1881
New Haven's population is 66,000. There are 15,716 school children.
There are 4,740 wells in use. Sewage flows into 4,725 cesspools.
New Haven has 262 pig-styes, 2,412 chicken coops and 1,758 stables.
This city has no regulations concerning milk, nor inspection to insure "safe" milk. "Dipping" is in general use.
Diphtheria has, as usual, been one of the worst of the enemies of childhood this year. Fifty-nine deaths have been due to "the Strangler".
Infantile diarrhea has snuffed out the lives of 65 little ones. Other diseases of babyhood have swelled the total of deaths under one year to 266.
As infantile diarrhea is emphatically the summer complaint of infants so is Typhoid peculiar to youth and middle age in autumn. There have been 28 deaths from this disease.
There has been little small pox. An aged inmate of the almshouse clandestinely exhumed the clothing of a victim, contracted the horrible disease and died. A Hamden resident was a victim also.
The cutting down of small pox cases has been largely due to vaccination. This year the common council appropriated $1,500 for free inoculation in the schools and only 2,000 school children are now unprotected.
Consumption (tuberculosis) continues, as heretofore, to lead all other maladies in its destructive power over human life. Two hundred and twenty-three New Haven people have paid their lives this year to the merciless demands of the consu ming foe.