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the total births. The rate of mortality under one year, in relation to
the total births, is 20.5 per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the
past Quarter 1009 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including
7 of small-pox, 8 of measles, 8 of scarlatina, 16 of hooping-cough,
15 of diarrhoea, 12 of fever, 28 of febricula, and 8 of erysipelas. In
the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the number of pauper
cases of illness was 904; including 16 of small-pox, 16 of measles,
8 of scarlatina, 19 of diarrhoea, 36 of febricula, 6 of fever, and 10 of
erysipelas. The total number of cases of illness in the Workhouse
has been 954; including 2 of small-pox, 1 of measles, 1 of hoopingcough,
14 of diarrhœa, 29 of fever, 9 of erysipelas, and 15 of febricula.
In addition to the above cases, there were 25 of syphilis and gonorrhoea;
thus making a total of 979.
Uncertified Deaths.
Six uncertified deaths are recorded during the Quarter; 3 in the
Spitalfields sub-District, 1 in the Whitechapel North sub-District,
1 in the Goodman's Fields sub-District, and 1 in the Aldgate subDistrict.
Meteorology of Greenwich.
The Returns of the Registrar-General show that the rain-fall in
the Metropolis during the Quarter, has been 7.52 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 12.54
inches. The average annual rain-fall at Greenwich in 63 years, was
25.4 inches. The mean temperature of the air was 44°.5. In the
corresponding Quarter of last year it was 43°7. The weather during
this Quarter has been unusually mild. On only twelve days has the
thermometer registered the temperature of the atmosphere as below
32°. The coldest days during the Quarter were Saturday, the 24th
December, Friday, the 23rd December, and Monday, the 17th
October, when the thermometer indicated respectively 21°6, 26°0, and
26°0. The coldest day during the corresponding Quarter of the
previous year was on the 2nd November, when the thermometer
indicated 25°0.
The lowest mean temperature during any week in the Quarter
was that which ended Saturday, 24th December, when the thermometer
indicated 31°7. In the corresponding Quarter of last year the
lowest mean temperature in any week was in that which ended
November 4th, when it was 31°2.