total was'only -SSof aninch, being— 1-28 inches below the average. The 

 three Junes, 1852-3-4, were the only ones in the i^revious 30 years with less 

 rain-fall than the present month. But eveiy month now for the last seveu 

 months has had less than the average rain-fall ; altogether for the first half 

 of this year the deficit of rain amounts to 4 14 inches. Snoio remained on 

 Mount Wellington on the 1st of the month, and received a sHght addition 

 on the 11th, and a copious addition on the 28th. 



Spontaneous Uvajjoration amounted to 1*11 inches. 



Cloud mean, 610, Avas + •59 above the average. 



Ozone mean, 6 "13, was — '37 below the average. Saturation (10) was 

 recorded twice. 



Electricity was feeble, only 3 positive with tension from 3'5 to 5. Negative 

 50 tension 1 to 5. " Nils " 7. 



The Deaths were 51, being -f 5 2-14ths above the average of the previous 

 14 years. Only four out of the fourteen had a greater number of deaths, the 

 highest being 1861 with 59. 36 were males, only 15 females. Under one 

 year there were 4 deaths ; from 1 to 5 there was only one death ; from 5 to 10 

 no deaths ; from 10 to 15 one death ; from 15 to 20 there were 4. Ten 

 deaths only under 20 years old out of 51 at all ages, is a very small proportion 

 indeed. From 20 to 60 there were 20 deaths ; and at 60 and all ages above, 

 the oldest being 94, there were 21 deaths. The Zymotic class of diseases had 

 only 3 deaths, two from Diarrhcea, one ^^ English Cholera." There were 4 

 deaths from Pneumonia, being an unusually large number. Consumption 

 caused 6 deaths, four of them Tasmanians by birth, one Englishman, and 

 the 6th a native of New South Wales on a visit for change of climate. The 

 deaths in Hospital, including inquest cases, were unusually large, 17. At 

 the Brickfields Male Invalid Asylum, there were 2 deaths, aged 68 and 94; 

 at the Cascades there were 4 deaths, three males, one female, respectively 

 aged 58, 68, 70, 73. The Inquests were 5, four of them in connection with 

 the gaol for males, one having died there, and three in Hospital shortly 

 after being removed from the gaol. 



