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Snow fell on 17 days during the year, covering the ground at 9
a.m. on four days. Days with thunderstorms (or thunder alone)
numbered 14; days with hail, eight; days with at least three minutes
of measured sunshine, 292; nights with ground-frost (temperature on
grass 30.4 deg. or lower), 121.
The most brilliant day of the year was June 18th, when 14.7
hours of sunshine were registered.
May was both the wettest and the dullest month of that name
in the series of observations extending back to 1910; the rainfall of
4.08 ins., was more than double the normal, and the total duration of
sunshine, 111.7 hours, only 52 per cent. of the normal."
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
For the purpose of this Report the Registrar General's estimate
of the population at the middle of 1932, which was calculated to have
been 90,130, has been adopted.

Marriages.
The Superintendent Registrar informs me that 822 marriages
were registered in the Borough during 1932, as compared with 763 in
the preceding year. The marriage rate per 1,000 of the population
for the year 1932 was 18.2.