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 of the bowels is the most common morbid appearance.

Consistently with the infrequency of the low or malignant typhus, we seldom observe that inflammatory affections of the head, the lungs, or the abdominal viscera, have a tendency to assume the type designated after this form of fever. The same may be said of the exanthemata.

The following is a classification of 700 medical cases treated in the Bristol Infirmary, in the year 1832, for which we are indebted to our very intelligent friend Mr. Morgan, late house-surgeon to that institution.

We shall now proceed to offer one or two statements relative to the ratio of mortality in this district, which we are the better enabled to do through the assistance of some original tables, kindly furnished us by Mr. Rankin, Actuary to the Bristol Union Fire and Life Insurance Company. This gentleman was at the pains of consulting, a few years ago, the various registers of burials in the city and out-parishes, in order to ascertain the numbers and