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authorities that the yards had never been so well cleansed, the 

 Sanitary Association instituted enquiries into the condition, 

 during the same season, of New York and Boston, and analyzed 

 the returns on the cemetery sheets to ascertain during what 

 period of life the special mortality prevailed. The following are 

 the results. 



21. Analysis of Childreiis Deaths in Montreal, for 

 the year 1867. 



Under 



I year, 



(including 



201 blanks, 



or 

 still-born.) 



Interments of children 



Or, per year of life 



Condition, according to the 



prophecy of Isaiah 



Proportion of total deaths per 



year of life ; one in 



2,063 

 2,063 



4,46s 

 203.0 



It is evident, therefore, that the children from 5 years upward 

 are remarkably healthy in this city, the principal reason being 

 that all the moribund children are killed off at an earlier age. 

 It is thost. children who are confined to the house or to its 

 immediate surroundings who are, in this city, so peculiarly 



