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The reported deaths from different forms of violence were
equal to 2.7 per cent. of the deaths from all causes in Kensington,
the proportion in the Metropolis being 3 9 per cent,
and in England and Wales 3.3 per cent.
METEOROLOGY.
The mean temperature of the air at Greenwich, in 1889
was 48.8 Fahrenheit: 0.2 above the average of 118 years and
05 below the average of 48 years: the means in the four
quarters respectively were 38.2, 54.5, 58.9, and 43.5. The
highest reading by day (86.6) was registered in the week ended
August 3rd, and the lowest reading by night (18'7) in the week
ended March 9th. The highest mean weekly readings by day,
in the four quarters respectively, were 54.6, 77.2, 76.2, and
58.4, and of the lowest readings by night, 27.1, 37.4, 41.6, and
27'8. The hottest week was that which ended August 3rd
(mean temperature, 64.9), and the coldest week that which
ended January 5th (mean temperature, 31.8). June was the
hottest month (mean temperature, 61.4); and February the
coldest (mean temperature, 37.0). September exhibited the
greatest range in temperature, viz., 46.1:—from 81.8 to 35.7;
and October the smallest range, viz., 27.0:—from 61.9 to 34.9.
Rain fell on 159 days, the total amount registered in the year
being 23.29 inches, and 1.69 less than the average of 74 years.
Most rain fell in October (3.93 inches), and least in November
(078) The means of the readings of the barometer were 29.791
inches; the means of November, 30.043, and of October, 29 521,
being, respectively, highest and lowest. The relative proportion
of wind was: north, 93; east, 71; south, 111; and west, 90.
VACCINATION.
Table X (Appendix) is a return respecting vaccination in
1888, compiled by Mr. Shattock, the Vaccination Officer, whose
energetic discharge of the duties of his appointment it is always