modes adopted by the decedents to produce death are seen in the following table: —

and 22 females. Their locations, with the ages of the dents, are designated in the

following:

dece

The number of deaths

designated by these two terms was 305 (265 of the former, and 40 of the latter), making 3.88 per cent of the whole mortality. There is too much reason to believe that the term marasmus" is very frequently made to do duty as a sort of medical packhorse for all the doubtful diseases that cannot be readily disposed of otherwise, when convenience renders it advisable to impose the burden.

The death in the wards and public institutions arc given in

As usual, the largest mortality of any two wards occurred in Wards 2 and 7, though there was a diminished percentage compared with the preceding year. Wards 12, 1, and 15 follow in the order in which they are named, making the mortality in the five wards, which contain 45 per cent. of the population of the city, 47.19 per cent. of all the deaths. A strong contrast is offered to this statement by the mortality in Wards 4, 5, 8, 13, 14, 16. These last-named wards contain 27 per cent. of the population, while the deaths in those localities make only 18.16 per cent. of the entire mortality. The deaths in the hospitals make 13.79 per cent. of the whole number, an increase of nearly 3 per cent. It will be observed that there were no less than 168 deaths in St. Ann's Infant Asylum, an institution connected with the Carney Hospital. The decedents were mostly children under six months. These deaths make 2.14 per cent. of the whole mortality.

The following recapitulatory table gives the percentage of deaths from various classes of diseases:

XIV. SHOWING THE LOCALITIES OF THE DEATHS FROM SCARLATINA.

The figures enclosed in parentheses, in this and following tables, indicate the number of deaths in that house.