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mortality, though high, is below that of the last two years.
Table H separates this mortality into quarters, and shews the age
distribution and also the mean temperature and rainfall for each
period of three months.
TABLE H.
Quarter ending.
Children
under
5 years.
Persons
from
5 to 55.
Persons
above
55.
Total.
Mean
Temperature
Fahrenheit.
Rainfall
in
inches.
March
141
01
103
305
36°. 9
4.56
June
56
34
48
138
51°.6
5.50
September
60
14
23
97
57°.6
11.21
December
116
40
60
216
44°.6
6.22
Total, 1888
373
149
234
756
47°.7
Mean
Temperature
for year 1888
27.49
Total, 1887
400
168
232
800
47°.8
Mean
Temperature
for year 1887
19.86
CHILDBIRTH.
Twenty-three women died in Childbed of whom seven had
Hæmorrhage, five Septic Fever, three Peritonitis, three Convulsions,
and one a Ruptured Uterus.
WASTING DISEASES OF INFANTS.
This group, which includes Atrophy and Debility, Want of
Breast Milk, and Premature Birth, accounts for 205 deaths, a
proportion of 26½ per cent, of the total infantile mortality, giving
a rate of 41.5 per thousand births.