REMARKS. It appears that the number of deaths which occurred in this city last year, was 5,018, and the City Inspector states in his report that of these 875 were persons of colour. This is a little more than one sixth of the whole mortality, as according to the last census the proportion of our coloured population to the whites is nearly as one to fourteen, the whole number of inhabitants being 166,085, while that of persons of colour is only stated at 12,575. The deaths by consumption were 843, about one sixth part of the whole, and of these 118 were people of colour. This is a dreadful scourge; but it might often be prevented by a strict adherence to temperance, avoiding unnecessary exposure to cold, and suiting our apparel to the varying changes of the weather. A common catarrh, when neglected, often terminates in this frightful disease. The increase of deaths last year contrasted with that of the preceding, was 677, which, without referring to the increase of our population, was certainly owing to the excessive heat in the month of July, during the whole of which the weather continued to be hotter than in any preceding season for many years. CHAPTER III. A LIST of the places of public worship in this city, in the present year (1826) arranged in Alphabetical order, according to their respective denominations, shewing their locations, dimensions, dates, at which they were erected, enlarged or rebuilt, the names of their pastors, &c. &c. BAPTIST CHURCHES. 1st. THE FIRST BAPTIST Church is a stone building 65 by 80 5200 feet square, and was erected in 1769. Pastor the Rev. WILLIAM PARKINSON. 2d. The BETHEL BAPTIST Church in Delancey, corner of Christie-Street is a brick building 65 by 85=5525 feet square and was erected in the year 1819. This is the second Baptist Church in the city, and was organized in the year 1770. The Rev. Mr. JOHNSON CHASE is pastor. 3d. OLIVER-STREET Church, near Chatham-Street, a stone builing 64 by 946016 feet square, was erected in 1795; enlarged in 1800, and rebuilt in 1819. The Rev. Mr. SPENCER H. CONE is pastor. 4th. The ABYSSINIAN Church,* 42 by 60=2520 feet square, a frame building, was erected in Anthony, between Church and Chapel Streets, in the year 1805. Pastor, the Rev. Mr. BENJAMIN PAUL. 5th. BROOME-Street Church, near the Bowery Road, a frame building, 34 by 71=2414 feet square, was erected in 1806 and enlarged in 1817. Pastor the Rev. Mr. MARSH. 6th. MULBERRY-STREET Church, near Chatham-Street, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. ARCHIBALD M'CLAY, was erected in 1809, and rebuilt and enlarged in 1817. Dimensions, 63 feet in front by 90 in depth=5670 feet square. 7th. The BERIAH BAPTIST Church in Vandam-Street, 40 by 55 2200 feet square, is a frame building, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. AARON PERKINS, erected in 1810. 8th. YORK-STREET Church, directly in the rear of St. John's Church, is a frame building 27 feet by 40=1080 feet square and was erected in 1818. They have no regular ministers, any one of the members being at liberty to speak. 9th. The SOUTH BAPTIST Church, a stone building in Nassau-Street, between John and Fulton-Streets, 46 by 65= 2990 feet square and was built in 1803 by the Associate Presbyterian Church. In the year 1824, it was purchased by the aforesaid South Baptist Church, since which time they have occupied it as a house of public worship. The Rev. Mr. CHARLES G. SOMERS is pastor. 10th. PROVOST-STREET CHURCH, a frame building with a brick front, 40 by 60=2400 feet square, was erected by a Presbyterian Church, under the ministry of the Rev. JAMES G." OGILVIE; but in 1825, it was purchased by a Baptist Congregation, now under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Mr. THOMAS HAND. 11th. A church composed of a part of the members, who belonged to the York-Street Church and of others, who had joined them, formed themselves into a congregation in 1825. They are under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. WILLIAM OVINGTON, and worship in a large school room in Broadway, corner of Reed Street. 12th. The UNION BAPTIST Church under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL EASTMAN was opened in the year 1825, in a frame building 25 by 75=1875 feet square, in the Bowery, opposite Spring-Street. 13th. The church under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. JOHN C. MURPHY, has been organized since the year 1824, and now worship in a frame building 40 by 50-2000 feet square, * The Pastor and congregation are persons of colour. |