MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

Number of deaths. Summer average. Annual average.

Zymotic (orEpidenaic, Endemic, and Contagious) Diseases 308 ... 201 ... 188

115 ... 99 ... 104

Dropsy, Cancer' and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

158 ... 155 ... 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 199 ... 227 ... 294 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 27

... 27 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 87

... 72 Diseasea of the Kidneys, do. 16

... 7 Childbirth, diseases of the Ilterus, Sc 7

RheumAtism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, de

8

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc. 3

Old Age 38 ... 52 ... 87 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 25

... 28 Total (including unspecified causes)

toes ...

898 ... 988

The deaths from diarrhoea, which in the above return are included under the head of• zymotic disease, were 156, 130 of which were infantile cases; and 26 deaths from cholera, not Asiatic, but of the sporadic kind, usually occurring at this period of the year, are also recorded. The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 95.5° in the sun to 46.4° in the shade ,• the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 0.2°. The direction of the wind for the week was principally South-west.

week ending on Saturday last- Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the