Abortive and Still-born.

Christmas and Infants.

Take the weeks in which the plague was most violent, and compare them with the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. For example:—

Child-bed. Abortive. Still-born.

From January 3 to January 10 7 1 13

" " 10 " 17 8 6 11

" " 17 " 24 9 5 15

" " 24 " 31 3 2 9

" " 31 to February 7 3 3 8

" February 7 " 14 6 2 11