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OF PORT PHILLIP.
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a proportion of 1 in 17 and 1 in 55 respectively for twelve months. Comparing this with other statistical accounts, I find that the average proportion of deaths is

In England and Wales       1 in 60
Sweden and Holland 1 in 48
France 1 in 40
Europe generally 1 in 41[1]

It should be remembered, too, that if there were anything in the climate unfavourable to human life or health, it would be likely soon to show itself amongst the number of emigrants who from time to time arrive, and who, from the effects of a long voyage, would be of course peculiarly susceptible of injurious influences. The following table will give a more complete view of the particulars of the meteorological phenomena:—

  1. An average of the proportion of deaths in the Sydney district for the twelve years ending in January, 1841, gives 1 in 53·15.— See Mansfield's Tables, Sydney, 1841.