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average, and 6.1 below the Metropolitan rate (25.2) which,
however, was 1.2 above the average. The deaths from the
principal diseases of the zymotic class were 14, being 16
below the average: mean temperature 44°.8; average of
ten years, 45.6.
In the fifth period (17th-20th weeks; April 22 to May
19), the death-rate fell to 13.5, being 4.0 below the average,
and 7.3 below the Metropolitan rate (20.8) which was 0.5
below the average. The deaths from the principal diseases
of the zymotic class were 11, just half the average: mean
temperature 48°.8; average of ten years, 49°.8.
In the sixth period (21st-24th weeks; May 20 to June 16),
there was a slight rise in the death-rate—to 14.7, but it was
1.9 below the average, and 3'8 below the Metropolitan rate,
(18.5), this being 0.9 below the decennial average. The
deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic class
were 13, being 19 below the average: mean temperature
58°.1; average of ten years, 55.2.
In the seventh period (25th-28th weeks; June 17 to July 15),
the death-rate fell to 12.9, being 2.7 below the decennial rate,
and 6.7 below the Metropolitan rate (19.6) which was about
average. The deaths from the principal diseases of the
zymotic class were 26 below the average. The mean temperature
in this period 61°.3, was the same as the decennial
average, and the deaths from diarrhoea, which had been 4
in the preceding period, rose to 22, as against 2 in the
corresponding weeks in 1882, when the temperature was
59°.2, and the weather rainy. The corrected decennial
average number of deaths from diarrhoea for these weeks
is 16. At this time a good deal of anxiety was occasioned
by an outbreak of cholera in Egypt, fears having been
entertained lest the disease should extend to Europe and
to England : happily the event did not justify these fears.
The subject will be referred to again.
In the eighth period (29th-32nd weeks; July 15 to August
11), the deaths from diarrhoea further rose to 26, the mean