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one death ; from 1 to 5 there were 3 ; from 5 to 10, one; from 1 to 15 none ; from 

 15 to 20, one. So small a proportion of the total deaths under 20 years old is 

 very remarkable, August 1870 had ten more. From 20 to 60 the deaths were 

 17, being one less than in August 1870. At 60 and all ages above the deaths 

 were 11, being — 4 less than in 1870. The three oldest this month were above 

 80 years old, the oldest being 86. In the Zymotic Class only one death was 

 recorded, a man aged 60 from gastric fever. From consumiotion there were 

 4 deaths, 2 of them natives of Tasmania, born in Hobart Town, women, aged 

 21 and 25 respectively. One a man aged 44, a shoemaker, born in Dublin ; the 

 other a man, aged 52, a truss-maker, born in Middlesex. In the public 

 Hospital there were 11 deaths, aU belonging to the Hobart Town registration 

 district, except one from Green Ponds. There was only one Inquest on a 

 man who died in hospital to which he was removed from the gaol. At the 

 Brickfields Invalid Asj/lum there were 3 deaths, aged respectively 64, 68, 83. 

 At the Cascades establishment two men died aged 58 and 73, the average age in 

 the latter being eleven and a half years less than in the former. _ At the 

 Queen's Asylum for orphan and destitute children, a girl aged 15 died from 

 abscess of the liver. 



