died in the group of houses where the deaths from typhoiil fever occurred, 

 referre<l to last month. Altogetlier the deaths in this group of houses during 

 the three months (t.'stimating the i)opulatiun at loO persons) has been about 

 six times more than the average for the whole city. In the Constitutional 

 cla^ss of dise;v«es tliere were 8 deaths. Cancer 3 ; Tabes Mesenterica 1 ; 

 Consumption 4. Of the latter, two boys, aged 11 and 13 respectively, were 

 natives of Tasmania. In the Local class of diseases — The 1st order, the 

 Brain avd Nervous Si/atem, had 7 deaths ; 6 of them from Apoplexy, 1 from 

 Paralmis. In the 2nd order, the Heart and Organs of Circulation, there 

 was only one death. In the 3rd order, the Lungs and Organs of Respiration, 

 there were 3 deaths. In the 4th order. Stomach and Organs of Digestion, 

 there were 3 deaths. From old age there were 6 deaths, which \vith a chUd 

 5 weeks old from malformation, and one from suffocation (overlaid), and 

 another /o««</ drowned, makes up the total deaths for April. There were 

 3 Inquests. In the Hospital there were only 4 deaths ; two of thf^m from 

 other Registration-Districts. At the Cascades Invalid Asylum two men died, 

 agetl 69 and 77. and two women, aged 62 and 69. At the Brickfields Male 

 Invalid Asylum 5 died, aged 49, oO, 57, 67, 75. One of these, however, had 

 been removed from the public Hospital only five days before, and should 

 therefore have beeu a Hospital death. In March, too, one of the deaths at 

 the Brickfields was a man nearly moribund sent there instead of to the 

 Hospital He died a few days after admission. This practice was condemned 

 long ago, and it was under stood that the dying should not be sent to an. 

 establishment which has not proper hospital requisites. > 



