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Thus the temperature, being above the average in the winter
and autumn, and below in the spring and summer, was
favourable to health.
The temperature three feet below the ground averaged
59°.68 in the summer quarter, and never exceeded 61°.09.
The highest temperature of the air was 86°.l in the third
week of July, and the lowest 14° 3 in the last week in February.
The highest number of deaths in one week occurred in the
first week of March, i.e., the week following that in which the
lowest temperature occurred. The week of highest average
temperature was the last in June (viz., 64°.8), and that of
lowest average the third in February (30°.4).
The total rainfall of the year was 20.13 inches, of which
3 42 inches fell in the first quarter, 6 59 in the second, 5.91 in
the third, and 4.21 in the fourth. In 1901 the rainfall was
20.16 inches.