REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



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Losses. — Tho Eastern, Middle, Lake, and Pacific States report scarcely 

 any losses beyond those from ordinary casualties. The exceptions to 

 this are in Maryland, where a loss of 15 per cent, in Montgomery and 

 10 in Charles aud Worcester is attributed to cholera. In tho interior 

 belt, embr'dcing Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and in the 

 States bordering the Gulf, the losses are very heavy, involving a large 

 portion of the entire area. For the most part losses are not specified in 

 returns which report no disease or special cause, and therefore the per- 

 centage chietly represents extraordinary losses ; that is, losses from dis- 

 ease, starvation, and ill treatment. Taking the numbers and average 

 values returned ibr the 1st of January, 1877, as the basis of calculation, 

 the percentage, numbers, and values of the losses, during tho year end- 

 ing April 1, in the several States within the area named, as indicated 

 by unusually full returns, are as follows : 



