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oldest noted in the registry for the present March, was a woman 98 years old, 

 who retained her ordinar}' faculties to the last, tottering about until the very 

 day of her deatli. 



^Classes of Disease 



lOJl. Zymotic 



9 2. Constitutional H 

 29.3. Local 



5 4. Developmental 



3 5. Violent, &c 



56 



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<1 "^ 



18 7-8 

 8 2-8 



19 4-8 

 6-58 

 3 1-8 



56 3-8 



In the Zymotic class, the deaths were but little more than half of the eight 

 years' average, and less than half of those in March, 1864. Nine out of the 

 ten deaths were from hoioel complaints, while last year these diseases caused 

 26 out of the 35, in the Zymotic class. The Constitutional class of the diseases 

 had slightly morethan the average. Five of the nine were from Consumption, 

 and of those one was Tasmanian born, a boat-builder by occupation, and aged 

 22 years. The class of Local diseases was rather more than one third higher 

 than the eight years' average, and a trifle more than that above the number in 

 the same class in March 1864. The Brain and Nervous >S?/s?cm had 11 deaths in 

 the present March, but only eight last year. -The Heart and Circulatory 

 System five this year, four last. The Lungs and Respiratory System, seven in 

 this month, 2 only in March 1864. The Digestive System, four this March, only 

 two last year. The Urinary System, two deaths in both years, ^he Reproductive 

 System, no death this year, but onein 1864. The Developmental class had con- 

 siderably less deaths than the eight years' average, and a still smaller propor- 

 tion to that of last year. Four, of the five deaths, were from old age ; the other 

 was a babe only four months old. In the class of Accidaital and Violent deaths 

 the number was a fraction below the average. Of the three, one, a babe of 

 six months old, owed its death to suffocation from the fault of drunken 

 parents ; the second, an old woman of 74, died in Hospital from burns, 

 caused by the ashes falling from the pipe she was smokmg; the third, a man 

 of 55, was killed by a spar falling and fracturing his skull, while he was 

 kindly aiding others in lifting it out of a cart. 



Eight (8) Inquests were held this month, I\Iarch 1864 had only 5. 



In Hospital the deaths were 16, including one of the inquest cases. Of these, 

 three were brought to hospital from country districts ; and one, a young 

 South Sea Islander, from a whaler in the harbor. In March, 1864, the hospital 

 mortality was only 12. At the Male Invalid Asylum, Brickfields, two died, 

 aged respectively 50 and 66. In 1861 there was only one, A female invalid, 

 aged 81 years, died at the Cascades establishment. 



Of the 56 deaths, 26 were males, 30 females, a complete reversing of the or- 

 dinary proportions of the sexes. Of the 56 deaths,ojly two died in Glenorhcy, 

 and one in Queenborough, electoral districts, the rest in the city. 



In the first week of the month 15 deaths occurred; in the second, 14; in 

 the third,- 10 ; in the fourth, 10 ; in the last three days, 7. 



On the 9th, 13th, and 25th, no deaths took place. On any two consecutive 

 days, the greatest number of deaths were 0, on the 11th and 12th. The most 

 fatal period of the month was from the 10th to 12th inclusive, when 12 deaths 

 took place. 



The births registered were 70, while in March, 1864, only 58 were recorded. 



For the first, and usually the most fatal quarter of the year, (though 1S64 was 

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