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METEOROLOGY.
(See Table 8.)
92. The temperature in the Winter quarter of the year
was high; 11 weeks had an average temperature above the
normal, and 2 below. The Spring quarter had a temperature
somewhat above the average, but the Summer quarter was
exceptionally cool and wet; it had 10 weeks below the average,
and only 3 above; its average temperature was 58.0°F.,
which is 2.1 deg. below the average. In the Autumn quarter
the temperature was above the average in 8 weeks, below in 5.
The lowest temperature, 191°F., occurred in the week
ending February 3rd, and the highest, 90.0°F., occurred in
the second week of July.
The rainfall was 24.98in., about the average; most rain,
8.32in., fell in the Autumn quarter. The Summer quarter
had 5.64in. of rain, most of which fell in August.
The largest number of deaths in one week (43) took place
in the same week as the lowest temperature occurred, viz.,
the first week of February. The smallest number of deaths
(15) was in the third week of August.
(See also under Diarrhoea.)