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40.3, and 17.3. The hottest weeks in the year were those which
ended July 10th and September 4th, (mean temperature,
66.5), and the coldest week that which ended March 13th
(mean temperature, 31.9). July was the hottest month, (mean
temperature, 63.0): and February the coldest (mean temperature,
36.7). May exhibited the greatest range in temperature, viz.,
49.8:— from 78.9 to 29.1 ; and February the smallest range, viz.,
27.2:— from 47.8 to 20.6. The dryness of the atmosphere, i.e.,
the difference between the dew-point temperature and air temperature,
was 5.7, or 0.6 below the average of 45 years. Rain
fell on 163 days, the total amount registered in the year being
24.21 inches, 1.85 less than the averages of 72 years. Most rain
lell in May (4.23 inches), and least in June (0.44). The means
of the readings of the barometer were 29.734 inches ; the means
of February 29.945, and of January, 29.475, being respectively
highest and lowest. The relative proportion of wind was : north,
67 ; east, 88 ; south, 100 ; and west, 110.
VACCINATION.
Table X. (Appendix) is a return respecting vaccination in
1885, compiled by Mr. Sliattock, the Vaccination officer, whose
energetic discharge of the duties of his appointment it is always a
pleasing duty to recognize. The return shows a loss of 4.6 percent.
in the cases, against 4.0 and 3.9 in the two preceding
years, . from removal of children to places out of parish unknown,
or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found..
In the Metropolis as a whole, the loss is somewhat greater
than in Kensington. In England and Wales, as we learn from
the annual report of Dr. George Buchanan, Medical Officer to
the Local Government Board, . the returns give evidence of about
95 per cent, of the infantile population having received the
benefits of vaccination within the first year . after their birth ; it
follows that the infant population is made up of .19 vaccinated
to each unvaccinated individual..
With regard to the protection against small-pox afforded by
vaccination—differing in degree as this does according as the