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respectively GQ and 73 deaths each. The smallest number in any month 

 was 42 in 1869. Under one year old there were 16 deaths, several only a few 

 hours or days old ; from 1 to 2 there were 3 ; from 2 to 3 the deaths were 

 two ; from 3 to 4 one ; from 4 to 5 none ; from 5 to 10 one ; from 10 to 15 

 none ; from 15 to 20 two ; from 20 to GO there were 13 ; at GO and all ages 

 above, the oldest being 92, there were 20. In the Zymotic class of diseases 

 there were 14 deaths ; of these 11 were from bowel complaints^ nearly all 

 young infants. One, a girl of 18, registered Coinmon Continued Fever, but 

 with suspicion that sunstroke was the exciting cause. A young wife, aged 

 22, died from Typlioid Fever, and her only child, aged 11 months, died the 

 day after, registered Diarrhoea, most probably typhoid also. In the pre- 

 vious month a woman, aged 21, died close to the above, registered Enteritis, 

 but very likelj' the result of the typhoid poison. Intelligent neighbours report 

 six cases with three deaths from this c;iuse in a group of houses in Warwick- 

 street, between Argyle and Campbell-streets. The drainage there is very 

 bad, and at the back and on one side of these houses the soil in two paddocks 

 is a swamj) from sewage. From time to time deaths occur from this 

 preventible disease in Hobarton, warning us to put our sewage in order, ere 

 this disease becomes the terrible scourge that it is in the home country. If 

 not thoroughly disinfected, the dijecta from typhoid patients become carriers 

 of the disease to others in various ways of the most repulsive nature. The 

 14th death in the zymotic class was from Thrush in an infant. In the 2nd, or 

 Constitutional class of disease, there were 12 deaths, 6 of them from 

 Consumption. Two of these were natives of Tasmania, 2 Irish, one being a 

 visitor from Victoria, 1 English, 1 a sailor, a native of the South Sea Island 

 of Tanna. Diseases in the 3rd class. Local Diseases, need not all be com- 

 mented on, but those of the Brain and Nervous System caused 10 deaths ; 

 the Heartand Organs of Circulation 3 ; the Lungs and Organs of Respiration 

 3 ; Organs of Digestion only 1 ; Urinary Organs 3. Of the remaining classes 

 it will suffice to state that Old Age caused 7 deaths ; Atrophy and Debility 3 ; 

 Premature Births, &c., 2 ; Accident only 1. No Inquests were held this 

 month. In the Hospital there were 8 deaths, five of them belonging to 

 other " Registration Districts." At the Brickfields Male Asylum for 

 Invalids there were 3 deaths, faged respectively 64, 66, 71. At the Cascades 

 Invalid Asylum two men, aged 61 and 65, and one woman, aged 68, died. 



