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4th order, Diseases of the stomach and organs of digestion^ had 4 deaths, 

 1865 had only 2. In no other order of this class were there any deathn 

 this year, in last Octoher there was one in the 7th order. 



The 4th, or Developmental class of diseases, had 5 deaths, three of thera. 

 from old age, the fourth a child five weeks old, the fifth three months old ; 

 1865 had 19. The average of the nine years is 9. 



The 5th, or Violent and accidental class of diseases, had 2, which is con- 

 siderably below the average, and one less than 1865 had. One was 

 poisoning from arsenic, taken in an attack of drunkard's delirium ; the 

 other foim.d drowned. 



The Inquests were three, last year had 4. In Hospital 8 deaths took 

 place, 1865 had 15. Two of the cases were admissions from country dis- 

 tricts, one a Sandwich islander from a whaler in harbor, two others from 

 the Penitentiary. At the Male Invalid Asylum 7 deaths took place, aged 

 respectively 58, 63, 66, 74, 77, 86, 87. Surely some of these long-afflicted, 

 hopeless, and aged men ought to have been removed to the Hospital to 

 die on beds somewhat more comfortable than straw ones can possibly be ? 

 In October 1865 there were only 4 deaths in this Asylum. Of the 35 

 deaths, 24 were males, 11 females. One death occiured in the Glenorchy 

 division of the Eegistration-di strict ; the rest in the City. 



In the first week of the month the deaths were only 4 ; in the second, 

 11 ; in the tldrd, 10 ; in the fourth, 3 ; in the last three days, 7. The 

 most fatal period of the month was the nine days, 13th to 21st, when 

 nearly half of the whole month's mortality took place. For any two 

 consecutive days, the 13th and l-ith, and 29th and 30th, had the greatest 

 number of deaths, the first having 2 and 5 respectively, and the second 

 3 and 4. 



The Births registered were 7S, being 8 more than in October, 1865. 



