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highest reading by day (85.9), was registered in the week
ended June 11th, and the lowest reading by night (17.6), in
the week ended December 31st. The mean of the highest
readings of the thermometer in the four quarters respectively
(53.4, 77.2, 75.7, and 56.1), was recorded in the weeks ended
April 2nd, July 2nd, August 27th and October 8th; and of
the lowest readings by night (24.7, 32.2, 44.5, and 22.8), in the
weeks ended February 20th, April 16th, September 10th,
and December 31st. The hottest week was that which
ended August 20th (mean temperature 63.9), and the coldest
week that which ended December 31st (mean temperature
28.2). August was the hottest month (mean temperature
61.7). January was the coldest month (mean temperature
36.5). May exhibited the greatest range in temperature, viz.,
56.4; from 85.1 to 38.7: and January the smallest range, viz.,
29.3; from 51.6 to 22.3. Rain fell on 170 days, the total
amount registered in the year being 22.32 inches, and 2.81
inches less than the average of 77 years. Most rain fell in
October (3.88 inches), and least in Jannary (0.38). The
means of the readings of the barometer were 29.773 inches;
the means of November 29'881, and of October 29.545, being
the highest and lowest, respectively. The relative proportion
of wind was, North, 95; East, 72; South, 95; and West 104.
VACCINATION.
Table X. (Appendix) is a return respecting vaccination
in 1891, 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 shows a
loss of 8 per-cent. on the total number of births, against 5/4,
5.9, 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7 in the preceding five years respectively,
" from removal of children to places, out of the 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 then Medical Officer of the Local
Government Board, " that the returns give evidence of about