ease,69 males and 61 females, a decrease of 106 from the number recorded in 1862. They make 2.76 per cent of all the deaths.

Gunshot Wounds: — There were 16 deaths thus reported. Five of them were of soldiers wounded in battle, and the remaining eleven those that were wounded in the riot of July last, -8 men and 3 females. An impression has considerably prevailed, that a large number of lives were lost in that disturbance; this is a mistake, the number killed was as above stated.

Heart, Disease of. The number of deaths thus reported was 135,-74 males and 61 females, an increase of 20 over the number of the preceding year. The as

signed cause of some of these deaths was wholly conjectural, they being reported from examinations after death.

Hooping Cough.-There were 37 deaths from this disease, two less than occurred in 1862.

Homicide. There were nine deaths of this character, -all males. There were six during the preceding year. Hydrocephalus. -This disease caused 181 deaths, 95 males and 86 females, 22 less than were reported in 1862, making 3.85 per cent of the entire mortality.

Infantile Diseases. The deaths from diseases thus specified number 76,40 males and 36 females. This term is used to designate those cases where no definite cause of death could be stated. Most of them were children of but a few hours old, dying on the day of

their birth.

Intemperance.

There were 45 deaths from this 30 males and 15 females, -five less than the number recorded during the previous year. Those

cause,

dying from Delirium Tremens are embraced in this number.

Lungs, Diseases of. The number of deaths from causes thus recorded was 344,-181 males and 163 females, making 7.32 per cent of all the deaths. During the preceding year they made but 6.48 per cent of the mortality of that year.

Marasmus.-There were 138 deaths from this dis42 more than died in 1862.

ease,

Measles. There were but 7 deaths from this cause during the year. During the previous year, there were 78.

Old Age. The number of deaths thus recorded, was 94, - an increase of 13 over the number of the year 1862. 33 were males and 61 females. One of the latter was reported to be 104 years old at the time of her death.

Paralysis.-There were 66 deaths from this cause,— 34 males and 32 females, - an increase of 7 over the number of 1862.

Premature Birth. The number of deaths thus designated was 61,-31 males and 30 females, an increase of 14 over the number of the preceding year. Undoubtedly, some of the deaths embraced by the term Infantile," were of children prematurely born.

Peritonitis. The deaths thus reported number 24, -7 males and 17 females. There is reason to believe that, in the cases of some of the females, a more exact return could have been made by the physicians.

Smallpox.-There were 11 deaths from this disease, a decrease of two from the number of the preceding year.

Sore Throat.-The number of deaths thus recorded was 36, 16 males and 20 females.

six less than oc

Suicides. There were but 9 deaths of this character recorded during last year, curred during the preceding year. of males and four of females.

Sunstroke.

Five of them were

There were 10 deaths from this cause,

· nine males and one female.

It will be seen by the above, that the deaths the past year, during the periods of life stated in the table, correspond very closely with the number that died during the same periods in the preceding year. The greatest difference was between those dying between the ages of 40 and 50,- the deaths during that period the past year being nearly 2 per cent more than they were in 1862.

The above table shows the number of deaths in each ward, and in the several public institutions, together with the percentage of deaths in each place to the whole mortality. There was a slight decrease in Wards 1, 4, 9, and 11, and an increase of more than two per cent in Ward 10. The percentage of deaths in the public institutions was almost the same in both years.

The foregoing exhibits the number of stillbirths reported each month during the year. In New York, these cases are recorded as deaths; in some other places they are reckoned among the births. In Boston, as well as throughout this State, they are not regarded either as births or deaths, but are recorded by themselves, and so returned to the Secretary of State. The number of these cases during the past year was 361. The number of males was 195; females, 149; unknown, 17. Undoubtedly there are some, which, for obvious reasons, are not reported almost every year. Numbered with the deaths, they make 7.49 per cent of

XI. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE, AND DEATHS RECORDED IN 1863.