low hills about the city had a good coating, buh 'of short continuance. Na 

 ice was ever observed iu or near the city, in this usually the coldest mouth 

 in the year. 



Spontaneous n'aporation, owing to the warm and windy character of the 

 month, exceeded iirecipitation, being 401 inches. 



Cloud mean, O'.'Vi, was + V2 above the average. 



0:one mean, 7-10, was + '31 above the average. Saturation (10) was 

 recorded H times, 



Elcctricitti was registered 49 times out of the 02 observations ; 4 only 

 were positive with tension from 4 to 5, The negatives, 45, had tension from 



1 to 5. There were 13 " nils." No thunder, or li'jhtnuKj, or auroral dispUiys. 

 The deaths during the month were 42, being — 12 12-14 below the 



average of the previous 14 years' Julys. Under 1 year old the deaths were 

 4 (the registered births in the month being 05) ; from 1 to 5 the deaths were 



2 ; from 5 to 10 one ; from 10 to 15 nil ; from 15 to 20 1 ; from 20 to 00 there 

 •were 13. At and above 00 the deaths were 21, the oldest being 00 ; 15 out 

 of the 21 were above 70. Males were 20 in number ; females only 16. In the 

 Zymotic class of diseases there was only 1 death, a case of crowp in a child 

 aged 5 years. In diseases of the brain and nervous si/stem there was the very 

 large number of 14 deaths, many of them sudden from apoplexy, &c., a con- 

 sequence of the rapid and extensive variations of atmospheric pressure. From 

 diseases of the organs of respiration there were 5 deaths. Consumption caused 

 only 1 death, a young woman born in Hobart Town. At the Hospital there 

 were 10 deaths, inclusive of 1 inquest case, the only one in the month. Six 

 of them were from other registration districts. One was one of the two last 

 females of the aboriginal natives of the island, who died from paralysis ; re- 

 corded as 50 years old only (?) At the Brickfields Invalid Asylum there 

 were 6 deaths, aged respectively 67, 71, 74, 77, 83, 90. At the Cascades there 

 only 2, aged 49 and 82. 



