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THE HEALTH OF HOBART. 



the city by care and improvement of all sanitary provisions, 

 should not mar their good work by giving any encouragement 

 to unwarranted alarmist statements regarding the general good 

 fame and health of the city we live in, and which, at the 

 present time, is the most healthy of any city known to me. 



Death Rate per 100,000 persons under each of the great 

 divisions of diseases in four Metropolitan Cities during 1894. 



Deaths under 1 Year per 1000 Births, 1894. 



MELBOURNE. SYDNEY. ADELAIDE. 



122 133 119 



Percbntaqe of Deaths from "Old Age" to All Deaths, 1894. 



MELBOURNE. SYDNEY. ADELAIDE. HOBART. 



3-06 319 7-70 19-32 19-09* 



Actual Number. 

 210 190 49 123 111* 



Per 100,000 mean Population. 

 47-5 45-0 122-6 346 306* 



* Year 1895. 



Deaths of Persons 65 Years and over. 



MELBOURNE. 



1894. 

 • 1359 



19-78 



808 



237 



Actual Number. 

 SYDNEY. ADELAIDE. 



1894. 189ft. 



731 160 



Per cent, to Total Deaths. 

 11-27 20-56 37-21 



Per 100,000 mean Population. 

 17^ 400 666 



HOBART. 

 189ft. 1895. 



189 



82-48 



521 



