ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
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clothing, and select that which is a non con- 
ductor of heat, and also if they walk where 
they are sheltered by the mountains where 
the average temperature would be much 
higher; the figures given being those of 
the Observatory which is in the plain and 
certainly not the most sheltered spot. 
Public health. — The mortality in 
Alassio is very much under the average 
of the other Italian towns ; and the last six 
years gave the following figures. 
Population to the 1^^ January 1882 — 
5789: 
1884 Deaths 119 
1885 » 111 
1886 » 103 
1887 » 117 
1888 » 132 
1889 » 121 
Annual average 20, 23 per 1000. 
Considering the increase in the popula- 
tion which may be attributed to the Italian 
labourers who have come here in search 
of work, and to the strangers in search 
of health, as well as to 300 persons be- 
