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but require no comment. But one death arose from violent or accidental 

 ■causes, i.e., a man aged 42, who in a state of intoxication fell down some steps, 

 was taken to Hospital in a state of insensibility, but having only slight external 

 marks of injury, (a mere bruise on the back of the head) he survived nine days 

 having recovered the powers of speech and locomotion, and eating well. The 

 post raortem examination revealed a very severe and extensive fracture of the 

 base of the skull (the sphenoid bone completely shattered) and a clot of blood 

 in the front part of the brain. The coroner's jury returned a verdict in accord- 

 ance with the medical evidence, accidental death from, a fall. Three inquests 

 took place, while the previous month had not one, though May 1863 had 7. 

 Of the 47 deaths, 4 occurred in the Glenorchy and 3 in the Queenborough 

 districts, the rest in the city ; 25 were males, 22 females, being an unusual 

 equality of the sexes ; 10 deaths occurred in the Hospital, but 3 of them were 

 admissions from country districts, and 2 from the male Invalid Asylum. The 

 weekly number of deaths was unusully uniform, the first having 12, the second 

 9, the third 11, the fourth 10, and the last three days 5. On the 5th, 9th, 

 15th, 24th, not one death occurred; and the greatest number on any day was 4 

 -on the 16th. The most fatal perioci of the month was the four days, 16th to 

 19th inclusive, when 9 deaths took place ; within these days the barometer rose 

 + "717 of an inch, and the depression of temperature was great. 

 The registered births were 70, being +9 more than May 1S63 had. 



F. ABBOTT. 



