HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
The annual report of the health officer for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1899, has just been issued. The estimated population is 226,678; whites, 186,567: colored, 40,111. The deathrate of the whites is 13.93; colored, 23.16; white and colored, 15.32. Dr. Allen asks for a $15,000 appropriation for the maintainance of the Department. With this one inspector would be allowed for each ward in the city, and he be held responsible for the sanitary condition. It would admit of the employment of a chemist and bacteriologist, also a milk and an assistant live stock inspector, and a secretary for the Department alone. The work of the Department in dealing with an epidemic of smallpox is reviewed, about 25,000 free vaccinations being performed. Of the 534 cases reported, 525 were removed to the Eruptive Hospital. Those not removed were too enfeebled to permit of it. There was a