These tables only show the number of cases of diseases amongst the liberated Africans who were taken from the slaveships and forwarded to the Kissy Hospital. The slaves are generally in a wretched state of health when landed, and subject to every kind of disease. The tables there do not show the number of admissions and the mortality amongst the population at Kissy, but only the number amongst the emancipated slaves.

The following tables of the mortality of the River Gambia from 1859 to 1866 were kindly furnished me by Mr Thomas Johnson, the registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, expressly for this work. In 1859 and 1866 the colony was visited with yellow fever, and consequently the mortality amongst the small European population was very large.

MORTALITY AMONGST THE NATIVE AND EUROPEAN POPULATION AT BATHURST, RIVER GAMBIA, FOR THE YEARS 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866.

Mortality for 1866.-From January to the 12th of October.

TOTAL MORTALITY (MALE AND FEMALE) OF BLACK AND COLOURED

From the above table it is evident that the highest rate of mortality was between the years of 1 and 7; that should the infant escape this unfortunate period, he stands a chance of