*This cost includes the treatment of 41,253 patients at the two Trachoma Clinics.

REPORTS, COMMUNICATIONS, APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS, Notices and ORDERS AND CERTIFICATES OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

The following official reports, communications and applications, summarized and classified as to the subject matter, were received during the year ending December 31, 1908, and submitted to the Board for consideration and final action:

Special reports and communications submitted to the Board of Health

Delayed and imperfect certificates of births, marriages, and deaths approved and ordered filed....

3,435

Corrected certificates of births, marriages and deaths approved and ordered filed.....

806

ORDERS ISSUED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Orders of the Board for the abatement of nuisances are issued under the supervision of the Assistant Sanitary Superintendents in the various Boroughs, upon the facts and evidence contained in the written reports of the Sanitary Inspectors, the result of personal inspection of premises complained of. These orders call the attention of owners, lessees and agents to violations of the Sanitary Code and Health Laws in each case, and require the necessary alterations, repairs, cleaning and improvements of the premises named within three days from the receipt of the order. If, upon reinspection, it is found that the requirements of the order have not been complied with, a suit for penalty is commenced against the delinquents under sections 1172 and 1222, chapter 466, Laws of 1901.

Summary of clerical work performed in the various Boroughs in connection with the issuance of Board orders, negative reports filed. and fees paid and certificates issued, the result of searching for sanitary violations against premises; also written references forwarded to other city departments, as follows:

SEARCHES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

Certified copies of the records of Vital Statitics as may be found to be on file in the Bureau of Records are furnished to applicants authorized to receive same, namely, interested parties, next of kin, legal representatives, etc., upon payment of the fee in such cases prescribed by the Board of Health. Written orders are signed by the Assistant Chief Clerk in the various Boroughs and issued to the Assistant Registrar of Records, authorizing the search and issuance of a transcript of the record, which, in accordance with the regulations of the Board, is authenticated by affixing the seal of the Department of Health and attested by the signature of the Assistant Chief Clerk of the Borough. When search is made and the record is not found to be on file, an official certificate is issued to that effect.

Summary of applications for searches made to the Assistant Chief Clerks in the various Boroughs, showing fees received and work performed in connection with searches and transcripts of the records of births, marriages and deaths on file in the Bureau of Records in the Department:

WRITTEN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COMPLAINTS RECEIVED.

All mail, matter and letters addressed to the Department of Health are carefully scrutinized, and those in which complaints are made relative to matters within the jurisdiction of the Department and giving the names and addresses of the authors, are promptly acknowledged and referred to the Sanitary Superintendent for action. Those requiring the attention of other City departments are acknowledged and immediately forwarded for such action as may be found necessary.

Statement of the number of written complaints received and answered in the various Boroughs:

Statement of the disbursements of moneys in the various Boroughs by the Assistant Chief Clerks, showing the total and the amounts in detail; also the purpose for which the disbursements were made, as follows: