Fort Dearborn established. CHICAGO AT A GLANCE. .1803 Fire engine companies-128. .1831 Town of Chicago incorporated... August, 1833 Great fire (loss $200.000.000).Oct. 8-9. 1871 1873 Incorporated under general law April 23, 1875 Savings bank crash. .1877 .1893 Sept. 26-30, 1903 ..July 24, 1915 July 27-Aug. 2. 1919 Population (Jan. 1, 1925)-2.964.875. all purposes Appropriations. (1924)-$170. 951,013.94. Area in square miles-204.88. Assessed valuation, total all property (1923) Assets, fixed (1923)-$275,317,722. Banks, national and state, in Chicago and sub- Boulevards, mileage of-84. Building permits issued (1923)-15,494. Churches, chapels and missions-1.200. Debt gross funded (1923)-$61,045,900. Employes on city pay roll (1923)-34,604. Firemen, number of, including officers-2.455. Fire engines-128. Imports of merchandise (1924)—$45,599.189 Length of city, north to south, miles-26. Mail, pieces of, handled, fiscal year (1924) - Manufactures in 1919, value of product$3,658,740,000. Medical schools-29. Newspapers and periodicals-800. Postal receipts, year ended June 30, 1924- Postal savings banks depositors Pupils enrolled in public schools 474,945. (1924) (1924) Railroads (divisions not included) entering Chicago-27. Real estate transfers (1923)-85,678; consid- Revenue, municipal (1922)-$133,821,875.60. personal Streets and alleys, total mileage-5,160. GOVERNMENT REPORT ON CHICAGO FOOD PRICES. [From the Monthly Labor Review of the bureau of labor statistics.] ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925. Year. 1844.. 1845.. Per 1,000 lation. Deaths. of pop. 336 33.04 344 28.46 1846.. 1847.. 1848.. 1849.. 1850.. 1855.. 1856.. CHICAGO MORTALITY STATISTICS. [From reports of health department.] PopuPer 1,000 lation. Deaths. of pop. Year. 1872.. 367,396 10,156 27.64 1873.. 380,000 1874.. 395,408 16,859 572 33.93 1875.. 400.500 7,899 19.72 20.023 638 31.86 1876.. 407.661 8,573 21.03 23.047 1,701 73.80 1877.. 430.000 8.026 18.67 29.963 1,467 48.96 1878.. 436.731 7.422 16.99 1851.. 34.000 927 27.26 491,516 8.614 17.53 1852.. 38.734 503.185 10.462 20.79 1853.. 59.130 540.000 14,101 26.11 1854.. 65.872 560.693 13.234 23.60 580,000 11,555 19.92 629.885 12,471 19.80 665.000 12.474 18.76 703.715 13.699 19.47 760.000 15.409 20.27 1888.. 802.651 15,772 19.65 1889.. 935,000 16.946 18.12 1890..1,099.850 21,856 19.87 1891..1.148.795 27,754 24.16 1892..1.199.730 26.219 21.85 1893..1.253.022 27,083 21.61 1894..1.308.682 23,892 18.26 1895..1.366.813 24.219 17.72 1896..1.427.527 23.257 16.29 1897..1,490.937 21.809 14.63 1898..1.557.164 22.793 14.64 1857.. SUMMARY FOR 1923 AND 1922. Per 1,000 Year. lation. Deaths. of pop. 1899..1,626,333 25.503 15.68 1900..1.698.575 24.941 14.68 1901..1,751,968 24.406 13.93 1902..1.801.255 26.455 14.69 1903..1.850,542 28.914 15.62 1904..1.899.829 26.311 13.85 1905..1,949,116 27.212 13.96 1906..1,998,403 29.048 14.54 1907..2.047.690 32,198 15.72 1908..2.096,977 30.388 14.49 1910..2,195,551 33,241 15.14 1909..2,146,264 31,296 14.58 1911..2.244,835 32.672 14.55 1912..2.294.120 33.998 14.68 1913..2.344.018 35.298 15.06 1914..2,393,325 33.952 14.19 1915..2.447.845 34.894 14.25 1916..2,497.722 36.410 14.53 1917..2.547.201 38,055 14.90 1918..2,596,681 44.605 17.17 1919..2.674.921 33.666 12.59 1920..2.728.022 34.841 12.74 1921..2.780,655 30,819 11.08 1922..2,833,288 31,700 11.18 Note-The population is for 1923..2.886,971 33,771 11.70 midyear. Rate per Rate per Rate 10.000 dec. pop. 1922. pop. 1923. 57 0.197 31 0.109 *0.088 1 0.003 15 0.053 0.050 Measles 206 0.713 152 0.536 *0.177 Scarlet fever 84 0.291 110 0.388 0.097 Whooping cough 137 0.474 97 0.342 *0.132 Diphtheria 365 1.264 561 1,980 0.713 Influenza 428 1.482 317 1.119 *0.363 Dysentery 4 0.013 4 0.014 0.001 Other epidemic diseases 8 0.026 10 0.035 0.009 Tetanus 20 0.069 21 0.074 0.005 Pellagra 2 0.006 2 0.007 0.001 Tuberculosis of lungs 2,008 6,955 1,910 6.741 *0.214 Other forms of tuberculosis. 327 1.132 310 1.094 *0.038 Cancer 2.964 10.266 2,800 9.882 *0.384 Diabetes 627 2.172 623 2.199 0.027 Meningitis, simple 41 0.141 100 0.352 0.211 Cerebro-spinal fever. 32 0.111 27 0.095 *0.016 Acute anterior poliomyelitis 4 0.013 15 0.053 0.040 Cerebral hemorrhage 1,723 5.968 1,563 5.517 *0.451 Convulsions (infants) 5 0.017 8 0.028 0.011 Heart diseases (all). 5.547 19.214 5.498 19.405 0.191 Bronchitis, acute 278 0.963 233 0.822 *0.141 Bronchitis, chronic Pneumonia (all forms) Under 2 years Over 2 years 80 0,277 0.437 124 0.160 3.745 12.972 2,779 9.808 *3.164 Diarrhea and enteritis 0.601 134 0.464 153 0.540 0.07 Appendicitis and typhlitis 555 1.922 505 1.782 *0.14 Cirrhosis of liver 269 0.932 228 0.805 *0.12 Nephritis, acute 81 0.280 66 0.233 *0.04 Nephritis, chronic 2,656 9.199 2.247 7.931 *1.26 Puerperal septicemia 91 0.315 56 0.198 0.11 Congenital defects and malformations 2.281 7.901 2,313 8.164 0.26 Suicide 386 1.337 398 1.405 0.06 Accidents 2.095 7.257 2,040 7.180 *0.07 Homicide 389 1.347 331 1.168 *0.17 Sunstroke and heat exhaustion. 17 0.058 17 0.060 0.00 Legal execution 1 0.003 1 Other causes of death 5.100 17.665 4.787 9 4.883 1.691 4,850 4.783 0.011 0.0 Rate per 1,000 pop. 0.003 16.896 *0.70 1.712 0.0 1,003 0.347 992 0.350 0.0 994 .0.344 997 0.345 0.0 804 0.278 864 0.305 0.0 1.152 0.399 1.120 0.395 *0.0 2.375 0.822 2.241 0.791 *0.0 I. N. Arnold. CHICAGO CITY CLERKS SINCE 1837. 1837 A. J. Marble.......1861-1862 | Charles D. Gastfield 1893-1895 George Davis.. 1837-1838 H. W, Zimmerman..1863-1864 J. R. B. Van Cleave.1895-1897 William H. Brackett Thomas Hoyne..... E. A. Rucker 1839 Albert H. Bodman..1865-1869 1840-1841 Charles T. Hotchkiss1869-1873 1843 Jos. K. C. Forrest..1873-1875 1844-1845 Caspar Butz. 1876-1878 1845 P. J. Howard. ..1879-1883 Henry B. Clarke....1846-1847 1. G. Neumeister... 1883-1885 Sidney Abell. ....1848-1850 C. Herman Plautz..1885-1887 H. W. Zimmerman..1851-1856 D. W. Nickerson...1887-1889 H. Kreisman .1857-1859 Franz Amberg......1889-1891 1860 J. R. B. Van Cleave.1891-1893 Abraham Kohn..... .1905-1907 William Loeffler.... James T. Igoe......1917-1923 |