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Mr. Hewlett, Officer of Health for Bombay, has sent in

a report for 1867 which vegetarians will not like. Of the 816,562 inhabitants of Bombay, 61,994 belong to the non-flesh-eating -castes; and while the general mortality amounts to 1-89 per cent., -the mortality among them is 2-05 per cent., and this although they belong to the higher orders of society. Considering that the -vegetarian castes of India are as criminal as any others ; that the Burmese, who reverence all life, are remarkable for the number of murders they commit ; and that abstinence from flesh increases the death-rate by .16 per cent., the vegetarians must be rather at loss for an argument.