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The week ending October 31st was, like the previous four weeks—
wet. Minimum temperature, 39.2°; maximum, 58.0°; mean, 52.8°. Winds,
S.W. Rain fell each day save one (1.19 inch). Sunshine 20.7 per cent.
Mean barometer 29.4 inches.
Hence no less than 24 out of 35 were days of rain, the rainfall in this
district reaching the total figure of 5.63 inches—a greater rainfall than has
been experienced within living memory during the corresponding period.
Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending October 31st there have been registered
261 births and 183 deaths These births and deaths are divided among the
five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV, Sixty of the deaths were
extra-parochial, as follow:—
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill 40
Children's Hospital, Paddington 3
„ Great Ormond Street 1
North-Eastern Children's Hospital 1
Western Fever Hospital 3
North-Western Fever Hospital 1
St. Mary's Hospital 2
St. George's Hospital 1
St. Thomas' Hospital 2
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1
University Hospital 1
Friedenheim 1
French Hospital 1
Hanwell Asylum 1
In the Streets 1
Total 60
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the five weeks' statistics,
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 16.4; death-rate 12.6.
Rectory, birth-rate 23.0 death-rate 16.2.
St. Mary, birth-rate 17.8; death-rate 12.6.
Christ Church, birth-rate 21.8; death-rate 16.6.
St. John, birth-rate 23.9; death-rate 12.2.
The whole district, birth-rate 20.4; death-rate 14.3.