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The annual death-rate per 1,000 population for these weeks in
all London was 20.9 for the week ending January 8th; 226
for the week ending January 15th; 28.4 for the next week,
29.8 for the week ending January 28th, and 27.1 for the week
ending February 5th, when the temperature had increased. A rise
in the annual death-rate in Hackney occurred to nearly tho same
extent, viz. 8.6 per 1,000 population. In February cold weather
again prevailed, but to a much less extent, as the mean was
only 1.8 below the average of 40 years, whilst in March it was
not quite a degree above the average. The lowest temperature
recorded in Hackney during February was 28.0 degrees, and in
March 27.0. In April and June the temperature was slightly
in defect, but in May it was 1.5 degree above the average; the
unusually high temperatures of 82.8 having been recorded on
tho 31st, and 83.6 degrees and 82.4 degrees on June 1st and
2nd. In July the mean temperature was as much as 3.8 degrees
in excess, the following excessively high temperatures having
been recorded in Hackney, viz. 87'4 degrees on July 4th, 90 5
degrees on July 5th; 86.6 degrees on July 15th; 88.4 degrees
on the 18th, and 87.8 degrees on the 19th of this month.
Higher temperatures still were recorded at Greenwich, viz. 90
degrees on the 4th; 92.8 degrees on the 5th; 89.1 degrees on
the 14th; 97.1 degrees on the 15th; 90.2 degrees on the 18th,
and 88.0 on the 19th of July. At Camden Square the temperatures
were rather higher than at Hackney. The mean temperature
for the week ending 9th of July was 3.3 degrees in excess;
for that ending 16th, 6.9 in excess; for the 23rd, 3.3 in excess;
and for the 30th, 2.2 degrees below the average. The annual
death-rate per 1,000 population in all London was 21.6 for the
week ending July 9th; 24.7 for that ending July 16th; 26.5
for that ending July 23rd; 27.2 for that ending July 30th,
and declined to 23.4 for the first week in August, when it
had fallen to below the mean for the last week of July and
early in August. The increased death-rate was caused chiefly by
diarrhoea, as the following number of deaths from this cause show,
viz. 135 in the week ending July 9th, and 292, 449, 495 and