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The Temperature during the year was also noteworthy, as the
mean temperature for each month was in excess of the average, excepting
March, May, and June.
The warmest month was August, and the coldest was March.
1 he mean temperature for the whole year was 2 degrees above
the average for the previous 50 years.
The highest shade temperature, 92.1 deg., was recorded on September
8th, and is the highest reading on record for so late a period
in the year.
The lowest temperature, 26.1 deg., was recorded on February 21st,
and is the highest winter record for the past 16 years.
In the early and late months of the year the immunity from frost
was most exceptional.
There has been also a remarkable freedom from fogs.
Two important points in the year's record—namely, the severe
epidemic of Diarrhoea, and the serious water-famine—may be in a great
measure ascribed to the long-continued drought.
In addition to Diarrhoea, there was a severe epidemic of Measles
during the early part of the year, and Whooping Cough was somewhat
prevalent in May.
Typhoid Fever increased suddenly in October, but never assumed
epidemic proportions.
POPULATION.
The District still increases rapidly in population, and I have decided
to estimate the total at 90,000 at the middle of the year, exclusive
of Public Institutions, which alone have a population of 2,380.
During the year there have been 757 houses erected and certified
as being fit for occupation.
Area 2,500 acres.
No. of persons per acre 36