80 



an exception), tho deaths in the Robarton Registration District amounted 

 to 150 ; being 2) less than the average for the same quarter of the preceding 

 eight years. Our more than usually cold summer, therefore, has been highly 

 favorable to health and life, though at times not very agreeable to the feelings. 



For all the Registration Districts of the Island the births registered in the 

 first quarter of 1865 were :— 404 males, 348 females, total 752 ; being 32 more 

 than in 1864, and the excess all in males. 



The deaths during the same period were :— 17$ males, being 32 less than in 

 1864 ; 148 females, or 18 more than last year ; total 326, being 14 less than 

 the first three months of 1864, and 9 J less than the average of the previous 

 seven (7) years, and less than anyone of them. The mortality has fallen off 

 in every year's first quarter consecutively, though 1861-2-3 differed very 

 slightly. 



