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this cavise. Three children, two of them being under a month old, died from 

 convulsions. Two men, 4i) and 43 years old, died from brain disease. In the 

 2iid order of this class,, 'DisyiKCs of the Heart and onjans of circulation, two 

 persons, 57 and 5S years old, died, being the same in number as in December, 

 1805. In the .'ird order, Diseases of the Lunr/s and organs of resmration, the 

 deaths wore 5,f()ur being young children from acute iuflammtions,the fifth being 

 of a clironic character, terminating suddenly, in a man of dd. Last year had only 

 one death, and that from chronic disease, in this order, though the weather 

 was both colder and mora varial)le, and therefore usually supposed to be 

 more conducive to inflammatory affections of the organs of respiration. In the 

 4th order, Diseas^cs of the Stomach and Organs of Digestion, a death from 

 inflammation of the liver and bowels occurred in a woman aged 31. In 18G5 

 there were two deaths in this oi'der, but both from chronic diseases. In the 

 5th order. Diseases of the Urinary Organs, there were two deaths, aged 

 respectively 23 and 64, both of a chronic character. Last year had no deaths in 

 this, or any of the subsequent orders of this class. In the 4th or Developmental 

 class of diseases, the deaths, 10, were more than double the average, and largely 

 above any year of the previous nine, 1865 had only 3 deaths in this class. 

 Three were children under four months old, the other six were from old age, 

 being 60, 67, 71, 73, 73, 79, and 81 years old respectively. High atmospheric 

 pressure, or rapid and extensive alterations of pressure, always extinguish the 

 lives of many old and otherwise feeble persons. In the 5th, or Violent and 

 accidental class of diseases and deaths, the number of deaths, 5, was con- 

 siderably higher than the average. December, 1865, had only 2. One of these 

 deaths was caused by burns, another by poison, (the accidental drinking of 

 Burnett's disinfecting fluid, — chloride of zinc,) a third by a fall from a pony, 

 (all children). The fourth was drowned ia the river, from a boat run down by 

 a steamer. The fifth was a newly born child found concealed in a cess-pool, 

 supposed to have been deposited there in October last. 



Inquests were 7, one of which died in Hospital, another at the Peniten- 

 tiary. Last year there were only 4. In Hospital there died 12, including the 

 inquest case. Four of them were from country districts. In L'ecember 1865 

 the deaths in Hospital were only half as numerous. At the Male Invalid 

 Asylum at the Brickfields 2 died, 71 and 81 years old respectively. 1865 had 

 the same in number. A woman aged 55 died in the Cascade Factory. One 

 also died there in 1865. Of the 50 deaths, 26 were males, 24 females. It is 

 seldom the sexes are so equally balanced as this, there being usually a great 

 preponderance of males. Five died in the Glenorchy, 2 in the Queenborough 

 divisions of the registration district, the rest in the city. 



In the first week there died 12, in the second 12, in the third 11, in the 

 fourth 13, in the last three days 2. The weekly distribution of the deaths is 

 very equal, and it was likewise so in December 1865. 



The Births registered were 51, being 10 less thaa in 1865. 



