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total is 276, and during September, October, and November 

 288. The hottest three months in our year are December, 

 January, and February, the coldest three June, July, and 

 August, while the other quarters are intermediate in their 

 temperature. Therefore the smallest number of deaths occur 

 during the hottest three months, our summer ; the next 

 smallest during the coldest three, our winter ; then during the 

 three spring months ; and the largest number during the 

 three autumn months. So it seems that our southern summer, 

 with its heat, is by no means inimical to the phthisical patient, 

 but manifestly beneficial ; that the settled cold of our winter 

 is not to any great degree unfriendly ; that the seasons most 

 to be dreaded are the milder ones, the transition periods ; and 

 that the quarter of falling temperature, the autumn, is more 

 disastrous than the spring, with its gradually increasing heat. 

 Now this, I imagine, though it must accord with the experience 

 of medical men — for our statistics are but the embodiment of 

 such experience — is almost the reverse of what we should have 

 been inclined to prophesy. We should have anticipated that 



Deaths from Phthisis in 



South Australia 



in the 12 Months 







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1871 . . 

























10 



1872 . . 



13 



8 



14 



17 



13 



9 



9 



15 



14 



11 



13 



10 



1873 . . 



13 



14 



15 



7 



16 



8 



13 



18 



13 



19 



13 



4 



1874 . . 



10 



6 



20 



28 



13 



13 



8 



14 



12 



17 



19 



20 



1875 . . 



16 



16 



19 



25 



18 



18 



14 



20 



16 



15 



15 



16 



1876 . . 



15 



12 



13 



16 



23 



20 



29 



19 



21 



28 



13 



17 



1877 .. .. 

 Total 



17 



15 



21 



20 



19 



17 



16 



16 



17 



15 



17 



•• 



84 



71 



102 



113 



102 



85 



89 



102 



93 



105 



90 



77 



Deaths from All Diseases in South Australia in the 12 Months. 



January . , 

 February . , 

 March 

 April 



May .. . 

 June 



July .. . 

 August 

 September 

 October . , 

 November 

 December., 



1871. 1872. 1873. 1974. 1875. 1876. 1877 



222 



284 

 211 

 323 

 329 

 254 

 243 

 215 

 225 

 184 

 165 

 216 

 247 



269 

 217 

 276 

 233 

 225 

 195 

 212 

 192 

 208 

 169 

 184 

 251 



237 

 210 

 298 

 290 

 280 

 235 

 177 

 237 

 251 

 315 

 385 

 546 



461 

 398 

 495 

 462 

 402 

 311 

 290 

 283 

 255 

 246 

 274 

 259 



264 

 317 

 325 

 272 

 286 

 276 

 322 

 362 

 256 

 271 

 246 

 353 



339 

 324 

 367 

 364 

 282 

 228 

 199 

 197 

 196 

 211 

 235 



Total. 



1,854 

 1,677 

 2,084 

 1,950 

 1,729 

 1,488 

 1,415 

 1,496 

 1,350 

 1,377 

 1,540 

 1,878 



