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Metropolitan Fever Hospitals during the same period, all of whom
recovered. All the rooms in which patients have suffered from small-pox,
which were reported to the sanitary officers, have been disinfected.
London Hospital.
Cases of illness in the London Hospital of persons belonging to this District.
By the courtesy of the House Committee of the London Hospital I
have been favoured with a return of all the patients belonging to this
District who have been admitted into the Hospital during the last two
quarters. The total number of Medical cases is 174. The cases of acute
rheumatism were 17; of fever 4; of erysipelas 2; of small-pox 2; of
ague 1; of Bright's disease 7; of lead poisoning 4; of bronchitis 12; of
pneumonia and pleuritis 15; of gout 2; of laryngitis 2; and of consumption
6. The number of cases of erysipelas admitted into the Hospital
among all the patients is 116; of these, 5 died. The number of cases of
erysipelas acquired in the Hospital was 20; of these 2 died. Nine deaths
occurred from pyaemia amongst all the patients.
Meteorology of Greenwich.
The returns of the Registrar-General show that the rain-fall in the
Metropolis, during the Quarter has been 8.35 inches. Of the 8.35 inches
of rain which fell during this Quarter 3.30 inches fell in the two weeks
ending January 13th, and in the last two weeks of March the rain-fall was
1.47 inches. One inch deep of rain-fall on an acre weighs (allowing 10-lbs.
to a gallon, which is the weight of a gallon of distilled water) nearly 101
tons. "During the corresponding Quarter of last year the rain-fall was 5.76
inches. The mean temperature of the air was 42.3, and in the corresponding
Quarter of last year it was 39.6. The coldest days during the Quarter
were Thursday, the 1st March, Wednesday, the 28th February, and
Tuesday, the 11th March, when the thermometer indicated respectively
23.5°, 24.7°, and 24.8°. The coldest day during the corresponding
Quarter of last year was on Wednesday, the 12th January, when the ther
mometer indicated 17.4°, or 14.6° below the freezing point. The mean weight
of a cubic foot of air for the year ended 31st December, 1876, was, according
to the Meteorological Table for London, 540 grains. It varied in the
several Quarters as follows:—In the first Quarter the mean weight was
552 grains; in the second 540; in the third 528; and in the fourth
541 grains. The Registrar-General, in his last Quarterly Report,
remarks that the "death-rate in the first Quarter of the year is mainly
dependent upon the temperature. During that Quarter the lowest recorded
temperature of the air fell below the freezing point of water on
twenty days; these twenty lowest readings showing an aggregate
of 70.2° of frost, and an average of 3.5° During the three months
of the severe winter of 1855 there were 56 frosty days, with an aggregate