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guez, who planted the big vine at Montecito, in Santa Barbara 

 County, had three hundred. Such cases may be found in every 

 country, but in no such large proportion elsewhere. The 

 records of the Mission and parish church of Santa Barbara, 

 from 1782 till 1847, a period of 65 years, show that, in that 

 period, the births were 1,781, the deaths 441, and the mar- 

 riages 298. These figures indicate six births on an average 

 to one marriage, a ratio not to be equaled elsewhere. 



Our later statistics are defective. The majority of the pop- 

 ulation are not natives of the country, and many invalids have 

 come from the Atlantic side, so that the State may be regarded 

 as a sanitarium, and on that account it has more deaths than 

 properly belong to it. 



According to the Federal census report, the number of 

 deaths in the year ending June 1st, 1870, was 9,025 or 16 per 

 thousand ; a number which is moderate in itself, yet is above 

 the average for the whole Union, which has only 12. The 

 only States above California are Louisiana, 20, Massachusetts, 

 17, and Missouri, 16. The average mortality among civilized 

 nations ranges from 20 to 40 per thousand, and we may safely 

 assume that the report that eighteen States have less than 12 

 deaths to the thousand annually, is grossly erroneous. The 

 Health Report of New York City gives the following figures 

 of the deaths per thousand in certain prominent cities of 

 Europe and the United States. 



Naples 39 



Berlin 38 



Milan 38 



Florence 37 



Vienna 35 



Liverpool 35 



Turin 33 



Glasgow 32 



Manchester 31 



Rome 30 



Genoa 29 



Edinburgh 26 



Dublin 26 



London 24 



Vicksburg 41 



Troy 38 



Mobile 34 



Charleston 31 



Savannah 30 



New Orleans 29 



New York 28 



Baltimore 26 



Boston 23 



Chicago 23 



Philadelphia 22 



San Francisco 21 



Cleveland 19 



St. Louis. 16 



