 less than before, and the annual rate falls from 19.7 to 17.9 per 1,000. Consumption and acute lung diseases show an annual rate of 5.84 against 6.23 for last week, and the decrease is chiefly in the mortality from lung diseases. The zymotic diseases have changed as follow: Increased, measles, from 0.22 to 0.40; malarial fevers, from 0.13 to 0.17; whooping cough, from 0.21 to 0.29. Decreased, diphtheria, from 0.85 to 0.66; scarlet fever, from 0.53 to 0.39; enteric fever remains at 0.28 per 1,000. The mortality under five years of age has fallen from 7.52 to 7.10 per 1,000; at the same time the percentage of the total mortality has risen from 38.1 to 39.6, showing that the rate of deaths among adults has decreased more rapidly than that among young children. No deaths from small-pox are reported this week, and probably but few have occurred. The following is a translation of a decree relating to the ports, put up ventilators, or to make any other modifications in the sanitary condition of the island of Cuba: GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA-PUBLIC HEALTH. the cabins and between decks. Seventh. The orders that the physician may give to the captain, or to the one who may represent him on board, he shall communicate in writing, and he shall take from the same a paper writing acknowledging the notification. Eighth. The bay and all the establishments located near it, public, private, civil, military, without any exception whatever may be their class, shall be the object of periodical visits on the part of the health physician, who shall take note of the infractions he may notice of the hygiene rules ordered to be observed, and of the measures which, in his opinion, should be taken to remove the causes of insalubrity of any place upon the shore of the bay, making it known to the deputation of the port, for their resolution, as well as to make the suggestions he may deem proper to the chiefs, owners, or agents, should they accept all the reforms that are suggested to them. Ninth. The three physicians of the port of Havana will alternate each ten days in the discharge of this duty. RAMON BLANCO. HABANA, March 10, 1880. The salubrity of this country is an indispensable condition for the preservation of its public health and the development of its population. European immigration, and especially that from Spain, which ought by every known reason bring into this island in preference to other countries the concourse of its labor and its intelligence, is directed to other places on this side of the world, through fear of the yellow fever, which, during the spring and summer months of the year, causes so many victims among those who are not native to the soil. The government of His Majesty, ever solicitous to advance as much as possible the well-being of the inhabitants of these important provinces of the kingdom, and to remove all obstacles which are opposed to the development of the wealth and the increase of the population of the country, has ordered, at the suggestion of this general government, the creation in this capital of a junta, to be composed of scientists and savans, and presided over by the governor of the province, which, after due examination into and study of the causes that promote the development of so terrible a scourge in PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDIthe bay of this city, shall propose the measures that should be employed as most efficacious to combat and arrest it. However, aside from the results of the labors of this junta, and the adoption of the measures it may suggest, which will assuredly be beneficial to the public health, great assistance can be given to this place by adopting measures of sanitary police, which carried out scrupulously inviding for a State board of health, and regulating the this port, and in all those of any importance in the island, shall succeed in lessening the evil and its terrible effect, shall improve the salubrity of the land, and shall offer such guarantees to iminigration and to commerce that will dispel from the minds of all the sad and notorious reputation of general unhealthiness that this island has acquired. In view of these considerations and in addition to what is already prescribed by the regulations of maritime health in force, I have ordered, in conformity with the report from the superior board of health, and the approval of His Majesty's government, that the following regulations shall be observed: First. At the termination of the discharge of every vessel in any of the ports of this island where there may be a health physician, the same shall be made known to the sanitary deputation, so that the vessel may be immediately inspected by the physician to whom this service pertains. Second. No vessel shall admit on board either cargo or ballast without having been inspected as provided for in the foregoing rule, and has the ticket of the sanitary deputation expressing: "Inspected and ready to receive cargo." (Saneado y lesto pava cargar.) | Third. When the vessel shall have finished loading, the master or supercargo shall notify the deputation for a new inspection, the health physician making known to the captain or supercargo such defects as he may note, so that they may be corrected. In the case where the vessel has good sanitary conditions, as well as where the defects noted shall not have been rectified, it shall be so stated in the bill of health (patents), and in the latter case that the master was duly notified thereof. Fourth. In his visits of inspection to the vessels before named, the health physician shall scrupulously examine into the general condition of the vessel, all her departments, hold, between-decks, machinery, furnaces, cabins, berths, galley, pantry, water-closet, sick-room, medicine-chest, water-supply, provisions, and whatever else may be deemed necessary. He will inform himself whether in all respects the vessel fulfills all legal prescriptions in force, and complies with the most indispensable requisites of maritime hygiene. Fifth. In the visit to vessels that have finished loading and are ready to sail, care should be taken to make sure that there is not on board any one attacked with or convalescent from yellow fever; that the total number of passengers and crew are in proportion to the tonnage of the space left after the completion of the cargo; that she carries a physician, medicine-chest, medical apparatus, and a hospital to the extent required; that she has a water-supply, provisions, and other necessary resources for the voyage she has to undertake. Sixth. When the visiting physician considers that the vessel should be fumigated at the conclusion of her loading or discharging, he will CINE IN OHIO. SIXTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, REGULAR SESSION. Mr. Grune introduced the following bill (No. 223) pro practice of medicine: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint seven physicians who shall constitute the State board of health. The persons so appointed shall be selected from the three commonly recognized schools of medicine, in the following ratio: five from the regular, one from the homeopathic, and one from the eclectic schools. The persons so appointed shall hold their offices for seven years: Provided, That the terms of office of the seven first appointed shall be so arranged that the term of one shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year; and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate: Provided also, That appointments made when the senate is not in session may be confirmed at its next ensuing session. SEC. 2. The State board of health shall have the general supervision of the sanitary interests, health, and life of the citizens of the State. They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine; and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations, as they may from time to time deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of the public health; and it shall be the duty of judges of the court of common pleas, sheriffs, constables, and police officers, to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the State board of health. SEC. 3. The State board of health shall have supervision of a system of registration of births and deaths, and have charge of the vital and mortuary statistics of the State; and all physicians, coroners, and accoucheurs shall be required to report to the probate judge of the county in which they reside all necessary information pertaining to all births and deaths that may come under their supervision; such reports to be made within thirty days from the date of their occurrence. The provisions of this section shall not apply to cities and towns having a local board of health, but where such local boards of health do exist in cities and towns, they shall be auxiliary to, and act in harmony with, the State board of health, and shall be required to enforce a system of registration of all births and deaths that may come within their jurisdiction, and shall report the same to the State board of health within the first three days of every month. The State board of health shall be required to provide blank forms for certificates of births and deaths. The penalty for violation of this section of this act shall be a fine of ten dollars. SEC. 4. Where any birth or death shall take place, no physician, coroner, or accoucheur being in attendance, the same shall be reported to the probate judge in the county in which such birth or death shall occur within ten days from the date of its occurrence, |