of Australia. From UO to CO tlie ileaths were 11); onJ from CO to 90, there 

 were 17. In July, 1SC9, the deaths umler "20, were 14, and over 20, Xi. Up to 

 the i;ith day of the month, there were only 9 deaths, on that day and the 19th 

 the maximum of 'A each occurred. Uefore, and on the 20th, there were 7 days 

 on which no deaths took jtlace. After the 20th, not a day without one or 

 two deaths, three having oue and the rest two. (.'onsumption caused 5 deaths, 

 one a sailor, a native of the Sandwich Islands, the other four all Tasnianian 

 born. Never before have there been so many deaths of Tasmanians from this 

 disease in any single month. A death in hospital took jdace from tetanus in 

 a man brought up from the Huon, where he had suffered a compound 

 fracture of the bones of the leg ; he survived upwards of a week in hospital ; 

 the limb was not amputated. Only one inquest was held during the month. 

 In the Z^innotir chxss of diseases there was not a single death, which, hitherto, 

 is unprecedented. 



