Violent deaths are those arising from accident, suicide, homicide, or execution. Of the total number of deaths, there were:-Born in the United States unknown nativity Of foreign nativity Table Showing the Parentage of those of all Ages who have Died of Consumption. UNKNOWN. TOTAL. 6.729 2,333 92 2,273 5,316 1,111 454 217 353 252 2,136 6,108 605 233 72 The Numbers and Percentages of Deaths of each Sex, from several Specified Causes, at different Specified Periods of Life. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. 301 49.51 307 50.49 608 100.00 100.0 52 49.06 54 50.94 106 100.00 118 93 55 92 44.08 100.00 211 100.00 15 100.00 100.00 642) 100.00 Numbers. Percentages. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. Table Showing the number and percentage of Deaths from the five classes of specified causes: distinguished according to Sex, Age and Season. ZYMOTIC. LOCAL. TIONAL. Percentages. Numbers. Percentages. Males 1547 51.21 846 48.07 1486 52.18 522 46.19 266 75.57 24 55.81 Females Totals 1474 48.79 914 5 1 3 1362 47.82 608 53.81 86 24.43 19 44.19 352 100.00 43 100.00 Numbers. Numbers. Percentages. POLICE SURGEONS. There are at present fifteen police station-houses within the city, and in the course of the year about 80,000 persons, for some cause, lodged for a longer or shorter time in these stations and under the court-house. Many of these persons, either from drunkenness or accident, require the services of a physician before they can be sent away to a hospital or elsewhere. In 1863, when the city covered but a small portion of its present area, an ordinance was made, requiring the city physician, in addition to other duties, to do all the service. required of a physician at the city prison under the courthouse, and at the several police stations in the city proper. While this was quite impossible for him then to do, it is much less so now, with the present increased demand upon his time for other official duty. Practically, it has never been done, and can never be done, and secure the immediate attention which many of the accidents and other cases require. The residence of the present City Physician happens to be near Station 4, and most of his official duty near Station 2. Many of the calls at these two stations are answered by him, but not all. The result has been that the nearest or most available physician has been called in, and in each case a separate and full charge is made. Last year the sum of $1,706.95 was paid by the police department for services thus rendered by the several physicians at police stations. The city thus pays exceptionally high for services; sometimes for a first-class physician, but sometimes to those whom the Council would not select for the position. We respectfully call the attention of the City Council to this important subject, and suggest the propriety of appointing, for a term of years, or during satisfactory service, a sufficient number of regularly graduated physicians, selected from those who live in the immediate vicinity of the stations to which they are appointed, and who shall receive a salary adcquate to their services. In this way the most competent and honorable physicians can be obtained, direct responsibility secured, and one half of the present expense saved the city treasury. DIPHTHERIA. Diphtheria prevailed to so large an extent, and its cause and true character — its relation to or dependence upon contagion or insanitary surroundings- became a matter of so great interest that we thought best to institute examinations |