NIGHT AIR. MORTITARY ftTATISttCi^. 



W 



Cattses. 



Fevers : 



Ordinary, 



Yellow, 



Scarlot Eruptive, &c., . .. 



Diseases of Lungs and Heart,.. 



" " Bowels and Liver, 



Dropsies, 



Diseases of Brain and Nerves: 



Apoplexy and Pais}"-, 



Convulsions and Spasms, 



Sudden and Violent, 



Stillborn, 



Childbirth, 



Other causes 



Total, 



Average Quarterly 

 Number. 



33 

 1 

 14 

 34 

 14 

 7 



6 



24 



10 



2 



2 



45 



192 



38 



5 



6 



38 



22 



5 



4 



14 



10 



1 



3 



47 



192 



C.5 



63 

 35 

 12 

 55 

 26 

 6 



3 



21 

 7 

 2 

 3 



43 



274 



c g 



58 

 14 



9 

 26 

 19 



7 



G 

 27 

 9 

 1 

 5 

 46 



230 



Percentage Proportion. 



& 



16.G 



.4 



7.3 



17.8 

 7.3 

 3.6 



3.1 

 12.6 

 5.0 

 1.2 

 1.0 

 34.1 



100.0 



d" 



19.7 



2.4 



2 9 



19.8 



11.4 



2.6 



2.1 

 7.4 

 5.0 

 .7 

 1.3 

 24.7 



100.0 



& 



23.0 



12.7 



4.4 



20.1 



9.4 



2.1 



1.1 

 7.5 

 2.7 

 .6 

 1.2 

 15.3 



25.4 

 6.1 

 3.7 



11.5 

 8.5 

 3.1 



3.6 

 13.0 



4.1 

 .6 



2.4 

 20.0 



100.0 



100.0 



Gov. Rawson says, "^Thc inferences to be drawn from this 

 table are that the latter half of the year is mucli more fatal to 

 the popitlation, to the extent of nearly one-third, and that this 

 is owing chiefly to the prevalence of fevers, including yellow 

 fever, which contributed one-third to the excess." 



" These islands are, without exception, remarkably healthy. 

 They are free from, and are seldom visited by epidemic diseases. 

 Intermittent fevers, which prevail to so great an extent on the 

 neighboring continent, are comparatively infrequent here, and 

 usually assume a mild form. During the last thirty-five years, 

 Nassau has been visited by the cholera but once, viz.: in 1852; 

 by small-pox in 1845 and 1860, when it was introduced in both 



