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infantile mortality (including still births, and deaths within one 

 fortnight after births) is about one in eighteen. 



Hoping that these particulars will answer your purpose, 



I remain, yours &c, 



Arthur Renwick. 

 Elizabeth-street, Hyde Park. 



1863 



Acco 

 Total... 



UCHEMENT CASES. 



Number. 



104 



Deaths, 

 1 



1864 



107 







1865 



129 







1866.. 



129 







1867.. 



121 









590 



1 



N.B. — Of the mothers, two-thirds, were unmarried women ; and 

 three-fourths of the women loere primiparas. 



Comparing this result with that of the largest lying-in hospital - 

 in the United Kingdom — the Rotunda of Dublin — we find that 

 the balance is considerably in favour of the lying in wards of the 

 Benevolent Asylum in Sydney. 



Against one death in 600 in the latter, we find that the average 

 mortality in the former is 1.5 ; yet this institution is described by 

 Messrs. "Bristowe and Holmes as " That admirable institution, 

 admirable alike in its construction and in its arrangements." 



This satifactory result of the management at the Benevolent 

 Asylum does not, however, afford any argument against the re- 

 moval of tli6 wards to a healthy country site, as proposed ; in fact, 

 to the adoption of that character of accommodation which is con- 

 sidered in England to be best calculated to ensure the lowest 

 mortality. 



Art. IV.- — On the Causes and Phenomena of Earthquakes, espec- 

 ially in relation to shocks felt in New South Wales, and in other 

 provinces of Australasia, oy the Rev. W. B. Clarke, M. A , 

 F.G.S., V.P. 



(Read 2nd September, 1868.) 

 The subject of earthquakes is one of intense interest, not merely 

 to the moralist, but to the investigator of nature. As such, it 

 very early in life invited my attention, and to it one of the first 

 essays I ventured on in connection with geology was dedicated. 

 That was five-and-forty years ago. Ten years later I commenced 

 a series of papers, which were published in " Loudon's Magazine 



