noticed in the general result of an annual bill of mortality, ex- 
cept those which are incident to mortality in all countries, from 
internal or constitutional causes, or which may be fairly ascribed 
to or are influenced by climate; all others being» merely adven- 
titious ought to be excluded. If it should be thought necessary 
to record the precise number of persons who finish their mortal 
career in any place, a column might be specially appropriated to 
these extraneous causes of death, and such an improvement I 
suggested several years since for the bills of mortality in Pasir 
delphia, but without effect.* 
~The items which J think ought to be omitted in the regular 
columns of all bills of mortality, are burns, childbed, contusions, 
eke wrain drunkenness, fractures of all parts of the 
temperance, megan injury of the head, of 
the aie of the. “sit of the hip; duels, landanum, mania a 
potu, (madness from rum,) found dead, intisdexed, syphilis, still- 
born, , small-pox, varioloid, suicide, Sebel These 
2¢ Philadelphia bills ae ere Asia« 
tis’ cholera, , (which was included in the | hilade 
year 1832,) any other epidemic, deaths from the eran 
prisons, which are natae *) in the baer. arene ‘died 
abroad.” otal ae Fee 
~The inutility of specifying Ba fractures and ingbaiaaeiee 
separate lines, and of giving one line to each’ special aan 
causing death, and separate lines to drunkenness, inten 
and mania a potu, must-be obvious upon a moment’s sefies fag! 
The two first ought to: be included in the line or column for 
“casualties,” and the three last placed in one line after the head 
age » «Tandanum,” “ morphine to excess,” and’ “ poison~ 
2’ should be in one line after the last head. Malignant chol- 
era ‘e comes we know not how, it goes we: know not where ;”F 
and therefore’ cannot be claimed exclusively as an indigene by 
* Since writing the foregoing, I find by reference i a British Annual Régiater ; 
thatin the Edinburgh bills, there is a colum he head “ casualties,” an 
comprises all those deaths which may be pope ranged under if. 
+t We know that it first appeared in the army of the Marquis of Hastings, in 
the year 1817, when encamped during a military expedition in the sandy soil, and 
sun of Renae: and that it visited Europe and North America, 
Unaffected:by the cold of Russia, the moisture of England, the dry climate of 
France, or the:variable climates of Canada and the Uvited States. Tn 1836, it 
in Italy, ot y 
