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the sky was overcast, the air damp, the wind changed in the night
to S. by E., and passed for four days over Greenwich at the rate
of 200 and 300 miles daily. The temperature suddenly rose and
remained from 2 to 9 degrees above the average through the
week ending November 27th, when the deaths of 1,667 persons
were registered in London.
"Influenza was Epidemic. In the first week of December,
2,454 persons died. In the week following, 2,416 persons died.
The deaths in the weeks ending Saturday, December the 18th,
25th, and January 1st were 1,946, 1,247, and 1,599. 11,339
persons died in six weeks, and altogether the Epidemic carried off
more than 5,000 souls over and above the mortality of the season.
The Epidemic attained the greatest intensity in the second week
of its course, raged with nearly equal violence through the third
week, declined in the fourth, and then partly subsided, but the
temperature falling, the mortality remained high, not only through
December, but through the month of January."
CHOLERA IN 1892.
During the latter part of August, 1892, this country was
much startled by the intelligence that a serious outbreak of Asiatic
Cholera had occurred at Hamburg, and it was thought that the
disease would, in all probability, spread to England by means of
passengers, more especially by the importation of the destitute
pauper aliens from Hamburg and other parts; but thanks to the
prompt measures taken by the Local Government Board, the
disease did not make any headway.
Under an "Order," which applied to all ships infected with
Cholera, no alien of the class indicated which arrived in English