316 Rain and Drought of the last Eight Seasons in India. [April, 



years. Probably these periods would be more correctly stated at 4§ 

 and 9^ years respectively, which would give recurrences at the end 

 of nine and nineteen years. Some particular times of maxima and 

 minima are stated ; they are — 



Max 1797 1815. 



Min 1802-1811 1822. 



These numbers (except the last) nearly coincide with our own, which 

 are for the same period — 



Max. 1796 1806 1815 1822. 



Min 1802 1811 



It must be recollected that these periods of the North American 

 lakes are only stated from the memory of the inhabitants ; and besides 

 it is almost too much to expect that the changes in distant parts of the 

 world should be exactly contemporaneous. 



Art. V. — Statistical Record of the duration of diseases in 13,019 

 fatal cases in Hindoos. — Extraordinary mortality among Lying-in 

 Women — Compiled by Dr. Duncan Stewart, Superintendent Ge- 

 neral of Vaccination. 



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Note. The Table is compiled from the Bills of Hindoo Mortality 

 kept by the Police authorities at the different ghauts where Hindoo 

 obsequies are performed. The information is derived from the relatives 

 accompanying the body to the ghaut, and is therefore not liable to sus- 

 picion, although there may be some little laxity on particular points. 

 The registers thus obtained assign the name, age, sex, caste, occupation, 

 and residence of every individual — the illness whereof lie died, and the 

 number of days he was ill — also the names of his father, of his nearest 

 heir, his priest, and the doctor who attended him. Some of the former 

 items I have elsewhere tabulated for the information of the Municipal 

 Committee, in illustration of the localities in Calcutta most favorable 



