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ponding Quarter of the previous year the number of pauper cases of illness
was 695: including 4 of small-pox, 3 of measles, 1 of scarlatina, 1 of
hooping-cough, 43 of diarrhoea, 2 of choleraic diarrhoea, 15 of febricula, 3
of fever, and 2 of erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the
Workhouse has been 741; including 2 of measles, 3 of hooping-cough, 35
of diarrhoea, 6 of erysipelas, and 6 of febricula. In addition to the above
cases there were 41 of syphilis; thus making a total ot 782.
During this Quarter it appears from the return of Mr. Ilott, the
resident Medical Officer of the Workhouse, that no case of fever has been
admitted into the Infirmary.
Uncertified Deaths.
The uncertified deaths recorded during the Quarter were 9, viz.: 6 in
the Spitalfields sub-District, 2 in the Mile End New Town, and 1 in the
Aldgate sub-District. Of the 6 uncertified deaths in the Spitalfields subDistrict,
4 were sudden deaths, said to be from disease of the heart.
Meteorology of Greenwich.
The Returns of the Registrar-General show that the rain-fall in the
Metropolis, during the Quarter, has been 11.41 inches. During the corresponding
Quarter of last year the rain fall was 7.28 inches. The mean
temperature of the air was 58.2°. In the corresponding Quarter of last
year it was 60.9°. The hottest days during the Quarter were Wednesday,
the 30 th July, Friday, the 15th August, and Tuesday, the 29th July, when
the thermometer indicated respectively 80.6°, 79.7°, and 78.5°. The
hottest day during the corresponding Quarter of last year was Friday, the
19th July, when the thermometer indicated 84.6°.
The Registrar-General, in his last Quarterly return of marriages,
births, and deaths (page iv), states, that "at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, 11.75 inches were measured on 53 of the 92 days of the
Quarter, exceeding the average in 64 years by 4.4 inches; 3.7 inches
were measured in July, 5.2 inches in August, and 2.8 inches in September.
The rainfall exceeded the average in each month of the Quarter; the
excess was largest in August. The rainfall at Greenwich during the first
nine months of this year amounted to 29 inches, against 22.8 inches in
the corresponding period of last year, and exceeded the average in 64
years by 10.9 inches. The number of hours of bright sunshine measured
during the quarter at the Greenwich Observatory, was 354.9 against
441.4 in the corresponding periods of 1877 and 1878; the most marked
deficiency of sunshine occurred during July.