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Now the most remarkable thing about this table
is that the 1st Quarter of 1864, gives the lowest
temperature of the 1st Quarters of the three years.
It was in that Quarter the great excess of death
occurred, and it is to that fall of temperature or
rather that continuous loiv temperature to which we
must attribute the excess of death of 1864.
PREDISPOSING CAUSES OF DEATH
FROM COLD.
But there is another question of high interest to us,
and that is how is it that certain persons die of cold,
whilst certain other persons live on. Although I
have shewn that the great excess of death fell on
persons between thirty and sixty years of age, yet
after all only a few persons comparatively speaking,
of that age died in the Parish. What then were
the causes that predisposed to that death ?
Occupation.—I have stated that the results of my
examination of the cases of death, did not shew
that any particular occupation predisposed to death.
Overcrowding.—The fact that the largest amount
of the excessive mortality fell upon the Berwick
Street district, would seem to indicate that this has