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January 10th (mean temperature 27.5). june was the
hottest month (mean temperature 60.4). January was the
coldest month, (mean temperature 34T). May exhibited the
greatest range in temperature, viz., 49.6—from 80.5 to -30.9;
and November the smallest range, viz., 27.6—from 57.4 to
29.8. Rain fell on 178 days, the total amount registered in
the year being 25.05 inches, and 0 07 inches less than the
average of 76 years. Most rain fell in October (4.32 inches)
and least in February (0.05). The means of the readings of
the barometer were 29 787 inches; the means of February,
30282, and of October, 29.608, being the highest and lowest
respectively. The relative proportion of wind was. North. 92:
East, 77; South, 10, and West, 95.
VACCINATION.
Table X. (Appendix) is a return respecting vaccination
in 1890, compiled by Mr. Shattock, the Vaccination Officer,
whose energetic discharge of the duties of his appointment it
is always a pleasing duty to recognise. The return shews a
loss of 6.7 per cent, in the cases, against 5.4, 5.9, (6.0
and 6.5 respectively, in 1886-87-88-89, "from removal of children
to places, out of Parish, unknown, or which cannot be
reached, and cases not having been found." In England and
Wales, we were told a few years back on the authority of the
Medical Officer to the Local Government Board, 'that 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 : so that the infant population
was made up of "19 vaccinated to each unvaccinated
individual." I fear that the proportion of vaccinated children
is now somewhat smaller.
With regard to the protection against small-pox afforded
by vaccination—differing in degree as this does according as
the vaccination is more or less "successful "—it ought not