10 
ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
tween the College of Don BoscOy and the 
female College whose death-rate is included 
in the average rate, the mortality of this 
town may be estimated at 18 per 1000, or 
even less. 
Statistics of the mortality in the cities 
of Italy published by order of the mini- 
stry, give for the year 1886 a mortality 
of 22.35 for Sanremo; now in that same 
year the mortality in Alassio was but 17.79. 
It should be noted that of those six years, 
one, viz. 1887, was the fatal year of the 
earthquake in Alassio, when three persons 
were found dead under the ruins, and 
more than fifteen died from the indirect 
consequences of the earthquake: the Civic 
Hospital was crowded, and nearly every 
day invalids were received of whom se- 
veral already delicate, and with health 
still further impaired by a life of priva- 
tion and exposure to inclement weather 
in badly made huts, perished soon after 
the famous date of the 23'"^ of February. 
Notwithstanding all this, the deaths came 
only to 117, scarcely exceeding by 14 those 
of the proceeding year. 
