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the total births. The rate of mortality under one year, in relation to
the total births, is 16.3 per cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The Medical Officers of the Union have attended, during the past
Quarter, 1075 new cases of illness out of the Workhouse; including
6 of small-pox, 3 of measles, 24 of hooping-cough, 8 of diarrhæa, 9
of fever, 24 of febricula, and 7 of erysipelas. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the number of pauper cases of illness
was 1246; including 46 of small-pox, 85 of measles, 3 of scarlatina,
6 of diarrhæa, 17 of febricula, and 5 erysipelas. The total number
of cases of illness in the Workhouse has been 911; including 3 of
small-pox, 3 of measles, 6 of hooping-cough, 3 of diarrhoea, 5 of erysipelas,
and 9 of febricula. In addition to the above cases there were
41 of syphilis and gonorrhæa; thus making a total of 952.
Uncertified Deaths.
One uncertified death is recorded during the Quarter, and is
returned in the Aldgate sub-District.
Meteorology of Greenwich,
The Returns of the Registrar-General show that the rain-fall in
the Metropolis during the Quarter, has been 3.63 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 5.43
inches. The mean temperature of the air was 42.6 In the corresponding
Quarter of last year it was 37.4. The weather during this
Quarter has, like the previous one, been unusually mild. On only
16 days has the thermometer registered the temperature of the atmosphere
as below 32°. The coldest days during the Quarter were
Thursday, the 2nd February, Wednesday, the 25th January, and
Saturday, the 3rd February, when the thermometer indicated respectively
24°8, 25°4, and 25°7. The coldest day during the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year was on the 17th January, when the
thermometer indicated 12°7.
The lowest mean temperature during any week in the Quarter
was that which ended Saturday, 28th January, when the thermometer
indicated 34°2. In the corresponding Quarter of last year the lowest
mean temperature in any week was in that which ended January 22nd,
when it was 23°4.
The results of the meteorological observation are to be understood
as applying to the civil day, or from midnight to midnight.