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it has not been less for the preceding two

than it is estimated for the last), _ bear

-years

the sanie relativer percentage

the

as it does in

various sections of the population, and thus, uniformly with the rest, show

a

gratifying deaths for the last year

diminution in the number of

ال

may

be sace of some of

the foregoing tables and calculation that

they

are not strictly correct, and this remark apfilic's ceficially and perhaps alone to the

calculations

Srecisely

the

embracing

the entire population :

kamè causes

of inaccuracy

have

cxisted in the two previous year, and there

be no doubt that they will always

Car

possess an average

and uniform proportion to the truth. This fact indeed is made apparent by a comparison with the

sectional statistics, which

are

be accurate.

What inference

them

known to

is to be

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drawn from the whole ? We learn that reference to every class of persons, the

has been remarkable for it's

in

last.

" year

exemption from endemic diseases, and for

a low seale

of mortality

St

it a

anoet

gratifying discovery to make, yet it may be the cause of halling

res into a sente

of

fuithley's security, and of concealing from

the dangers which surround us.

destroyed.

dormant, but not

They

Че

ard

The sources

of malaria_ and I pestilence are hardly fewer

than they

now

exist

neid

/

AJ

werd live

Ther

• years ago. heretofore, sinks of decomposition

and laboratories of poisonous gases,

but the

atmospherical agencies for bringing, there

: into

wanting.

and to

dangerous affinities have been It is well to consider this fact, believe it, viz.

that the atmospherical

influences are beyond

our

control, but wo

card abate the evil of animal and vegetable.

decomposition.

Is

it wise to wait for the