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 136 after 40, a great many more persons attain the advanced ages in the Malvern locality, than in the rest of England.

Diseases.—It is not the object of the present communication to embrace a minute account of the diseases prevalent in the district. The following is a classification of those diseases treated in the practice of the Malvern Dispensary, during a period of four years (from 1830 to 1834). The benefits of this institution are conferred upon poor persons, not entitled to parish relief; in Great Malvern and the adjacent parishes, both in the western and eastern divisions. Omitting all surgical diseases, and complaints of a local or very trivial nature, there were admitted in this period—