seen on the nights of the 23r(l and 24th. There was thunder with rain on 

 the 29th. 



The deaths during the month were 51, being— 3 4-14ths less than the 

 average of the preceding 14 years, though +4 more than March 1870 and 

 +9 more than 1869 had. In 1861 the deaths were the same in number, but 

 in every other year of the fourteen more ; the range being from 42 in 1869 to 

 73 in 1864. Thirty (30) were males, 21 females. Under one year old there 

 were 11 deaths ; from 1 to 5 the deaths were 4 ; none between 5 and 10 ; one 

 (1) from 10 to 15 ; one (1) from 15 to 20 ; from 20 to 60 there were 13 ; and 

 from 60 to all ages above 21, the oldest being 92, an old Waterloo soldier who 

 died at the Brickfields Invalid Asylum. The deaths in the General Hos- 

 pital were 13, seven (7) of which were from other Registration Districts, and 

 one a foreign sailor. At the Cascades Invalid Asylum there were 5 deaths, 

 at the Brickfields 2. There were 3 inquests. One died one hour after ad- 

 mission into hospital from a tumour of the liver ; another died there from 

 compound fracture of both bones of the leg, which occurred at Brighton. The 

 leg was amputated ; the third died before he reached the hospital from 

 inflammation of the boioels, having been brought down the long and torturing 

 journey from the Lakes. It is high time that cottage hospitals should be 

 established by the settlers in their respective districts to avert such suffer- 

 ings as this poor man must have endured. Zymotic diseases caused 13 deaths 

 mostly from bowel complaints, but no ejmlemic disease prevailed. Consump- 

 tion caused 4 deaths, none of the deceased having been natives of Tasmania. 



