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height of th<> building on its four street fronts 

 from UK- street level to thepara- 

 lic Kim Street fp.ni i-, t.) he l.iiilt \vitliin 

 I'.i fr.-i of this height, tin- Franklin Sired front 

 to within 7") feet of the parapet, the White - 

 fn.nl tii liom ")? t" i;."i feet In-low the parapet and 

 the Center Street front to within 7"> feet of the 

 :. Then- are 1! interior partition walls, 

 all of which are within 4(5 feet of the roof. Two 

 of the four stories of the marble interior arcade 

 tire iuiilt. The iron work, heating apparatus, 

 and plumbing are advanced to the full extent 

 posMble with the progress on the mason work. 

 With an adequate force of workmen the build- 

 ing can be put under roof in sixty-four days. The 

 construction of the new Harlem court-house is 

 progressing favorably. The fifteen free floating 

 batiis were thoroughly repaired and equipped in 

 the spring and placed in their respective summer 

 berths in June. The total attendance for the 

 bathing season of 1891 was 2,350,862 males and 

 1,081,907 females The operations of the Bureau 

 of Encumbrances are summarized as follow: 

 Complaints of obstructions received and attended 

 to, 4,242 ; seizures and removals of obstructions 

 made. 4,054 ; cartloads of refuse material removed 

 from the streets, 597 ; dead and dangerous shade 

 trees removed, 039 ; telegraph poles removed, 1,- 

 5:57 : miles of telegraph wire removed, 2,232 ; 

 permits issued to place building material on 

 streets, 7,27G; miscellaneous permits 1,026. 



Sewerage was extended into new streets by the 

 construction of 7*35 miles of new sewers, with 

 66 receiving basins, and 1 '52 miles of new sewers 

 were built in place of old and defective ones. 

 The sewerage system on Manhattan Island now 

 includes 445-24 miles of sewers, with 5,314 re- 

 ceiving basins. In the maintenance of this 

 system, 162,305 miles of sewers and 4,387 receiv- 

 ing basins were cleaned. 



A summary of contracts shows that during 

 the year there were made : 



Estimated cost. 



fi sewer contracts $811,468 16 



77 regulating and grading 278,812 99 



44 paving 1,861,87006 



74 miscellaneous ... 640,004 84 



884 contracts. Total cost $2,788,126 78 



Dock Department. There are three com- 

 mi-sioners, as follow : President, Edwin A. Post ; 

 Treasurer, James Matthews; and J. Sergeant 

 Cram. The office of this department is at Pier A, 

 North river. During the year 9 new piers were 

 built on the North river and 5 on the East 

 river. Of those on the North river, 10 piers were 

 extended to the new pier-head line. On the 

 North river 600 feet of masonry sea-wall were 

 built and 1,400 feet on the East river, and 1,200 

 feet of crib bulk-head were constructed in the 

 upper part of the island. A total of new wharf- 

 age front was thus provided of more than two 

 and a half miles, equaling over 10 per cent, of 

 the entire dock frontage of the city of Liverpool. 

 The receipts of the department were over $ 1,650.- 

 000. the largest of any year in its history. 



The city's water-front property is now sub- 

 stantially "all improved, but private owners, with 

 their limited holdings, are unwilling or unable 

 to properly improve their dock property. It is 

 recommended as a measure of economy in the 

 use of the water-fronts, and for the advantage of 



the commerce of this jiort, that the city -hould, 

 under the power, conferred by law. acquire tin- 

 whole North ri\<r water-front as fur an ->tli 

 SI net and that of the Kast river as far a- 

 Street. Improvements on acompn-henshe plan. 

 wit ha continuous sea-wall and piers at prop, r 

 intervals and of sufficient length, could then be 

 made, thus meet ing the requirement < of com- 

 merce and carrying into ciTect ihr |.rvi.-iitna of 

 the act of 1871. 



Street Cleaning. This department is under 

 the control of a commissioner with his office 

 at 187 Stewart Building, (Thorna- S. I'rcnnan, 

 Commissioner). The appropriation for 1891 wan 

 $1,511,250, which was an increase over that of 

 1890 of $239,724, although the population 

 showed an increase of 6 per cent., or 100,827. The 

 appropriation was used as follov s : Admini 

 tration, $124,000; sweeping, $377,000; carting, 

 $616,000 ; snow and ice, $40,000 ; final disposi- 

 tion, $292,000 ; new stock, $50,000 ; rentals and 

 contingencies, $13,250. 



The work accomplished by the department 

 and the cost were as follow : Swept, 56,528*68 

 miles of streets, cost $5.09 a mile ; carted, 1,450,- 

 741 loads, cost 37 cents a load ; and final disposi- 

 tion, 1,659,415 loads, at 15 cents a yard. 



The refuse was disposed of by dumping 831,- 

 027 loads at sea, 736,756 loads behind bulkheads, 

 and filling in lots with 119,844 loads. 



Vital Statistics. The Board of Health con- 

 sists of the President of the Board of Police, tin- 

 health officer of the port, and two commission- 

 ers, one of whom must have been for five years 

 a practicing physician. The commissioner who 

 is not a physician is the president of the board. 

 The commissioners are as follow : President 

 Charles G. Wilson, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, 

 Health-Officer William M. Smith, and I'ICM- 

 dent of the Board of Police Charles F. Mac- 

 Lean. The headquarters of the Board of Health 

 is at 301 Mott Street. During 1891 the vital 

 statistics were as follow : 



The principal causes of death were as follow : 

 Phthisis, 5,160; pneumonia, 5,817: diarrhoeal 

 diseases, 3,585; Bright's disease and nephritis, 

 2,503: heart disease, 2,287; bronchitis, 1.834; 

 violence, 1,957 ; diphtheria, 1,363; scarlet fev.r. 

 1.-J-J1 : influenza. MS: measles, (5(5-1 : croup, 605; 

 typhoid fever. :t*4 : whooping cough, 353 : 

 bro-spinal meningitis, 189; malarial fever, 187; 

 smallpox, 2; and typhus fever, 1. 



The Bureau of Contagious Pi-eases (Cyrus 

 Edson, chief) report that during the year '.?."U>>'.i 

 cases were attended by sanitary injectors. This 

 number included ( .t typhus fever. l.H'J!) typhoid 

 fever. 7/J18 scarlet fever, ll.Stt* measles, 4.74i 

 diphtheria, and 21 smallpox. There were % jr..r, )si 

 in-peetions made, and H,520 general and special 

 reports submitted. 



There were 25,243 primary vaccinations and 

 88,790 revaccinations performed during the year, 



