Department of Vital Statistics- Nomenclature followed. Tables showing Causes of Death, according to Color, Sex, Age and Nativity OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS OFFICE OF BOARD OF HEALTH, NEW ORLEANS, January, 1908. To the President and Members of the Louisiana State Board of Health: GENTLEMEN-The following report, for the two years ending December 31, 1907, is respectfully submitted to the State Board of Health, and, through it, to the Mayor and City Council and the Governor and General Assembly. Perusal of the report will show that the Board has displayed much activity in the various fields of work requiring its attention, and has endeavored to live up to the high trust reposed in it by the people of New Orleans. A compilation of the local laws and ordinances relating to public health and sanitation, accompanies the report. WM. T. O'REILLY, M. D. O. F. ERNST, M. D. W. H. ROBIN, M. D. W. A. GILLASPIE, M. D. A. T. WAINWRIGHT, ESQ. CHAIRMAN OF BOARD AND CITY HEALTH OFFICER, AND EXOFFICIO RECORDER OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. WM. T. O'REILLY, M. D. SANITARY OFFICER, SECRETARY AND TREASURER. SIDNEY L. THÉARD, M. D. DEPUTY RECORDER OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. P. HENRY LANAUZE. ATTORNEY. WM. L. HUGHES. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY. BENJAMIN T. WALDO. CHEMIST. A. L. METZ, M. D. BACTERIOLOGIST. P. E. ARCHINARD, M. D. P. J. GELPI, M. D. CHIEF OF FOOD INSPECTION SERVICE. SUPERINTENDENT OF SANITARY FORCE. THEO. C. WILL. The present Board took charge of the health affairs of the City on September the eleventh, nineteen hundred and six. At its inaugural meeting the Board announced its policy in the following language: "The Board has been asked to define its policy. To do this adequately would be to enumerate its many functions under the law, for the Board means to do its full duty. "It is well, however, that the general public be informed as to the Board's attitude and intended course of action regarding a number of subjects always uppermost in the public mind. Milk, "Foremost among these is the all-important question of the general food-supply. This will be zealously looked after. perhaps the most commonly used article of food, so indispensable in the nursery and the sick-room, will receive special attention, while all meats, fish, fowl, game, fruits, vegetables and, generally, all perishable foods will be under rigid surveillance, wherever sold. "The Board will insist upon the legal standard set for milk. Milk falling below such standard, if not willfully adulterated, can only come from poor or improperly-fed herds of cows, and the remedy lies, not in the lowering of the standard, but in the removal of such dairy-herds to better pasture grounds. In this connection the Board announces that it will advise against and oppose the granting of further time to dairymen to move out of the proscribed dairy district. |