The figures in the Bulletin are official and show that for the month of June, the deaths in Paris numbered 505, compared with an average of 903; for July, 562, compared with 815; for August, 585, compared with 688; for September, 587, compared with 688. In the winter, the number of deaths will more nearly approach the average, owing to winter maladies which are less affected by food conditions. Population Not Decreased. The question will be raised immediately: Does not this decrease in the total number of deaths simply mean that Paris now has fewer people? The municipal statistical service, although an exact census of the actual population of Paris, fixed and floating, is impossible, says no, for the following reasons: First, in the five preceding years from which the average figures were computed, there were two and a half years of war; second, in place of the men gone to the front, Paris now has thousands of refugees, foreigners and workmen from the provinces. Besides, the men sent to the front represent the healthiest portion of the population, while the proportion of those least able to resist disease, children and old persons, to say nothing of refugees, often much weakened, has been increased. 