14 deaths, being twice as irany as in the i)revious month of December. In 

 diseases of the heart, &c., only one death. In diseases of the lungs, &c., only one, 

 "which is remarkable with such wide daily ranges of temperature, and verifying 

 the remark I have often had occasion to make, that mere alterations of tempera- 

 ture do not cause diseases of the organs of respiration to the extent that they 

 do in the British Isles. In the other classes there was nothing unusual. In 

 the Hospital there were 13 deaths, 5 of them not belonging to the Hobart 

 Town registi-ation district. There was only one Inquest, a suicide from 

 l^oisoning with strychnine. At the Cascades Invalid Asylum there was only 

 one death of a man aged 94, but a child of one of the officers of the House of 

 Correction there died at the age of 4 months, as its fellow-twin did on the 

 24th of December previous, but which was not entered into my report for that 

 month, as the death was not registered until the 11th January, notwithstanding 

 the penalty the Act provides for such neglect. At the Brickfields Male Invalid 

 Asylum there were two deaths, one aged 75 the other 77. 



