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Registrar of that city. Boston is far more crowded than Montreal, 

 with a much larger proportion of Irish lodging-houses, and with a 

 raw, damp climate. But " the sanitary laws are good, aud/aith- 

 fuVy executed." 



25. Comparative Sanitary Statistics of Boston, 1867. 



Average population of Boston for previous lo years 178,500 



Supposed " ' ' for 1867 196,000 



Total Yearly Deaths on the average of 10 years 2,474 



Or, per 1,000 0/ present population 12.7 



Deaths in highest month {A ugust) on average of 10 years 461 



Or, per 1,000 oj present i>op7dation, at yearly rate 0/ 28.2 



Deaths in lowest month {June) on average of 10 years 299 



Or, per 1,000 0/ present popjilation, at yearly rate of. 18.3 



Total Deaths during July, i866 4S2 



July, 1867 36s 



" August, 1867 452 



Deaths of infants under i year, July, 1S67 107 



" children between i and 5 years, July, 1867 62 



" " 5 and 10 years, July, 1867 18 



" infants under i year, Aug., 1867 158 



" children between i and 5 years, Aug., 1867 86 



" " S and 10 years, Aug., 1867 22 



Yearly rate of Deaths among 5,500 children under i year, July, 1S67, per 1,000. 233.0 

 " " 24,000 " 5 years, " " 84.5 



" " 43,000 " 10 years, " " 52.2 



Deaths from Cholera in/antjun, July, 1866 89.0 



Juiy. 1867 49.0 



By correcting these numbers according to the ratio of Montreal 

 population, it appears that the July deaths were here more than 

 three times those of Boston, although an unprecedented number 

 of families had left our city ; that of the total deaths in the year, 

 only 39 per cent in Boston are of children under 5 years, instead 

 of 65 per cent in Montreal ; and that of these only 24 per cent 

 in Boston were under one year, instead of 46 per cent in 

 Montreal. Of the children born in Montreal, two out of cverij 

 five died within the year. 



These being the frightful facts of the case, so far as they can 

 be at present ascertained, it becomes the duty of every thought- 

 ful citizen to enquire into their causes. 



The most evident of these is the fearful number of illegitimate 

 children each year thrown away by their unnatural and most 

 wicked parents, and placed under the fostering care of the Soeurs 

 Grises at their Foundling Hospital. The condition in which 

 they are received will be understood from the following table. 



