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Total
79 Military 67 Navy
3 Police
- 149 against 119 last year ; this increase is of course attributable
to the greatly increased numbers congregated here, and it may possibly not be considered excessive under the
circumstances.
The increased number of Civilians
resident
in the city would induce the belief that, a corresponding addition to the number of deaths would result, it is impossible however to arrive at any general correct average of deaths amongst bivilians, as there is no
registry hept
in my Office of Interments other than in the Government bemetery: –
40
iast
bivilian adults and 44 Fyear 11
children
evere buried ; this year 18 adults and 8 children . An increase in the number of
deaths amongst Merchant Seamen would follow as a matter of course considering
the increased trade of the Port, and
the addition to the Fleet ships by the regular and hired Transports, but every with this large addition it is satisfactory
to observe that, the increase of deaths
amounted only to q, the total number
interred this
year being
51.
Paupers buried entirely distitute, comprising
searrien ared. others amounted to 27,
the number last year being
number
21: thus
forming a total of 240 deaths. The
being 199 for the year, 1859. The fees rescivable for the year are
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