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TABLE III.
Meteorological Means for 1859.*
Jan., Feb.,
and
March
April, May,
and
June
July, Aug.,
and
September
Oct., Nov.,
and
December
The Year
Temperature of the Air
43°9
52°6
6106
43°0
50°3
Evaporation
42°6
49°2
57°5
41°2
47°6
Dew Point
41°2
46°1
54°7
39°0
45°3
Weight of Vapour in
a cubic foot of Air
3.24 grs.
3.78 grs.
4.97 grs.
3. 00 grs.
3.7 grs.
Degree of Humidity
(Satn 100)
91°9
79°9
79°1
86°5
84°3
Reading of Barometer
30.038 in.
29 .872 in.
29.976 in.
29.822 in.
29.927 in.
Weight of a cubic foot
of Air
550.1 grs.
535.9 grs.
527.4 grs.
543.3 grs.
539.2 grs.
Rain (amount of)
3.731 in.
9.24 in.
7.43 in.
7.76in.
28.16 in.
* These will be found to differ somewhat from those of the Registrar General, the
former being derived from observations taken in the centre of this district, the latter
from observations taken at Greenwich.
TABLE IV.
Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases in each Sub-district
and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality
during the years 1855-9.
Deaths from Epidemics in each Sub-district
Entire District
Years
Clapham
Battersea
Wandsworth
Putney
Streatham
Total Deaths
from
Epidemics
Total Deaths
Registered
Per centage of
Deaths from
Epidemics to
Total Deaths
1855
41
39
50
4
16
150
1144
13.1
1856
39
45
44
13
15
156
1144
13.6
1857
55
46
28
7
14
150
1097
13.6
1858
85
100
22
20
15
241
1264
19.0
1859
63
96
60
26
38
283
1322
21.4
*** The Diseases included in the above Table are six in number, and constitute,
as in the Registrar General's Returns, the principal maladies of the Zymotic
class, viz., Small-pox, Measles, Scarlatina (including Diphtheria), Hooping Cough,
Diarrhoea and Dysentery, and Fever.