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It will be seen that the greatest mortality occurred in
the first quarter of the year when nine hundred and forty-nine
of the deaths were registered. Th% highest weekly mortality
was the first week of the year ending 6th January, 1900, when
one hundred and fifty deaths occurred, principally from diseases
of the respiratory organs. The last quarter of the year had
the lowest mortality, six hundred and twenty-eight deaths
being recorded, and the lowest weekly mortality was that
for the week ending 14th July, when only thirty-one deaths
occurred.
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Births and Deaths.