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than that of London, and than that of the South districts of
London among which it is situated, as shewn in the following
Table.

The death rates of last year, not only in Lambeth and
London, but throughout the kingdom, were unusually low;
and this diminution of mortality was doubtless correlated with
the climate of the year. The mean temperature of the
atmosphere was 47.0 degrees, and its dryness 4.6 degrees,
while the rainfall amounted to 32.0 inches. Not one of the
last twenty years exceeded the past year in the three points
of temperature, highness of moisture for the temperature, and
quantity of rainfall. The year which corresponded most
closely to it in its average features was 1841, in which
the mean temperature was 48.7 degrees, the dryness 5 0
degrees, and the rainfall 33.3 inches. The year 1852 also
exceeded it in the quantity of its rainfall, which amounted to
34.8 inches, but the mean temperature of that year was very
high, namely, 50.6 degrees, as was also the dryness of the
atmosphere, namely 7.0 degrees.
Owing to the abundant rainfall of the autumn of 1859, and
the winter of 1859—60, the river Thames was in the early
summer of 1860 full of fresh water, and scarcely in a condition
to become very objectionable, even if a dry and hot season
had supervened. The Lambeth Vestry therefore opposed