*U. S. Census-the intervening years' population estimated.

The following comparative table will show the mean temperature of the summer months for the past eleven years:

MONTHS. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882.

1883. 1884. 1885., 1886.

Deg. Deg. Den. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg.
42.2 71.7 67.9 71.7 73.8 67.1 72.9 73.7 70.5 70.6
78.6 77.8 77.3 75.6 75.6 77.5 77.4 76.1
71.8 77.2
74.3 75.5 73.4 72.7 72.8 75.0 73.9 71.9 72.5 71.8
63.8 68.8 67.9 64.4 67.7 74.8 69.1
64.5 70.6 65.2
72.52 72.95 71.62 71.10 72.47 73.10 73.32 71.5 71.3 71.2

68.6

74.6

73.2

69.2

71.4

The number of deaths from diphtheria amounted to four hundred and eleven (411), a decrease from the previous year of one hundred and eighty-nine (189); the deaths from scarlet fever amounted to two hundred and forty-eight (248), a decrease from the previous year of one hundred and twenty-seven (127).

The following comparative table shows the number of deaths from each disease for the past nineteen years:

The number of births registered during the year was twenty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-one (23,221), an increase over the previous year of five hundred and sixty-five (565), or 2.49 per cent.

The number of male births was twelve thousand one hundred and five (12,105), an increase over the previous year of two hundred and eighty-nine (239); the female births numbered eleven thousand one hundred and sixteen (11,116), an increase over the previous year of two hundred and seventy-six (276).

The following table will show the number of births in each month, the number of colored births, also the still-births, twins and triplets:

The number of births in each quarter of the year was as follows:

23,221

The following table presents the births in each ward during the year 1886:

The largest number of births occurred in the Nineteenth wardone thousand five hundred and eighty (1,580); and the lowest in the Ninth ward-one hundred and sixty-one (161).

MARRIAGES.

The number of marriages registered during the year 1886 amounted to six thousand two hundred and fifteen (6,215), a decrease from the previous year from one thousand four hundred and sixty-one (1,461).

Triplets.

NATIVITIES.

TABLE III.-MARRIAGES. Nativities of the Parties.

BIRTHPLACE OF BRIDES.

The number of marriages in which both parties were natives of the United States was three thousand two hundred and four (3,204), and the number of marriages in which both parties were of foreign birth was one thousand five hundred and forty-eight (1,548), and the number of marriages in which the nativities of both parties was unknown was three hundred and twenty-five (325).

The number of men married, natives of the United States, three thousand six hundred and fifty-nine (3,659), and the number of women three thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine (3,869); the nativities of three hundred and seventy-eight (378) men and three hundred and sixty-one (361) women have been omitted.

The number of men of foreign birth married amounted to two thousand one hundred and seventy-eight (2,178), of whom six hundred and twenty (620) married women of the United States, and one thousand five hundred and forty-eight (1,548) married women of foreign birth.

The following table will show the ages of the parties married during the year 1886:

TABLE IV.-MARRIAGES. Age of the Parties.

The number of men married under the age of twenty was eighteen. (18), while the women of same age amounted to five hundred and seventy-two (572); the number of men married between the age of twenty and twenty-five amounted to one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven (1,877), and the number of women between the same age was two thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (2,888); the number of men married between twenty-five and thirty was one thousand five hundred and eighteen (1,518), while the women of the same age was two thousand one hundred and ninety-five (2,195); the number of men married between thirty and fifty amounted to one thousand five hundred and seventy (1,580); one hundred and forty-eight (148) men were married between fifty and seventy; and four (4) married over the age of seventy; twelve (12) women were married between sixty and seventy.

In the above figures the still-born and premature births and bodies brought to the city are not included, thus showing the actual mortality.