important fact is deducible from the table, i.e., that while the total deaths for 

 each year, since 1861, has been diminishing, those above 45 years of age have 

 scarcely varied, indeed in the present month increased. This arises from the 

 departure from the colony of so many healthy adults in the prime of life, 

 leaving the infirm and aged behind. 



Classes of Disease 



1. Zymotic 



2. Constitutional 



3. Local 



4. Developmental 



5. Violent 



JJ jO& a3 OO 00 ^ 





14 6-8 

 6 2-8 



24 2-8 

 6 

 2 5-8 



53 7-8 



The Zymotic class of deaths was considerably below the average, and less 

 than any year of the eight, except 1864. The ten deaths were : from diphtheria 

 1; puerperal-fever 1 ; dysentery 2 ; diarrhoea 4; (all the two last being children 

 at and under twelve months old :) delirium tremens 2. The latter disease is very 

 rarely registered thus, but gets recorded under other of its phases. 



The Constitutional class had less than half of its death average. Two of the 

 cases were registered consumption, one of the two, a man of 28, being bom in 

 Tasmania. The Local class had very nearly the average proportion of deaths, 

 but 14 more than 1861 had. A comparative contrast, therefore, between these 

 two will be instructive. In the 1st order, "diseases of the brain and nervous 

 system," this year had 7 deaths, 1864 had only 3, all from apoplexy ; while 

 this year's were, apoplexy 2 ; epilepsy 1 ; convulsions 2 (both under three weeks 

 old) ; brain disease 2. The 2nd order, " diseases of the heart and organs of 

 circulation" 4 ; 1864 had 3. The 3rd class " diseases of the lungs and organs 

 of respiration" (excluding consumption) 5; 1864 had not any. I before 

 remarked that the colder and more variable temperature of the present month 

 would account in a great measure for its excess of deaths over last January : in 

 these diseases, it is in part exemplified, though the effect was comparatively 

 small in the general population, the youngest of these persons being 47,and the 

 oldest 72 years old. In the 4th order " diseases of the organs of digestion," 

 5 died; 1864 had 4. In the 5th order, "diseases of the urinary organs," the 

 deaths were two this year, but not any last. The 6th order, " diseases of the 

 organs of reproduction," 1865 one, 1864 none. The Developmental Class had 

 one-thiird less than the average ; of the four deaths, three were under two 

 months old. No deaths in the class " Violent, &c„" took place, though the 

 January average is 2g, and January last year had one. There was but one 

 inquest on a deafch in this month, a man of 65 in the gaol, who died suddenly 

 from the bursting of aneurism of the aorta. No inquests were held in January 

 1864. In the Public Hospital 10 deaths took place ; 1864 had only 8. At the 

 Male Invalid Asylum two deaths occm-red, aged respectively 62 and 72 ; 

 January 1864 had only one. Of the 41 deaths this month, 22 were males, 19 

 females. In the Glenorchy and Queenborough divisions of the district, 8 died, 

 the rest in the city. The former is an unusually large proportion of the whole. 

 In the first week of the month there died 8 ; in the second, 6 ; in the third, 

 12 ; in the fourth, 7 ; in the last three days, 8. The greatest number on any 

 two consecutive days was 6, on the 20th and 21st, ah-eady alluded to for the low 

 temperature; but for three successive days, the heaviest mortality was on the 

 three last days of the month, 8. The hottest day of the month, was the 30th, 

 and on these three days the serial movement was less than the average of any 

 other three in the month. 



The births registered were 68, being one more than January 1864 had. 



