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ous in that year's April than in the present ; and that is the nicest test of the 

 salubrity of any season or climate. 



The total of the deaths of the present April, is eight below the average of 

 the previous eight years, and 16 less than April last year had. Moreover, it 

 is eighteen fewer than occurred in the previous month of jVIarch. " Under 

 five years of age" the deaths were little more than one-third of the eight years' 

 average, and not many above one-fifth of the nujaber that died in April 1864. 

 At " 5 to 20," however, the deaths were more than the average, though the 

 same in number as in April last year. At "20 to 45" the deaths were 

 more numerous than in 1864, though less than the eight years' average. The 

 same remarks apply to the group at "45 to 60." But at "all ages above 

 60" the mortality was nearly double both the eight years' average and last 

 years' numbers. Moreover, the previous month of March had exceeded the 

 average in a still larger proportion. The oldest person that died this month 

 was a man aged 80, but seven more of the 13 deaths had exceeded the "three 

 score and ten." 



Classes of Disease 



Aprils. 

 Min. 



^ 



-l^ CCi iM '1-1 O 00 J^ 

 GO, 00,00100 CO CO OD CO 



5 1. Zymotic 

 7 2. Constitutional 

 20 3. Local 



5 4. Developmental! 5 1 5 

 1 5. Violent 3 



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10 32 7| 9 17 

 9| 4 9i 51 4 



29 13 24 16 21 

 6 4 6 

 2 3; 



56 54 



48 



37 48 



I 



8 8 12 



6 710 



25 24 16 



3| 5 7 

 3 3 2 



4547,47 



42 



O ?!00 



12 5-8 

 6 4-8 



19 7-8 

 4 5-8 

 2 3-8 



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The class of Zymotic deaths never had so few in number as the present April 

 exhibits. It is considerably less than half the eight years' average, and but 

 little more than one-seventh of last April's mortality from this class of diseases. 

 Four of the five deaths were from bowel-complaints, three of them being 

 children aged respectively seven weeks, eleven months, and fourteen months. 

 The fifth, a man aged 41, was registered "probably from cold and intemper- 

 ance," therefore is classed alcoholismus. Last April, bowel-complaints caused 

 22 deaths; scarlet fever and diphtheria, 7 ; croup, fever, and pycemia, each 



The constitutional class of diseases caused a few fractions more deaths than 

 the average. Dropsy, cancer, scrofula, and tabes-mesenterica each caused 

 one death. Three were consumption, all British by birth. 



The local class of diseases scarcely differs from the eight years' average of 

 deaths, though it is considerably more than 1864 had. Diseases of the bram 

 and nervoiLs system had 7 of the 20 deaths. In 1864 this "order" had only 



