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The diseases of the organs of digestion include cases of dyspepsia, and other functional derangements, as well as the more important ones of enteritis and peritonitis: the numbers, therefore, although large, do not include a majority of dangerous complaints. The diseases of the organs of respiration embrace the greatest number of important cases, phthysis and inflammatory complaints of the chest being often prevalent throughout the district; that they are frequently fatal in the early periods of life, will be seen by the following account of the deaths occurring in the four years previously stated:

In the foregoing tabular statement the great majority of deaths in the earlier periods of life, from phthysis and inflammation of the pulmonary structures, is strongly marked, one-third of the whole number, or 11 dying of these complaints between