Total marriages at Perth, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive...
32
Total baptisms at Perth, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive...
130
TABLE of DEATHS, MARRIAGES, and BIRTHS, at FREEMANTLE.
year 1830. deaths.
Disease.
No.
Dysentery
10
Scurvy
10
Consumption
1
Dropsy
1
Childbed
2
Killed by natives
1
Total
25
year 1831. deaths.
Disease.
No.
Scurvy
12
Dysentry
3
Consummmption
1
Killed by natives
1
17
year 1832. deaths.
Disease.
No.
Apoplexy
2
Dysentry
1
Scurvy
1
Consumption
1
Cancer in womb
1
Killed in a duel
1
Drowned
4
Hanged himself
1
4
year 1833. deaths.
Disease.
No.
Convulsions
2
Speared by natives
2
4
Total marriages at Freemantle, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive...
21
Total baptisms at Freemantle, from 1830 to 1833 inclusive...
24
I am indebted to the Rev. J. B. Wittenoom, the Colonial Chaplain, for the foregoing tables of deaths, marriages and births, which were copied from his Register. They will give some idea of the prevailing diseases and mortality for each Year, with the gradual decrease of sickness as the colony advanced. These tables however can only be looked upon as an approximation to the truth, as in the early state of a new colony, it was difficult to obtain correct information in all cases. They include settlers, soldiers, women and children.
The Colonial hospital being at Perth, all the worst cases of disease amongst the poor were sent into it from all parts of the colony: consequently the deaths were more numerous there than at Freemantle.
