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the same. It foil on 11 days, being — 3'09 below the average. On only one day, 

 tlie 2'.>th, (lid sulticient (*2r>) fall to cleanse the surface channels. Snoia 

 covered Mount Wclliugtou and all the low hills about the city on the morn- 

 ing of the ."{Oth. 



i>j)o)ita7}<ous ci'aporation was 1*20 inches. 



Cloud Mean, G"G8, was + 1"18 above the average. At .35 out of the 93 

 records the sky was entirely over-clouded. 



Ozone Mran, 5"8(>, was— 1*44 below the average. No previous May record 

 had so small an amount. 



Elcctricitij was almost confined to negative of a low tension, ranging from 

 1 to 5. There was only one positive with tension of 4. There were 7 nils. No 

 thunder heard or lightning seen during the month. 



Tlie (Icdtlifi during the month were 33 being— 7 (M4 less than the average of 

 the i)revious 14 years, and— G less than INIay 1870 had. Again the female deaths, 

 17 out of 33, jn-eponderated. Under one year old there were 3 deaths ; from 

 1 to 5, also 3 ; from 5 to 10, none ; from 10 to 15, one ; from 15 to 20, none. 

 In May 1870 there were 12 deaths under 20 years old. From 20 to GO the 

 deaths were 1 ; and at GO and all ages above the large proportion of IG, the 

 oldest being 84 years old. May 1870 had 17, the oldest being 90. In the 

 zymotic c/a.ss of diseases there were only 2 deaths from erysipelas ; one an 

 old man from a country district, the other a child only 2 years old. From 

 consumption there were 2 deaths, one a woman aged 50, a native of Switzer- 

 land, the other a girl of 14, daughter of a coal miner from the coal mines, Tax- 

 man's Peninsula, born in Tasmania. Her mother and a sister both died from 

 the same disease in Hospital some time before, so that probably the here- 

 ditary tendency in the family is strong. In the public Hosintal there were Q 

 deaths, inclusive of the girl from consumption. At the Cascades there were 

 5 deaths, three females aged 60, 74, 75, and two males aged 71 and 81. At 

 the Brickfields there was only one death, a man aged 72. There was only oue 

 Inquest^ a man aged 75 who died from natural causes. 



