Deaths were 41 in number being— 2 7-14ths less than the October rate. 

 The October range is from niininiuni 29 in 18G1, to maximum 59 in 18(39. 

 Under one year oM there were <leaths, one being only '.i tlays, the second 

 two weeks, the thinl 'S weeks old. October, 1871, had the same number. 

 From 1 to 5 there were 2 deaths, last year had twice as many. From 5 to 

 10 there were no deaths. October, ISJU, had one. From 10 to 20 there was 

 one ilcath. while last year had 2. From 20 to GO there were 17 deaths, 

 while 1870 had only G. At 00 and all ages above there were 15 deaths, the 

 oldest being a woman of 82, last year had 10 the oldest a woman of 84. In 

 the zi/motic class of diseases there was not a single death. In the Cachectic 

 or Constitutional Class there were 7 deaths, three from cancerous affections 

 of various organs, three from Consumption, two of them natives of Tas- 

 mania, the third a German man, one from Z)ro;?.5^. In diseases of the Brain 

 and Ncri'ous System there were 10 deaths ; from tliseases of Heart and organs 

 of Circulation there was only one death. From diseases of the Lungs and 

 organs of Respiration their were 9 deaths. From old age, &c., 5. The remain- 

 der do not require particularizing. At the Hospital there were only 5 deaths, 

 two of them not belonging to the Hobart Town Registration District. At 

 the Brickfields Male Invalid Asylum there was only one death at 55 years old. 

 At the Cascades there were three men aged, one 69, two 70, and one woman 

 aged 47. There were two Inquests, one returned "manslaughter," the other 

 "found drowned," the poor Orphan Asylum apprentice Claravance Barker^ 



