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1c Baltimore City Health Department WEEKLY LETTER TO THE MAYOR In his WEEKLY LETTER TO THE MAYOR dated May 19, 1972, the Commissioner of Health wrote: Dear Mayors Because of funds generously donated by Dulaney High School students, the Baltimore City Health Department is now supplying iron-fortified formula for babies in that section of east Baltimore served by the Comprehensive Children and Youth Project 606C of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. These funds became available because some senior students of Dulaney High School were impressed with a film "Poverty In America" shown in their social studies class. They set up donation boxes and held assemblies to encourage students to give to help the poor. A total of $991 was collected and turned over to the Maryland Food Committee, a private, volunteer organisation interested in better nutrition for the poor. The Food Committee chose to use these funds to sponsor the iron-fortified formula program of the Children and Youth Project at 1017 E. Baltimore Street. Dr. Shi Shung Huang, director of the Children and Youth Project, explained he hopes to reach 100 to 150 children with the formula program. Babies are eligible if they live within the Project 6o6c area and are less than six months old. The formula will be supplied to these infants until they are nine months old. Since the program began April 6, 25 babies have received the liquid formula, but Dr. Huang expects this number to increase quickly as more mothers learn of the formula availability. Mothers may obtain the formula at 1017 E. Baltimore Street any weekday between 8:30 A.M. and 5s00 F.M. A- case of liquid iron-fortified formula usually costs about $9 in Baltimore City. Mothers are asked to pay $1 for the same amount and the money so collected is used to buy more: formula. If anyone wishes further information about the iron-fortified formula program, they should call 828-2LL8. Very truly yours, (Signed) Robert E. Farber, M.D. Commissioner of Health B N12000 BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT STATISTICAL REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 18, 1972 WK. 20 BIRTHS Total recorded Residents only DEATHS Total recorded Residents only INFANT DEATHS Total recorded Residents only BIRTHS Total recorded Residents Only DEATHS Total recorded Residents only INFANT DEATHS Total recorded Residents only WEEKLY SUMMARY OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND INFANT MORTALITY Week Ending May 18, 1972 Week Ending May 20, 1971 TOTAL 380 246 WHITE 209 86 NONWHITE TOTAL N U M BEE 171 395 160 27 5 WHITE 234 114 NONWHITE 161 161 246 186 184 128 60 241 56 189 143 95 98 94 14 11 41 3 11 37 5 1 6 6 7,624 5, 159 4,973 4,002 153 97 CUMULATIVE NUMBER FOR YEAR TO DATE 4,284 2,072 3,340 3,087 8,819 6,060 4,9 38 2,419 3,260 2,368 1,713 1,634 5,065 4,109 3,401 2, 530 81 30 ' 72 67 213 17 4 92 59 3,881 3,641 1,664 1, 579 121 115 BIRTHS DEATHS INFANT MORTALITY 15.0 11.6 18.8 RESIDENT RATES* FOR YEAR TO DATE 11.6 13.3 14.5 18.5 9.8 21.7 17.5 11.9 28.7 . 13.2 13.8 24.4 22.3 9.7 31.6 *BIRTH AND DEATH RATES PER 1,000 POPULATION! INFANT MORTALITY RATE PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHSi ALL RATES COMPUTED ON.AN ANNUAL BASIS LIA-76114 ------------- - WEEKLY STATISTICAL "BEPORT CASES OF REPORTABLE DISEASES, NON-RESIDENTS EXCLUDED WEEK ENDING May 18, 197 2 DISEASE Tuberculosis, active..................................... Syphilis, primary and secondary..... Gonococcal infections..................................... Infectious hepatitis..................................... Meningococcal infections........................ Meningitis, other................................... .. Encephalitis, infectious............................. Measles......................................................................... German measles................. .................................... Mumps..................... ......................................................... Chickenpox..................... ............................................ Diphtheria.................................................................. Vt'hooping cough....................................................... Streptococcal infections............................. Poliomyelitis (paralytic cases)........... Typhoid fever......................................................... Sa Impne 11 os is ........ ............................. .. Dysentery............................. . . . ..................... .. Diarrhea and enteritis............................. .. Lead poisoning.............................. ....................... Influenza.................................................................. .. Other reportable diseases...................... CASES CURRENT WEEK 5 7 .222 10 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 0 0 9 0 0 13 6 0 1 0 35 7 YEAR RANGE* HIGH 25 9 241 9 4 4 2 32 8 25 27 0 1 5 0 0 9 10 1 2 0 -- LOW 10 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - YEAR TO DATE CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF CASES 1972 1971 20 4 188 4,052 148 6 13 3 2 11 74 156 0 2 185 0 0 184 97 3 1 12 511 200 128 3,936 134 7 20 0 11 28 220 186 0 7 146 0 0 17 0 258 4 5 2 528 MORTALITY BY MAJOR CAUSES, NON-RESIDENTS EXCLUDED CAUSE OF DEATH CURRENT WEEK TOTAL 7 YEAR RANGE* HIGH LOW YEAR TO DATE CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF DEATHS 1972 1971 All Causes......... ...................... ..................... 184 219 175 4, 002 4, 109 Diseases of the heart.................... Cancer, all forms................ ....................... Cerebral hemorrhage................................... Diseases of the arteries and veins. Influenza and pneumonia................... .. Diabetes................ .. . ..................................... Cirrhosis of liver..................................... Tuberculosis (all forms)....................... Nephritis.......................................................... Puerperal causes.............................. .. Malformations and diseases of early infancy..................................... Suicides......... ............. .. . . .............. .. Homicides..................... ........... .. ..................... Accidents Home. .......................................... ............... Industrial ..................... ...................... Automobile.......... .. Other public. ................................... .. . Other external causes.............................. Other specified causes............. 75 94 68 1,533 1,534 31 ' 47 30 733 7 37 19 17 6 279 313 3 9 4 110 129 6 11 3 100 102 8 8 4 142 126 9 7 3 162 121 i 2 1 34 27 1 3 0 26 12 0 10 1 2 1 19 4 74 132 1 2 0 33 33 3 80 115 96 1 30 . 55 58 0 2 0 1 17 1 6 0 33 47 1 2 0 18 21 0 - ' - 19 21 23 - 534 581 THE HIGH AND LOW FIGURES SHOWN ARE DERIVED FROM THE NUMBER OF CASES AND DEATHS;FOF COMPARABLE WEEK FOR THE PERIOD :S6S-'.97i LIA~76115