Belfast District.—As compared with the previous year the numbers in residence show a decrease of 5—the actual total being 985. The admissions increased by 15, discharges and deaths diminished by 6 and 61 respectively; but the death-rate still stands at an abnormally high figure, being 14.8 per cent. of the daily average number resident—not of the total number resident during the year, which the wording of the report would appear to imply.