REMARKS. The City Inspector respectfully reports to the Board, a statement of deaths in the City and County of New York, for the year 1817, amounting to two thousand five hundred and twenty-seven. "In 1816, the number of deaths exceeded that of the last year by two hundred and twelve. The small pox in the former year was very fatal, having carried off one hundred and seventy-nine persons, whereas in the latter, fourteen only died of that complaint. This circumstance may account for the present decrease in deaths. It is to be lamented, however, that this fatal complaint has again visited our city; and if the exertions now employed fail in checking its fearful progress, it is to be apprehended, that the next year's report will present a melancholy picture of deaths, which might have been avoided, but for the persevering obstinacy of many who reject Vaccination. "The Consumptive Cases, as usual, occupy a considerable space in the list of deaths, not, however, in a greater proportion than was formerly presented; the same causes continue to produce the same effects, in this widely extended complaint. "It is a matter of great consolation, that our City has been exempted from that dreadful complaint, the Yellow Fever;-that, whilst other cities on the continent experienced its destructive visitation, we, under the precautionary measures of a vigilant Board of Health, aided by a superintending Providence, have escaped its ruthless devastation. "It may not be improper to remark, that although the number of deaths were fewer the last year than in 1816, yet more persons died of Old Age than in the preceding year: ninety-six persons quietly departed, among whom was a woman born in this city, at the advanced age of 103; a proof, if any were wanting, that this climate is as friendly to longevity as any other, and that to imprudence alone it is attributable that we have not many such instances to record." GEORGE CUMMING, New York, Jan. 12, 1818. Statement of Deaths, with the diseases and ages, in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, from the 1st of January 1817, to the 1st of January 18:8. 1 Apoplexy Angina Pectoris Child Bed Cholera Morbus Colic Consumption of } 7 5 11 10 31 76 86 49 44 19 7 4 0 0 549 4 1 1 1 5 1 1 2 3 1 4 the Lungs Convulsions 126 18 Brain 00002200000000 0110530O5ONOI210 Total 9 3 1 0 0 342 87 88 46 73 192 225 157 116 77 44 0 5 11 1 95 2 10 17 1 2. 1 T Brought forward, 342 87 88 46 73 192 225 157 116 77 44 27 Gangrene and Hernia Total, 8 888 035000 072000 0 1 0 2 3 14 2 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 26 8 11 6 2 2 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 1 From 100 to 110 oooooo 4 110 33 6 0 2 1 2 52 26 1 14 0 52 548 138 134 73 96 256 325 222 162 106 84 61 11 1 2217 NOTE. Of the above there were 748 males of twenty years and upwards, 438 under wenty years: of females, 545 of twenty years and upwards, 379 under twenty years; and 107 children, principally under one year, whose sex is unknown. Deaths in each month of the above period. Abstract of the Bills of Mortality, for the City and Precincts of Baltimore, from the 1st January, 1817, to the 1st January, 1818. Deaths in each 37 73 5 10 37 89 20 30 40 75 155 50 58 139 60 32 75 45 102 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 to 2 141 to 3 35 to to to to to to to to Child-bed, Cholera Morbus, Colic, Bilious, 14 746 577 1323| Total, 1323 The Diseases and Casualties, causing the above Deaths, were: · 35 Insanity, of the Liver, 7 1 2 Of this aggregate of 1323, there were 390 coloured persons. By order of the Board of Health. SAMUEL YOUNG, Sec'ry. Statement of Deaths, with the Diseases and Ages, in the City of Charleston, S. C. from the first of October, 1816, to the first of October 1817. Deaths in each AGES. 24 71 39 32 71 10 20 35 74 30 44 20 64 31 26 57 50 72 June, 38 2 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 to 10 129 to to to to to to 120 Totals, 769 480 1249| Total, 1249 The above mentioned Deaths were caused by the following Diseases * As the Yellow Fever had not ceased its ravages at the time of closing the foregoing Abstract, those who fell victims to that calamity on and after the first day of October, 1817, must of necessity be numbered in the next year's statement, which may give rise to erroneous and injurious impressions abroad, although not a case of it may occur in the year 1818. This and other considerations, induce the Editor of the American Daily Advertiser, respect fully to suggest to the Gentlemen composing the Board of Health of the City of Charleston, the propriety of commencing their Abstract, as is done in other Cities of the United States, on the first day of January, and closing it on the |