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being handed over to the Colonial Government, the annual death-rate was about 

 six times as much as that of the present year. In two years of the nineteen, 

 (lately most incorrectly eulogised in a communication to the press, for the 

 perfect management the Institution then exhibited), — 1853-1854 — the deaths 

 were respectively 10 and 53, while the daily strength averaged only about 476 

 and 424 respectively. In 1853 all the ten deaths were above four years old, but 

 in 1854, fifteen out of the fifty -three deaths were under three years of age. In 

 1843, when the maximum of deaths in this Institution (54) took place, out of 

 an average daily strength of about 492 I -7 ; only six of them were below three 

 years old, that is between two and three. The saving of life, therefore, in the 

 five years since the improvements introduced into this establishemnt at the 

 close of 1859— principally in the dietary— has been about 65, a large number 

 indeed, but not so many as there might have been had the deaths in the first 

 two of the five years been as low as the last three have been. 



Of the 43 deaths this month, 4 died in the Glenorchy division of the district, 

 the rest in the city. Twenty -nine were males, 14 females, being an undue 

 proportion of the former. No deaths took place on the 12th and 30th, and the 

 greatest number on any day was 4 on the 28th. The most fatal period of the 

 month was the three days 26th to 28th inclusive, when eight deaths took place. 

 The next in number was 6 from 20th to 22nd. In the first week of the month 

 the deaths were 10, in the second 7, in the third 12, in the fourth 13, in the 

 last two days 1 . 



The registered births were 77, being 33 more than were registered ia 

 November, 1863 



