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of distilled water") nearly 101 tons. During the corresponding Quarter of
last year the rain-fall was 5.25 inches. The mean temperature of the
air was 60.9°. In the corresponding Quarter of last year it was 58.5°.
The hottest days during the Quarter were Thursday, the 18th July,
Friday, the 19th July, aud Monday, the 22ud July, when the thermometer
indicated respectively 84.4°, 84.6°, and 81.4°. The hottest
day during the corresponding Quarter of last year was on Monday, the
30th July, when the thermometer indicated 88.2°.
In the previous Quarterly Report of the Registrar-General, dated 1st Aug.,
1878, it is stated that "the measured rain-fall of the Quarter at Greenwich,
was no less than 13.2 inches, and exceeded the average amount in the
corresponding period of 63 years by 7.6 inches; 4.3 inches were measured
both in April and May, and 4.6 inches in June. So far back as 1815, there
is no record of so heavy a rain-fall as that measured last Quarter."
Mr. Glaisher reports that "on the 7th May, the rain-fall at Greenwich was
1.6 inches, of which one inch fell between 6 h. p.m. and 6 h. 50 min. p.m.
On the 23rd June, a second almost unprecedented local fall of rain occurred
in the London District, but it was chiefly confined to the north of London;
3.28 inches was measured as falling between 1 h. 32 min. p.m, and 3 h.
2 m. p.m."
Table of Weekly Mortality, &c., in London and in the
Whitechapel District.