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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



[June 



A more simple mode of keeping the register having been 

 adopted at the suggestion of the writer, the following table has 

 been eliminated for the past year. The numbers in the first 

 column are included in the second, and both in the third. 



* A large propoition of these deaths were froni rougeole. It will be observed that 

 the children, being in the country, escaped the fatal scarlatina which ravaged the city 

 children in 1864, and also the unusual city mortality of July, 1867 ; also that last year 

 June was in excess of July, which has never happened in the city. It is marvelous to 

 observe that the coldest month is also the healthiest ; even for these children who are so 

 often received partially or entirely frozen, and so generally with insufficient clothing. 



t In consequence of the mode in which the register was kept previously to 1868, some 

 deaths of adults had been added-in with those of children ; and for so small a number, 

 distributed over the months, it was not thought needful to analyze the returns afresh. 



