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but'Jid not piopoily come wilbin tliis Hegistratiuu-Jiatrict, haviri|{ beoa 

 broui^lit from a coiiiitiy tlistricl when dying, after be in 2; ill many days. 



Constitutwnal >liscascs caused a mortality slightly aljove the average. One 

 lK>y, nine years old, bad been sufFering for years and the case considered so 

 hopeless, that no medical practitioner had been called to see bim for three years 

 })ast. The other six were all cases of consumptiou, aged respectively, 15,18, 

 2"!, 3", 1 », 5^. The two youir^est, and tlie one 'M yens old, were all l)orn iu 

 Tasmania. Two of them were employed in Ijusmess that causes a higher lata 

 of deaths iu England from consumption, than any other occupation. Decom- 

 ber 1864 bad five deaths from this disease, two of them being Tasmanians. 



The Loral class of diseases had little more than half the average of deatha, 

 or of what occurred in the previous month of November. ISlo December 

 of the piev (>us (<ii;lit bad anythin'j: near so small a mortality iu this class. 

 The 1st order, disea.fcs of (he brain and ncifovs sfistcm, bad more than half 

 of the whole mortality, i.e, 0. ' hree from apoplexy, two from convulsions, 

 7 and 8 days old only, um\ one fvom bi'ain-dismse. This class in December 

 1801 had one-third more deaths. In the 2ud order, diseases of the heart and 

 oyans of circulation, two deaths occurred, I8(i5 had the same in uumber. In 

 the 3rd order, diseases of the langs and respiratory organs, there was only 

 one death, a man aged 64, from a clu'ouic affection. 186 1 had only one death 

 iu this order and of a still older person In the 4tli order diseases of the 

 stomach and organs of digestion, the deaths weie alike iu both Decembers— 2. 

 Last year had a death iu the 5th order, but there were not any in this year's 

 December. 



In the Developmental class of diseases, the mortality was below the average, 

 though two other years of the eight had as small a number. All three were 

 from old age, respectively 83, 84, 8.5 years old. 



Iu the 5th class Violent and Accidental, one, a man of 30. was murdered by 

 fracture of the skull, &c. ; the other, a child three months old, was suffocated, 

 overlaid in bed. Hoth the previous Decembers had the same uumber of deaths 

 in this class, but the eight j'ears' average is nearly twice the amount. Inquests 

 were 4 beiugtwice asmany as in Decern i ler ]S64. In Hospital there died, inclu- 

 sive of one of the inquest cases, o ly 6 ; and two of them were from countiy 

 districts. In I 'ecfemberl864 the hospital deaths were 10. At the Male Invalid 

 Asyluin two deaths occuried, aged 55 and 84. Last year had six deaths. A 

 female-invalid, 85 years old, died at the Cascades establishment. Of the 30 

 deaths, 16 were males, 14 females, — a normal proportion. Three died in the 

 Glenorchy division of the Registration district, the rest in the city. Ou 

 eleven days of the month no deaths occuiVed, and the greatest number on any 

 day was three. In the first week the deaths wei^e 6 ; in the second, 7 ; in the 

 third 6 ; m fourth, 8 ; in the last three days, 3. Never before were the deaths 

 so equally distributed in weeks. The most fatal period of the month was 

 the four days, 26th to 29th, when 9 deaths occurred. One was accidental, but 

 all the others were from diseases of long standing. On the 26th, atmospheric- 

 pressure was at the maximum of the month. On the27tb, both sun and shade 

 temperature were at the highest, as well as elastic-force of vapour. Ou the 

 28th, the 7 a.m., temperature, and the wet-bulb and terrestrial-radiation ther- 

 mometer gave the highest record for the month. From the 24th to the end of 

 the month no rain fell. No other four consecutive days had more than 6 

 deaths. 



The Births registered were 6] , being five less than in 1864, 



