Deaths From Street Accidents in New York City. POPULATION OF NEW YORK CITY BY BOROUGHS. 947 The 1918 figures-like those of other years since 1915, when the State took a census-are estimates of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Municipal Department of Health. 1918. 1917.. 1916. 1915 1914.. 1913.. 1912.. 1911. 1910.. 1909.. 1908.. 1907.. 1906. 1905 1900.. 1890.. 1880. 1870. 1860.. 1850.. POPULATION, NEW YORK CITY, BY AGE GROUPS. 1910 UNITED STATES CENSUS. In 1910 the excess of males over females in New York City was as follows, at the various age groups: Under 1 year, 1,550; 1 to 4 years, 2,828; 25 to 29 years, 7.917; 30 10 34 years, 17,190; 35 to 44 years, 23,686; 45 to 54 years, 14,930. There were excesses of females at the other ages as follows: 5 to 9 years, 43: 10 to 14 years, 1,235; 15 to 19 years, 25,474; 20 to 24 years, 29.436; 55 to 64 years, 4,465; 65 years and over, 12,957. DEATHS FROM STREET ACCIDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY. (By S. W. Wyune, M. D., Assistant Registrar Department of Health. The rate is per 100,000 population.) The reduction in mortality of accidents resulting from horse-drawn vehicles has been caused by a liminution of the number of this class of vehicles. 849 Birth Rate in New York and Foreign Cities. NEW YORK CITY VITAL STATISTICS, 1898-1917. 137,644 24.57 The 1917 figures are subject to. revision on receipt of the number of military service entrants. The 1917 births, marriages, and deaths were, by boroughs, respectively, as follows: Manhattan, 61,612, 33,609, 36,947; Bronx, 16,902, 5,026, 8,489; Brooklyn, 50,468, 17,066, 25,338; Queens, 10,050, 2,725, 5,614: Richmond, 2,532, 784, 2.187. Infectious diseases in the whole city numbered the following cases: Diphtheria and croup, 12,624; measles, 27,419; scarlet fever, 6,260; smah pox, 14; typhold, 1,442: tuberculosis, 17,494; total, 62,253. Deaths, by chief causes, were: Tuberculosis, 8,825; organic heart, 11,102; pneumonia, 7,268; bronchopneumonia, 3,783; kidney troubles. 6,727; cancer, 4,867; children's diarrhoes (under five years), 3,365. Of the 141,564 babies born in New York City in 1917 there were 37,555 whose parents were natives of the United States: 28,989 babies had Italian parents; 24,099 had Russian or Polish parents; and 10,377 had Austro-Hungarian parents (meaning both parents in every casc). The maternal mortality rate in New York in 1917 (death rate expressed as per 10,000 females fifteen to forty-five years of age), was 4.15, as against 7.44 in 1905. The greatest num Of the 1917 deaths, 12,568 were under one year and 18,265 were under five years. ber died, 5.842, when fifty to Afty-four years old; 5,235 died when forty-five to forty-nine years old; 4,370 died between seventy and seventy-four years; and 1,307 died when over eighty-five years, INFANT MORTALITY, NEW YORK CITY, 1902-1917. QUEENS. RICHMOND, N. Y. CITY. MANHATTAN. THE BRONX. BROOKLYN. YEAR 1902 1905. 1904 1905. 1906. 1907. 14.413 152 1908. 16,231 128 285 200 634 167 167 179 5,012 120 4,923 119 1910 16.215 125 14.289 105 7,675 116 4,453 98 784 98 113 BIRTH RATE IN NEW YORK AND FOREIGN CITIES, (By W. H. Guilfoy, M. D., Director Bureau of Records, New York City Department of Health ) The birth rate is per 1,000 of population, The figures show marked decreases in birth rate in belligerent European countries, due to the war. DEATH RATE IN NEW YORK AND FOREIGN CITIES, 1917, COMPARED. Amsterdam, 12.50; Barcelona, 25.82; Birmingham, 12.53; Bologna, 16.71; Bradford, 13.76; Edinburgh, 14.79; Florence, 22.56; Genoa, 16.52; Glasgow, 15.09; Lyons, 14.81; Manchester, 13.39; Marseilles, 21.75; Milan, 16.77; Paris, 15.52; Stockholm, 11.88; Zurich, 10.44; New York, 13.70. The tuberculosis death rate per 100,000 population was 150.0 in New York; 306.6 in Florence; 295.8 In Paris; 21.3 in Barcelona; 117.4 in Edinburgh and 194.2 in Stockholm. The infant death rate was 89.0 in New York; 63.0 in Amsterdam; 503.0 in Barcelona; 123.0 in Edinburgh; 188.0 in Florence; 96.0 in Paris: 74.0 in Stockholm; 70.0 in Zurich. The cancer death rate was 127.0 in New York, 128.1 in Amster dam: 125.8 in Edinburgh; 173.2 in Florence; 119,2 in Paris; 125.5 in Zurich. YEAR. New York City Budgets, 1899-1919. NEW YORK CITY ASSESSED VALUATIONS, BY BOROUGHS. 849 Dollars. 4,033,636,635 247.090.767 1916. 5,447,017,929 1917 5,427,451,103 1918. 5,289,376,438 YEAR. Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Queens Realty. 1899 1900.. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 609.822,267 45,270,713 655,092,980 103,752,600 6,314,032 110,066,632 40,264,692 3,838,89 651,383,900] 43,947,440] 695,321,330 104,427,872 5,498,681 109,926,553 42,723,924 6,264,204 658,962,119 S9,241,624 748,203,743 107,179,620 10,826,810 118,008,4301 42,639,506 9,655,620 670-533,508) 85,577,102 756,110,610 108,859,704 9,026,134 117,885,838 38,814,181 6,725,535 853,760,357 100.052,348 953,812,705 123,781,723 10,176,900 133,958,623 43,124,597 6,031,550 901.995.227 88.573,775 990,569,002|131,379,225| 7,477,425|138,856,650) 44,205,709|5,792,070 940,982,302 90,911,963 1,031,894,265 140,404,990 9,094,738 149,499,728 44,581,235 5,490,810 1,072,007,172 87,722,810 1,159,729,982 159,446,205 9,694,428 169,140,633 45,901,985 4,676,295 1,181,221,910 92,866,547 1,274,088,457 217,668,775 11,191,262 228,860,037 52,931,236 4,062,205 1.331,864,835 83,448,072 1,418,312,907 296,458,980 9,908,8301306,367,810 65,326,825 3,067.397 1,354,809,840 84,332,190 1,439,142,030 308,112,605 9,673,200 317,785,805 67,106,965 3,153,160 1,404,036,521 59,331,825 1,463,368,346 334,563,960 5,358,480 339,922,440) 67,917,489 2,207,487 1,689,171,283 55,855,616 1,745,026,899 446,569,352 5,339,875 451,909.227) 80,003,9111,942,785 1,674,742,409 48,753,985 1,723,496,394 456,750,539 6,396,750 463,147,289 78,99,151 1,750,485 1,680,013,591 46,296,870 1,726,310.461 477,792,836 6,740,850 484,533,686 81.558,246 1,777,225 1,671.175.930 39,296,065 1,710,471,995 488,686,756 5,915,150 494,601,906 82,114,453 1,554,875 1,691.912,426 43,606.010 1,735,518,436 509,515,978 7,635,650 517,151,628 84,403,224 1,655,705 1,752,360.970 43,789,090 1,796,150,060 539,394,614 6,711,060 546,105,674 87,366.952 2,577,200 1,790,901,437 57,502,715 1,848,404,152 569.865,007 10,266,200/580,131,207 91,211,159 2,756,300 4,826,813,885 39,683,575 1,866,497,460 591,599,075 7,969,400 599,508,475/100,495,455 1,689.600 Fer capite assessed value (1917) of realty-Manhattan, $1,879; Bronx, $1,169: Brooklyn, $896; Queens, $1,475; Richmond, $905: average, whole city, S1,422. Per capita value of land alone-Manhattan, $1.132 Bronx. $572: Brooklyn, $404; Queens, $758; Richmond, $421; whole city, average, $785. NEW YORK CITY BUDGETS, 1899-1919. The 1919 budget calls for $45,121,163 for education, $20,671,579 for Police Department, $10,814,666 for the Fire Department, $3,932,292 for the Health Department, $5,794,963 for Charities. $2,042,074 Ier Correction, $2,415,233 for Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, $11,240,668 for Street Cleaning, $6,894,792 for the Water Department, $2,785,440 for upkeep, etc., of bridges: $10,540,791 for Borough expenditures (highways, sewers, paving, etc.); $1,726,095 for the Board of Elections: debt service (interest, etc.). 877931,938: direct State tax, 88.522,630. Prior to 1967 the amounts to cover probable deficiencies in tax collections were added directly to the tax levy and did not appear as budget items. 850 Real Estate Exempted From Taxation in New York City. NEW YORK CITY ASSESSED VALUES AND TAX LEVIES 1897-1918. YEAR. 1897.. 1898.. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907.. 1908.. Dollars. Tax Levy. Grand Totals. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 12,389,399,987 74,949,690) 2,464,349,677 419,679,395 2,884,029,072] 45,332,402 4,455,441,974 78,288,835 2,533,730,809 548,987,900 3,082,718,709 47,356,863 2.837,461,039 94,984,425 2,932,445,464 545,906,565 3,478,352,029 86,179,794 2,918,986,004 29,892,345|219,679,351 3.168,557,700 485,574,495 3,654,132,195 82,548,199 2,995,580,622 30,863,445 211,334,194 3,237,778,261 550,192,612 3.787,970,873 88,241,853 3,079,351,079) 30,676,345|220,620,155 3,330,647,579 526,400,139 3,857,047,718 88,178,612 4,487,399,006) 28,967,495 235,184,325 4,751,550,826 680,866,092 5,432,416,918 77,631,787 4,731,771,724 32,170,605 251,521,450 5,015,463,779 625,078,878 5,640,542,657 86,068,402 4,886,924,891 32,463,860 302,193,550 5,221,582,301 690,561,926 5,912,144,227 88,980,728 5,326,413,110 50,594,835 361,479,300 5,738,487,245 567,306,940 6,305,794,185 94,095,105 5,704,009,652 69,615,950 466,855,000 6,240,480,602|554,861,313 6,795,341,915 101,947.668 6,141,500,119] 88,425,200 492,490,470[6,722,415,789 435,774,611 7,158,190,400 116,541,091 6,257,352,379 75,825,425 474,001,900 6,807,179,704 443,320,855 7,250,500,559 122,742,630 6,491,335,999 87,447,075 465,409,600 7,044,192,674 372,644,825 7,416,837,499 131,474,976 7,211,325,769 166,496,295 481,018,100 7,858,840,164 357,923,123 8,216.763,287 142,237,757 7,279,579,651 169,170,440 413,148,799 7,861,898,890 342,963,540 8,204,862,430 150,956,702 7,387,237,104 180,549,176 438,861.581|8,006,647,861 325,418,440 8,332,066,301 151,786,264 7,458,784,625|186,654,976|404,420,311|8,049 859,912|340,295,560 8.390,155,472|150,503,894 7,527,890,627|200,897,090|379,973,070 8,108,760,787 352,051,755 8,460,812,542 160,295,797 7,568,649,179 213,820,520 425,352,662 8,207,822,361 376,530,150 8,584,352,511 176,381,879 7,570,367,350 222,614,005 461,567,645 8,254,549,000 419,156,315 8,673,705,315 177,067,174 17,672,715,813/227,448,940/439,474,098|s,339,638,851/251,414,875|8,591,053,726 198,232,811 NOTE-The valuations for the year 1897 have been ascertained as follows: In Manhattan and The Bronx from tax bills of 1897 and from information furnished by the Department of Taxes and Assessments; In the Boroughs of Brooklyn. Queens, and Richmond from the reports of the various Boards of Supervisors as verified by the expert_accountants of the City of New York. The valuations for year 1898 have been ascertained as follows: In Manhattan and The Bronx from the reports of the Department of Taxes and Assessments. In the Boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond as there was no tax levied in 1898, the valuations of the preceding year were repeated. The assessed valuations of real estate were increased in 1903 from a varying percentage theretofore of the full value to presumably the full value thereof 1909.. 1910. 1911. 1912.. 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. 1917. 1918.. The tax rate varies, by boroughs. In 1918 it was $2.36 per $100 of assessed valuation in Manhattan; $2.08 in The Bronx, $2.40 in Brooklyn, $2.41 in Queens, and $2.46 in Richmond. The State tax rate, as levied by the city in 1918, was 0.9852 mills, and amounted to $8,463,756. The city tax rate in 1917 was: Manhattan, $2.02: Bronx, $2.08: Brooklyn, $2.07; Queens, $2.09; Richmond, $2.12. REAL ESTATE EXEMPTED FROM TAXATION IN NEW YORK CITY. OWNED BY THE CITY. Education, Department of-Headquarters and Administration buildings, $1,214,500; colleges and Bites, $9,403,000; schools and sites, $116,703,910; total, $127,321,410. New York City Public Library system, $30,301,600. Parks, Department of-Central Park, $380,000,000; Prospect Park, $30,800,000; other parks, including structures, $274,975,965; total, $685,775,965. Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, Department of--Structures, sub and superstructures, lamp posts and appurtenances, water mains and hydrants, including Aqueduct, $96,627,250. Docks and Ferries, Department of-Piers, $110,698,400; bulkheads, $46,428,600; ferry houses, $15,325,225; water front, $2,029,750; lands under water, $4,912,525; grant to New York Central Railroad, $542,500; other property, $3,047,540; total, $182,984,540. Public Service Commission (Substructures, Superstructures, Etc.)-Rapid transit railway, $205,262,050. Public Buildings and Offices-Police Headquarters, $836,000; station houses, $7,480,400. Fire Department-Water mains, $5,790,000; fire-alarm system, $100,000; engine houses, 89,004,375. Armory Board -Armory sites, naval stations, etc., $15,469,500. Public Buildings and Offices-Municipal Bulding, 816,500,000: Court Houses and other public buildings not in parks, $21,194,600; Court House sites, $11,864,456. Public Charities, Department of Half of Blackwell's Island, $9,725,500; Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, $6,067,500; other properties, $26,593,800. Corrections, Department of-Half of Blackwell's Island, $9,725,500; Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, $516,500; other property, $4,479,000. Health, De partment of-North Brother Island, $500,000; Willard Parker and Reception Hospitals, $1,550,000; Kingston Avenue Hospital, Brooklyn, $435,700; other property, $366,500. Street Cleaning Department-Stables, etc.. $1,572,700. Highways, Bureau of-Corporation yards, etc., $959,750. Sewers, Bureau of-Substructures and superstructures, basins, pipes, culverts, etc., $83,355,780. Miscellaneous-Vacant lots, $322.280 other property, $1,624,835. Fire and Police Electric system, $1,435,000. Barge Terminal, $895,990. Total of property owned by city, $1,680,655,041. PROPERTY PRIVATELY OWNED. Churches, parsonages, Sunday schools, etc., $193,000,800; universities, colleges, schools, libraries, etc., $83,622,515; charitable homes, hospitals, asylums, etc., S$3,888,415; clergymen (exempt up to $1,500). $387,000; United States and city pensioners, exempt, $641,036; cemeteries, $36,337,925; Interborough Rapid Transit Company machinery, power houses, etc., $8,191,152; Municipal Railroad Company machinery, power houses, etc.. $140,000; total privately owned exempt property, $406,208,843. OWNED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK. State Arsenal, $755,000; armories, etc., $2,104,000; other State property, $4,914,415; total owned by State, $7.773,415. 'OWNED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Navy Yard, $15,137,000; Governor's Island, $6,800,000; General Post Offices, $17,784,500; Naval Hospital, etc., $1,000,000; Fort Totten, $1,250,000: Fort Hamilton, $1,750,000; Fort Wadsworth, $1,781,900: Fort Schuyler, $1,500,000; Light houses, $708.300; Custom House. 88,176,000; Barge Office, $850,000; Army Building, $810,000; Assay Office, $2,400,000; United States Sub-Treasury, $5,750,000: Appraisers Stores, $1,450,000; Quarantine Station, Staten Island, $1,206,000; other Federal property, $381,000; total United States property, $68,733,800. Grand total exempted property in the city, $2,163,371,099. Total assessed value of taxed realty in the city, 88.339,638,851. AS AT JANUARY 1. What New Yorkers Eat in a Year. CITY OF NEW YORK BONDED DEBT 1898-1918. 851 Holdings (Bonds.) 1898. £92,718,373 $229,187,140 1899. 99,386,291 1900. 359,620,986 105,754,871 1901.. 384,794,597 114,388,129 1902. 122,399,480 --1903, 137.142,948 1904. 142,121 103 1905. 139,330,352| 1906. 150,294,186 169,955,027| 943,802,347 183,000,000 11,925,425) 48,536 947 42,428,903 978,405,414206,000,000| 9,367,075 43,0 700 42,020.934 176,111,545 1,015,205,706,229,500,000 9,999,948) 26.04 20 43,284,252 1,214,948.477 193,749,437 1,025.799,0391254,500,000) 15,600,000l 39,074,300l 47,663,019 The special revenue bonds in 1918 (column 5). included $4,600,000 tax notes, redeemable from the 1918 tax levy. The interest on the city debt is payable from the tax levy. BONDED DEBT, CITY OF NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1898, AND JUNE 30, 1918. The Funded Debt as at December 31, 1897, or January 1. 1898, of the various municipalities LoW distinguished as Boroughs which were consolidated into and formed the Greater City of New York, was as follows: The above statement of the Funded Debt of The City of New York at consolidation considers and includes all of the funded debt of the former City of New York and of the municipalities in Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond, which was recorded as at the date of consolidation, and also such additional amounts as were recorded in subsequent years as being funded obligations of said former municipalities to be assumed by The City of New York. In other words, the foregoing table accurately sets forth the funded debt assumed by The City of New York as at consolidation, divided according to the Boroughs which constitute the Greater City, with the exception that the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx, having composed the former City of New York, are treated for the purposes of this table as one political entity. It may be noted from (a) that the funded debt of these former municipalities has been reduced (June 30, 1918), to $105,102,699.62. Of this amount the Sinking Funds hold $24,726,539.93, and $80,376,159.69 is held by the public. WHAT NEW YORKERS EAT IN A YEAR. (Estimated by Pure Food Division, Department of Health. Figures represent Pounds.) MEATS (beef, veal, pork, etc.), 684,315,000; fish, 57,031,250; poultry, 114,062,500; vegetables, 684,315,000; butter, 114,062,500; milk, 1,368,630,000; bread, 456,250,000; coffee, 57,031,250; tea, 28,515,625; fruit (including nuts), 228,125,000; sugar (including candy), 142,578.125; pastry, 114,062,500; salt, 57,031,250; fats, 57,031,250; cheese, 57,031,250; eggs, 142,578,125; canned goods, 171,093,750; total, 4,533,744,375. CENSUS OF FOOD-HANDLING PLACES IN NEW YORK CITY. Bakeries, 3,819; butcher shops, 6,840; butter and eggs, 365; cafes, 7,188; carbonated and mineral waters, 126; coffee and tea, 66; cold storage plants, 45; commission houses, 309; confectionery, 9,982; creameries shipping raw milk, 750; cream and condensed milk, 750; dairies (outside city), 50,000; dairies (certified milk), 37; dairies (within city), 115; dairies (Grade A, raw), 40; dairies (stores), 439; delicatessen, 4,000; department stores, 19: distributing milk plants, 600; drug stores, 2,500; eggs, 185; egg-breaking establishments, 3; fat rendering plants, 2; fish, 990; frozen products, 79; fruit and vegetables, 2,549; groceries, 13,808; hotels, 536; liquors, 533; markets, 97; milk platforms, 12; milk wagons, 7,000; miscellaneous, 470; pasteurlzing plants (city), 60; pasteurizing plants (outside city), 450; piers and wharves, 108; poultry, 91; push carts, 10,000; railroad terminals and ferries, 32; restaurants, 4,627; cattle slaughter houses, 30: poultry slaughter houses, 200; smoke house and meat preserving, 163; stands, 4,000; stock, yards, 1: supply houses. 23; syrup, 38: warehouses, 148; general produce, 270; total, 133.620. |