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1st quarter, total deaths 211
2nd do. „ 265
3rd do. „ 128
4th do. „ 165
Total 769
The average death in the Parish for the list ten
years has been 732, so that it will be seen that the
excess of death has been 37; but this has not been
owing to Cholera, for dining the quarter in —which
Cholera was prevalent the death is less than in any
other quarter. I can only attribute this to the
general anxiety to care for health when a great
danger is near, combined with the sanity activity
prevailing during such a period. The excess of
mortality above the average really occurred in the
first and second quarters of the year, and was due to
the same causes of which I made an elaborate and
special investigation in the report which I laid before
you for the year 1864. The prevention of the influence
of sudden cold on life has not yet sufficiently occupied
the attention of those engaged in the study of
the laws of life, and at the present time our death
rate is more influenced by the unlooked-for de-
pression of external temperature than any other
cause.