15,377. If a further deduction be made of the number of casualties, such as drowning, &c., with suicides and murders, amounting in all to 648, the remainder will show the total number of deaths from disease alone to have been 14,729. Of the whole number of deaths reported there were whites..16,529 blacks.. 449 16,978 3,364 5,794 9,158 3,047 5.794 7,820 6,411 10,567 The number of deaths reported in each month was as follows: Of that number 4,279 were of the age of one year and under. 2,135 from 1 to 2 years. 5 66 Number of Still-born Children, as obtained from the certificates during the year. 15,377. If a further deduction be made of the number of casualties, such as drowning, &c., with suicides and murders, amounting in all to 648, the remainder will show the total number of deaths from disease alone to have been 14,729. Of the whole number of deaths reported there were whites..16,529 The number of deaths reported in each month was as follows: Girls.. -1,349 578-1279 -1,812 Of that number 4,279 were of the age of one year and under. Number of Still-born Children, as obtained from the certificates during Number of Deaths at various Public Institutions. Ward's Island, (Em'gt Hospital) 892 City Prison .49 Children's Hospital, Rand. Isl...113 Alms House. Blackwell's Island..162 Colored Home 7 .92 Small Pox 66 .. 8 Colored Orphan Asylum. .6 .12 55 City Hospital... 392 Total... .2,358 Places of Interment, and the number deposited in each. Roman Catholic Cemeteries.... 176 Potter's Field.. Methodist Cemetery .1,471 Marble Cemeteries. 117 Presbyterian German Lutheran Cemetery Episcopal .347 Dutch Reformed The number brought into the city from other places for interment was 68. Table, showing the number of deaths annually, (as far back as returns can be obtained,) and the ratio. |