The following List shews the TOTAL NUMBER of INQUESTS held in each locality in the COLONY OF VICTORIA, during the Year 1853. Of the whole 702 Inquests, the Males constitute 84.615 per cent. ... 15.384 99.999 *For half year only. INQUESTS HELD IN MELBOURNE.-1847 to 1853. RETURN OF INQUESTS held in the CITY OF MELBOURNE, from 1st January, 1847, to 31st December, 1853, inclusive. NOTE ON INQUESTS. AN apparent discrepancy will be perceived between the foregoing tables, compiled from the untabulated data furnished by the various Coroners to the office of the Registrar General (pages 394-397) and the table by the City Coroner laid before the Committee of the Legislative Council on Intemperance (page 400). This may in part arise from the different modes of tabulation adopted, but is probably chiefly owing to Dr. Wilmot being in possession of fuller information as to the precise causes of death than has been hitherto furnished to this office. The compiler of these tables, having no previous or collateral knowledge of the causes of death, has tabulated the cases just as they appear on the face of the returns themselves; thus, wherever Intemperance or Excessive Drinking is assigned as the cause of death, the case is classed under Intemperance directly; wherever any specific accident, as a Fall, &c., or any specific disease, as Congestion of the Brain, &c., is assigned as the cause of death in connexion with Intemperance, such cases are classed under Intemperance indirectly; and wherever the death is set down to Accident, and no mention is made of its connexion with Intemperance, it is classed among Accidents simply. This will account for the seeming contradiction of the respective tables as to the proportions of deaths in Melbourne in 1853 from Intemperance and Accident severally. Again: under the head of Insanity, nine cases appear in the Coroner's table, and only three are placed under this head in the preceding tables. This deficiency evidently arises from six cases of Suicide being included which are not mentioned as such in the Coroner's table, and are not stated in his returns as occurring from Insanity. So also the deaths attributed by Dr. Wilmot to Exposure and Want whilst laboring under Disease, exceed those arranged under the corresponding head Neglect, &c., in the foregoing tables, the specific disease being assigned as the cause of death. Thus, Bronchitis from Exposure would be tabulated under Bronchitis; the Exposure being the producing cause of the disease, and the disease the immediate cause of death. W. H. A. DENOMINATION. Number of Schools. www SUMMARY.-DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.-1853. SUMMARY of DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS in the COLONY OF VICTORIA for the Year 1853. Girls. TOTAL. 52 2405 1854 4259 1355 1071 2426 9 335 152 487 242 341 54 169 437 71 115 724 1624 8 ྂ⌘ ཎྜ 。 47 38 73 48 24 32 18 111 154 25 60 67 44 27 7 24 93 21 The numbers in the above statement are substantially correct, but the returns when it was made were not quite complete. The number of scholars is the average number for the whole year. The total number of scholars on the roll at the end of 1853 was 10400. NOTE. For further particulars respecting Schools, see ante, pages 251 and 252.-W. H. A. Singing Master. 46 25 9 23 8 221 12241 13 0 11256 9 2 20270 1 3 11246 19 8 262 10 0 500 0 0 55777 13 1 Purchase of Books. TOTAL. An ABSTRACT of the REVENUE and EXPENDITURE of the PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT, now the COLONY OF VICTORIA, from its first settlement, *The above abstract does not include any part of the expenses of the General Government. The proportion of such expenses chargeable to the Port Phillip District for the thirteen years ending 31st December, 1848, has been estimated by the New South Wales Government, in a Return to that date, to amount to £86280; or an average of about £6635 a year; making for the entire period to 30th June, 1851, a sum of £102842. + In consequence of a change in the system of keeping the public accounts from 1st January, 1850, the expenditure of that year includes a considerable amount of arrear expenses of 1849. The amount stated for 1849, in the above abstract, contains not more than eleven months' expenditure. The amounts of Revenue and Expenditure for the latter half of 1851, and the whole of 1852, do not agree with the Blue Book returns. The present figures are derived from the Abstracts and Statements made by the Auditor General, and laid on the table of the Legislative Council in August, 1852, and September, 1853. An adjusted statement of the Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1853 has not yet been issued from the Audit Office. 21st August, 1854. W. H. A. |