68 



been during the present month. The table following contrasts the ages at 

 death of the present naonth, with the seven preceding Junes, and with the 

 previous month of May : — 



One more death registered since the May report was drawn 



The greatest proportion of the mortality this month has fallen upon those under 

 20 years old, and those above 60. The deaths between 20 and 60 years of age 

 (16) are less than in any of the Junes in the table, except 1860 (14), and 1858 

 (10), The maximiun year of mortality, 1861, had more deaths at 1 to 5 years 

 of age, and 20 to 45 ; an equal number at 5 to 20 ; but less in all the other gi'oups 

 of ages. It must not, however, be forgotten, that the relative proportion of 

 the living population in each group of ages, is annually varying, and with a 

 general tendency to an increase of those under 14 years of age, and those above 

 60. By exhibiting the number dying in each year in the five great classes of 

 disease, as in the following table, it will be seen what type of sickness has been 

 most induced by the meteorological character of the month : — 



Classes of 

 Disease. 



1 Zymotic 



2 Constitutional 



3 Local 



4 Developmental 



5 Violent 



Junes. 



«0 ILLj OD CO 

 00 igi-H 00 



Ci '00 

 00 OO 



23 I 211 

 7 9!l0 10 



25 2021 17 

 3 I 4 6 7 

 110 5 



48 48 53 59 i36 48 47 32 46 1-7 



.3*^ 



I. 



t-af 



9 3-7 

 7 3-7 

 21 5-7 

 5 1-7 

 2 3-7 



Zymotic deaths are little more than one half the seven years' average, and only 

 two out of the seven had fewer. This is a true test of the general atmospheric 

 purity of the present month. One of the deaths, however, in all probability, 

 was due to habitual breathing of a locally poisoned atmosphere. 



Constitutional deaths are also less than the seven years' average. Of the six 

 recorded, four were cases of Consumj^tion. One of the number being a native 

 bom youth. The deaths in the local class are greatly beyond the seven years' 

 average,and more than any Jvme of the seven. This augmentation arose from 

 the comparatively large amount of deaths from convulsions, and diseases of the 

 organs of circulation and respiration, the latter having the unusually large 

 number of 14 deaths, (the previous month had only 4. ) These were all from 

 the prevailing catarrh, and its inflammatory sequences, bronchit^, pleuritis, 

 and pneumonia, the causes for which have been indicated in the meteorological 

 analysis. The developmental class had somewhat more deaths than the 7 years' 

 average. Four out of the six deaths were from old age, respectively aged 62, 

 72, 85, 92, the last being an invalid at the Brickfield's Asylum. The fifth class, 

 violent and accidental deaths, had considerably more than the seven years' 

 average. Of the four deaths, one was a child, killed by a cart running over him ; 

 another was a girl, accidentally burnt by her clothes igniting from a bonfire ; 

 the third was a saUor, found drowned ; and the fourth died from lock-jaw 

 (traumuti^ tetanus J from a slight wound, but in a constitution probably pre- 

 disposed from occupation and habits. 



