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average of the previous nine years. They were also less than any year of 

 the nine. At " 1 to 5 yeai's of age," never were the deaths so few, the average 

 being nearly eight times as many. At " 5 to 20 " the mortality was less than 

 one-third of the average, Juno 1865 had four times as many as the present 

 month, and only June 1800 had less. Of the 7 deaths at all ages under 20 years 

 old, 3 were under 5 weeks old, no year of the previous nine had so few, the 

 average being above 20 deaths, the range being from 13 in June 1865, to 33 in 

 1861. Therefore, notwithstanding the abnormal character of the weather in 

 the present month, it was by far the most favorable to life, for young 

 persons, of any previous June. "At 20 to 45 " the deaths were slighly below 

 the average, though many more than the Junes of 1865 and 1864 had. How- 

 ever, the present mouth had at all ages below 45, less considerably of deaths 

 than any of the previous nine years, except the last when it was numeri- 

 cally the same. At "45 to 60" the deaths were a trifle above the average, 

 but more than twice as numerous as in 1865. At " ages above 60 " the deaths 

 were more than three times as many as the nine years' average, exactly twice as 

 many as in 1 865, and largely above any year of the nine. Of the 24 deaths in 

 this group 5 were between 60 and 70; 5 in the next decade ; 7 in the next ; 

 one each in the following two ; and 5 between 80 and 90 ; the oldest being a 

 man aged 89 years, who died at the Invalid Asylum at the Brickfields. 



In the first, or " Zymotic Class of Diseases," there was only one death. 1865 

 had 2, and the nine years' average is more than eight times as many. It is 

 certain, therefore, that the atmosphere this month contained no poisonous 

 elements, but as the meteorological analysis states was excessively pure. 



The second, Consitutional Class of Diseases, had a trifle more than the 

 average death rate, and more than twice the number that 1865 had. Three 

 of the 7 were cancerous affections, and the three others consumption, two of 

 them born in Tasmania — one of them, however, did not belong to the Hobarton 

 registration district, but was brought to hospital from a country district oa 

 the other side of the Derwent. 



The third, or Local Class of Diseases, greatly exceeded the avei'age in its 

 number of deaths. 1865 had little more than half the number, though 1864 

 had exactly the same. The 1st order of this class, Diseases of the Brain and 

 Nervous System, had nine deaths, being three more than in June last year. The 

 second oxdiex, Diseases of the Heart and Organs of Circulation, had three deaths, 

 being one less than in 1865. The third order, Diseases of the Lungs and 

 Organs of Respiration, had 15 deaths. 1865 had only 4. In 1864 and 1863, how- 

 ever, when cataiTh prevailed so much, the deaths were respectively 14 and 16. 

 On the other hand when influenza prevailed in July, 1860, there were 51 

 deaths. A reference to my remarks on those occasions, will show the differ- 

 ence between these two affections,in each of which the air passages seem to be 

 so similarly deranged. In the fourth order, Diseases of the Stomach and Organs 

 of Digestion, there were 3 deaths, 1865 having only had one. The 5th order, 

 Diseases of the Urinary Organs had one death, whde 1805 had 4. The sixth 

 order, Diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c,, had 2 deaths, while 1865 had not any 



