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The greater mortality of three winter months is here very appa- 

 rent. It will be seen also that the excessive heats ol' August and 

 September are more unfavorable than the milder temperature of 

 spring and autumn. The difference of the two years corresponds 

 also with the difference of the mean temperature of those years, that 

 of 1818 being during the winter months 3.4° and of 1819, 4.3'^. 



It is found also that in the northern parts of France the mortality 

 during winter is considerably greater than in the southern. In 1818 

 the deaths were to the births in the north as 1 to 7.96, and in the 

 south, as 1 to 10.72. In J 819 (a colder season,) the proportion in 

 the north was as 1 to 9.12, and in the south 1 to 1 1.70. 



These facts, strengthened by numerous others, show the impor- 

 tance of guarding new born children assiduously against the effects 

 of cold, and of the imprudence or inhumanity of conveying them to 

 church at this early age, during the rigorous season, for the purpose 

 of baptism. — Ann. d^ hygiene publique, Jan. 1830. 



2. Phthisis pulmonalis in Paris. — The total number of deaths in 

 Paris during the year of 1828, was twenty four thousand two hun- 

 dred and ninety nine, of which eleven thousand four hundred and 

 thirty were males, and twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty nine 

 females. 



The deaths by pulmonary consumption were one thousand one 

 hundred and thirty three men, and one thousand five hundred and 

 twenty six women, in addition to which six hundred and eighty eight 

 men, and eight hundred and fifty one women died of chronic pul- 

 monary catarrh, (which is almost identical with prolonged phthisis) 

 making a total of four thousand one hundred and ninety six, or more 

 than one sixth of the whole number of deaths. — Idem. 



3. Establishment of a model farm in Greece. — The government 

 has just founded an establishment from which important results may 

 be expected, in favor of a country afflicted by the ravages of war, 

 and still more perhaps by the idle and military habits which have 

 resulted from them. Gregory Palaiologue, one of the young 

 Greeks who has pursued a course of agricultural studies at the insti- 

 tution of Roville, in France, has returned to his country, in order to 

 devote his knowledge, perfected by the management of a large agri- 

 cultural establishment which had been confided to him in Corsica, 

 to the benefit of his country. He embarked with a considerable 



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