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or otiier zymotic disease, which ravaged Cardiff, Llantriisaint, 

 Merthyr Tydfil, Aherdare, Neath, Swansea, &c. 



In the second quarter the nnmher of deaths was 110,006 against 

 118,121 and 110,899 in the same three months of 1863 and 1864 

 respectively. The returns of London in the last three springs dis- 

 covered, as regards absolute numbers, a near approach to identity ; 

 but those of the kingdom generally showed a decrease in the spring 

 of 1865 ; Wales, and some northern parts of England, where 

 epidemic diseases have been rife, or active industrial operations 

 have attracted population, being the only important exceptions. 

 The singularly fine weather exercised a beneficial influence on the 

 l^ublic health; and the effect would doubtless have been more 

 marked in the death registers if the preceding March had been less 

 cold and ungenial. The winter months, and especially March, were 

 as remarkable for cold as the late spring season was for heat ; and 

 many bronchial affections, which the former period transmitted, ran 

 their course to a fatal termination after the propitious change of 

 ■weather had begun. The following counties may be mentioned 

 amongst those which exhibited a decrease of deaths : Hampshire, 

 Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridge- 

 shire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, Cornwall, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, 

 Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Eutlandshiro, Cheshire, the East and 

 North Piidings of Yorkshire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. In 

 Lancashire the deaths in the spring quarter of 1803 and 1864 were 

 16,541 and 16,415 ; in last quarter 16,806. In the West Eiding of 

 Yorkshire they were in the same periods 10,469, 9991, and 10,431. 

 In South Wales they were 3871, 4056, 4779. 



In England the annual rate of mortality for the June quarter was 

 2*220 per cent, (deaths to a hundred persons living) against an 

 average of 2*191 for the corresponding quarter in ten previous years. 

 In 1803 and 1804 the rate was 2-308 and 2-200 per cent. 



The South-eastern Division, embracing Surrey, Kent, Sussex, 

 Hampshire, and Berkshire, was the most healthy ; for in it the rate 

 of mortality was only 1*882 per cent. The next in degree of health 

 was that which contains the Sotith Midland Counties, where the 

 mortality was 2-002. In four other divisions, viz., the Eastern, 

 South AVestern, West Midland, and North Midland Counties, it did 

 not rise as high as 2*1 per cent. In the North-western Counties 

 (Cheshire and Lancashire), in Y'orkshire, and Wales, it was but 

 little under 2-5 per cent. The Eegistrars of Welsh districts, as in 

 the previous quarter, reported measles, scarlatina, and small-pox as 

 diseases that had been prevalent and fatal. 



