REMARKS.-The month of September, compared with the preceding month, shows a from which cause there were about 1,000 fewer deaths; there was also a small diminution in fever increased from 171 to 287 deaths, and diphtheria from 266 to 334 deaths. The number of fewer deaths occurred from accidents, chiefly drowning, The total number of reported deaths mortality is 1,000 greater, the increase being, among local diseases, in deaths from diseases of more deaths, the increase showing, relatively, in diarrhoeal diseases, diphtheria, typhoid fever Russell, and a considerable prevalence is noted in localities in the Maritime district and along localities, and there were 100 more deaths in the State from this cause than one year ago. In thirty thousand; 2.44 per cent of all deaths were from typhoid fever, and 4.04 from diphtheria. In deaths from typhoid fever is 4.90, and from diphtheria 2.74. Of 1,886 deaths occurring in rural diphtheria. diminished infant and zymotic death rate, the chief diminution being in diarrhoeal diseases, scarlet fever and measles. From malarial diseases there was a moderate increase; typhoid deaths attributed to diseases of the nervous system is considerably less and about one-third from all causes is 1.000 less than in August. Compared with September, 1890, the total reported the digestive and nervous systems, and from zymotic diseases there were about four per cent and scarlet fever. Typhoid fever epidemics have been reported from Auburn, Laurens, and the Mohawk valley. Diphtheria has been unusually prevalent, epidemically, in numerous cities, with an aggregate population of 3,657,500, the average annual death rate is 22.10 per forty-seven large villages with 417,000 population, the death rate is 19.80; the percentage of towns, not specified in the Bulletin, 3.92 per cent were from typhoid fever, and 2.12 from |