Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 6

INFANT MORTALITY AT LOWEST MARK District Records for 1928 Show General Increase in City Death Rate. During 1928 the District had the low- fest ant mortality rate recorded, a calculation made by the Health De- partment es ally for The Star reveals. is estimated at 63.6 per ttering the record per 1,000. subject to revi- r the last few during the y 1201 Talbe elinics were m homes at 512 I pelled to vacate their at 509 Fifteenth street, w' ing was torn down, and sojourned tem- rarily at the Tubercuiosis and Gal- linger Hospitals, respectively. The at- tendance at the clinics practically doubled after their move to the I street | address, Dr. Schwartz said. New Feature, A new feature in the tuberculosis clinical work introduced during the ar is that children with whom tu- rcular children come in contact are ftaken to the clinic for examination and treatment. In the past, the tubercular clinical ‘work has been continued only to the ‘patients themselves. During the year the tuberculosis death rate was (estimated) 105.1, as ‘compared with a rate of 112 in 1927, ‘The rate is calculated per 100,000 of population. ‘The District birth rate declined slightly during the year. It is estimated Ahat the rate for 1928 was 16.24 per 1,000 population and the rate in 1927 ‘was 17 per 1,000. The Health Department has seen & %year of increased aciivity in all de- ‘Iplrt.ment& owing to the natural in- !crease in population, but the activities {have been, in the main, of a routine imature. PAY ROLL FRAUD QUIZ ASKED FOR CHICAGO Wholesale Looting of Sanitary Dis- trict Treasury is Charged in Petition. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 31.—Placing of *oficial responsibility for the looting” of the sanitary district treasury and an into the reputed padding of the pay roll was asked today by itizens’ Association in a petition to the State’s attorney. 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