Accidents. The number of deaths thus classed (embracing those from burns, scalds, and drowning) was 160,124 males and 36 females, making 3.40 per cent of the entire mortality. During the preceding year, the deaths from accidental causes made 3.44 per cent of the whole number. All the deaths from casualties have been classed together, for the sake of convenience, although the record specifies the form of the accidents.

Apoplexy. There were 70 deaths from this cause, — 46 males and 24 females, an increase of 14 over the number reported in 1862, and making nearly 1.49 per cent of the entire mortality.

Bowels, Diseases of. The number of deaths from causes thus designated, was 63,33 males and 30 females, comprising 51 instances of "Inflammation of the Bowels," and 12 reported simply as "Disease of Bowels." In 1862, there were 49 deaths thus recorded —

Brain, Diseases of. There were 168 deaths thus recorded, -88 males and 80 females, - an increase of 12 over the number that died the previous year. These cases embrace 20 deaths from "Inflammation of Brain," 80 reported as "Congestion of Brain," and 68 as "Disease of Brain." Those reported by Physicians as Meningitis are designated by the last term, as well as some not susceptible of a more definite specification. The deaths from diseases of the brain make 3.57 per cent of the whole mortality. In 1862, they made 3.78 per cent.

Bronchitis. This disease caused 110 deaths, making 2.34 per cent of the whole mortality. This percentage in 1862 was 2.52. The decedents were 56