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The Officers of Government generally).

Table. N36. _ The extent and proportion of sickness

and death amongst all persons employed by Government, in 1852.

Total Mr. Total

Deaths

Designation. Strength of sick. of Deaths to Strength

Givil Officers. Police

52

24

184

150

Cotal 236

174

8

3.39 F.C.

157.

The general Population.

77

Table Nr. 7. The strength, and proportion of

deaths amongst the various sections

of the entire population in 1852.

Designation. Strength. Deaths. Rate of mortality Europeant, 796

Americans, &c..

Christians of mixed

blood, Indians, &c.

67 8.42 7.6.

745 76 10.20.

Chinese.

35,517 1,028

2.89

Total.

37,058

117!

3.16.

Some of the highest functionaries in the Colony obtained leave of absence

last

year, not so much

on account

of any

immò

diately urgent. sickness, as for the purpose of renovating the general health, - deteriorated by a long residence in the East.

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The physical circumstances which surround the population of this Colony cannot be investigated too often. The experience of every country demonstrates the injurious influence of a - settlement upon human health, and the gradual, imperceptible and beneficial changes which the appliances

a new

and arrangements of civilization and habitation

produced. The formation of roads, the

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draining of the land, - its cultivation, and the equal adaptation of vegetable to animal life.