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have received the sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and
therefore I do not propose to offer criticism respecting them, but
through the courtesy of the respective "Clerks of the Works," I
have been able to inspect the works at various stages, and I would
strongly advise anyone interested in such matters to carefully
examine the very capital buildings erected at the south end of
Goulston Street, comprising, as they appear to do, many modern
applications of Sanitary Science. I shall watch with interest the
future mortality returns of these houses, feeling confident that they
will compare favourably with those returns appertaining to other
blocks of buildings not so well or so carefully constructed.
The mean weekly temperature of the air during the quarter was
440-o. The highest temperature recorded was 670.1 on September
28th, and the lowest was on the nth November,
when the thermometer fell to Fahrenheit.
Rain fell upon 43 days to an aggregate of 4.66
inches. The mean weekly reading of the barometer in inches was
29.14. The mean weekly average of registered bright sunshine was
8.12 hours.
Meteorology.
It would, perhaps, be as well to remind your Board that by the
new arrangement to which your Board accorded its sanction, the
present will be the last Quarterly Report which I shall have the
honour to produce ; but in lieu thereof, in furtherance of that arrangement,
I shall furnish every week a series of Tables, upon which may
be seen the more important statistics which refer to the health of the
District. Such a "health sheet" I have had inserted with this
Report. It will be seen that most of the information required for
the compilation of a Quarterly Report will here appear ; and, as usual,
I shall with these "health sheets" present my customary Fortnightly
Statements. By this means your Board will be an courant with
information up to date.