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l>er thousand per annum, being half per cent, less than that of the healthiest 

 ivgistratiDH district of England and Wales. 



It is wortliy of note to remark, that while the month of March has been so 

 much more unfavorable to health in Tasmania than February and January were 

 this ditforence did not exist on the Australian Continent. March, in Victoria, 

 was (I gather from the weekly health reports of its able Registrar-General) 

 quite iu? favorable as the two previous months. It becomes therefore an interest- 

 ing prol)lem to solve, (by ascertaining the peculiar climatic differences during 

 the period), what atmospheric condition or conditions varied so mach, as to 

 give the clue to the cause ? In the absence yet of the published meteorological 

 tables for Victoria, I cannot make a rigid comparative analysis, but generally I 

 believe, the greater rain-falls on the Australian continent, contrasted with 

 ours so much below the mean, affords oae striking exemplification of the prob. 

 able caujse or causes, 



F. ABBOTT, 



