one less. Seven out of the eleven hacl passed beyond their G5th year, the 

 oldest being a woman of 86. 



Zymotic Diseases caused considerably less deaths than one-half the nine 

 years' average. A girl, two years old, died of a low type oi fever. Four children 

 under 11 months old died of howel complaints, and a man age d 42 of Chronic 

 dysentery. 1864 is the only year that can show a more favorable report than 

 this, and its meteorological character was in some respects more favorable to 

 health than that of January 1866, generally auspicious, nevertheless, as the 

 latter has been. 



In the Constitutional class of diseases, the deaths were considerably below 

 the 9 years' average. This class, however, has never varied so widely in its 

 numbers as the other four classes have. Three of the 4 deaths were from 

 CowsM?np^to7i, and one of the number, aged 33, was born in Tasmania. The 

 fourth death was from %vater in the head, a child only six months' old. 



The Local class of diseases, gave 10 fewer deaths, than the average, though 



1864 had 14 less. Last year, however, had 10 more than the present. In the 1st 

 order of this class, (diseases of the brain and nervous system, the deaths were 

 only 4, last year had 7. In the 2nd order. Diseases of the heart and organs of 

 circziZa^iow, 2 deaths took place, 1865 had twice as many. In the 3rd order, 

 Diseases of the lungs and organs of respiration, but one death — a man aged 60 

 — was recorded, 1865 had 5, but 1864 had not even one. Nevertheless, so very 

 small a return for this order is very unusual, the more particularly, because 

 the average daily-range of temperature not only greatly exceeded that of the 

 years 1865 and 1864, but the mean of the 20 years' standard also. In the 4th 

 order diseases of the stomacli and organs of digestion, there were 4 deaths — 



1865 had one more. In the 5th order. Diseases of the urinary organs, there 

 was only one death, last year had 2. In the next order, this month had no 

 deaths, last year had one. In the 7th order, Diseases of the locomotive organs, 

 2 deaths were recorded from long standing affections of bones and joints — 1865 

 had no deaths in this order. 



The 4th, or Developmental class of diseases, had seven deaths, one an infant 

 only two weeks old and prematurely born, the other 6, all from old age. No 

 deaths from old age were registered in January, 1865, yet the actual deaths 

 above 60 years of age in that year's January and the present, only differ by one 

 numerically. 



In the 5th class, Violent deaths, d-c, no deaths were recorded, as was also 

 the case in 1865, though all the preceding eight years had from 1 to 4 each. 

 One Inquest only took place on a death in the present month ; Apoplexy from 

 Intemperance being the cause of death. Last year had also one. In the 

 Hospital there were 8 deaths, 1865 had 10. At the Male Invalid Asylum there 

 were no deaths, in 1865 there were 2. At the Cascades Factory a female 

 invalid died. 



