MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE AND ART. 
HEALTH OF SYDNEY. 
The following table is published by the 
Registrar-General every month, and will be 
carefully re-printed in this journal, form¬ 
ing at the close of each year a valuable 
statistical document. 
The table printed for the present month 
contains the aggregate amount of deaths 
during the months of May, June, and July, 
1857. These are printed in one table, in 
order to enable us to overtake the usual 
monthly issue, which will in future be a 
copy of the official document. 
The following is a statement of the births 
registered during the first seven months of 
the present year. 
February* 
March, 
April* 
May 
June 
, 91 
males . 
.. 101 
females. 
73 
do. 
.. 78 
do 1 
85 
do. 
.. 98 
do. 
114 
do. 
. 105 
do. 
93 
do. 
.. Ill 
do. 
118 
do. 
100 
do. 
SUMMARY OF DEATHS of both sexes Registered in Sydney, during the three 
months from ls£ of May to 30 th July 185/. 
Causes of Death. 
Zymotic Diseases. 
Endemic, Epidemic, & Con¬ 
tagious.*. 
Sporadic Diseases. 
Of Uncertain Seat. —Dropsy 
and other Diseases of Van- 
able Seat. 
Of Nervous System c. Dis¬ 
eases of the Brain, &c. ... 
Of Respiratory System .— 
Diseases of the Lungs, &c. 
Of Circulatory System .— 
Diseases of the Heart and 
Blood vessels. 
Of Digestive Organs. Dis¬ 
eases of the Stomach, 
Liver* &c. 
Of Urinary Organs .—Dis¬ 
eases of the Kidneys, &c.., 
Of Generative Organs . 
Of Locomotive Organs.— 
Rheumatism, Diseases of 
the Bones, Joints, &c.. 
Of Integumentary System .— 
Diseases of the Skin.. 
Old Age . 
External Causes. Yiolencee, 
Privation, & intemperance. 
Unspecified... . 
10 
11 
Total from all Causes 
in the three Months..., 
63 
24 
T3 wi 
22 
8 2 
;U 
3 
3 
5( e 
i 
2 1 
96 
12 
1 1 
'St 
8 19-22 19 20 
1718 
IS 
17 
289 
CHRIS. EOLLESTON, Eejistrar General 
