336 Account of the New Colony of Western Australia. [Oct. 

 TABLE OF DEATHS, MARRIAGES, AND BIBTHS, AT PERTH, 



YEAR 1830. 



YEAR 1832 



DEATHS. DEATHS. DEATHS. 



Disease. No.'.Disease. No. Disease. No. 



year 1833. 



DEATHS. 



Disease. 



No. 



Fever...... 14jFever 3j Dysentery 1 Fever 1 



Scurvy..... 13 i Scurvy 3! Apoplexy 1 Dysentery 2 



Dysentery 10 Dysentery 4jDrowned li Apoplexy 1 



Dropsy 3'Epilepsy 1, Hanged himself 1 Excessive drinking 1 



Apoplexy 1 Disease of heart. . 1 



Marasmus 4 Apoplexy 1 



Drowned 3 Marasmus 2 



Consumption 1 Convulsions 1 



Excessive drinking I Drowned 7 



Excessive drinking I 



Total 



50 



24 



Pneumonia . . . . ; 2 



Consumption 2 



Hooping cough.. . 1 



Thrush 1 



Croup 1 



Childbed 1 



Tabes mesenterica 1 

 14 



Total marriages at Perth, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive. 

 Total baptisms at do, from 1S30 to 1833 do. 



..32 

 .130 



TABLE of DEATHS, MARRIAGES, and BIRTHS, at FREEMANTLE, 



YEAR 1830. 



YEAR 1831. 



DEATHS. DEATHS. 



Disease. No. Disease. No, 



Dysentery 10 Scurvy 12 



Scurvy. 10 Dysentery. .... . 3 



Consumption 1 ; Consumption 



Dropsy 1 Killed by natives. 1 



Childbed 2 



Killed by natives. 1 



Total 



17 



YEAR 1832. 

 DEATHS. 



Disease. No. 



Apoplexy 2 



Dysentery..... 1 



Scurvy 1 



Consumption... 1 

 Cancer in womb 1 

 Killed in a duel 1 



Drowned 4 



Hanged himself I 

 12 



YEAR 1833. 

 DEATHS. 



Disease. No. 



Convulsions 2 



Speared by natives 2 



Total marriages at Freemantle, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive, 

 Total baptisms at do. from 1830 to 1833 do. . 



.21 



.24 



I am indebted to the Rev. J, B. Wittenoom, the Colonial Chaplain, for the 

 foregoing tables of deaths, marriages and births, which were copied from his Re- 

 gister. They will give some idea of the prevailing diseases and mortality for each 

 vear, with the gradual decrease of sickness as the colony advanced. These tables 

 however can only be looked upon as an approximation to the truth, as in the early 

 state of a new colony, it was difficult to obtain correct information in all cases. 

 They include settlers, soldiers, women and children. 



The Colonial hospital being at Perth, all the worst cases of disease amongst 

 the poor were sent into it from all parts of the colony : consequently the death* 

 were more numerous there than at Freemantle. 



