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297 during the four succeeding weeks. In August the mean
temperature was minus 2.4 degrees; in September, minus 1.8
degree; in October, minus 4.8 degrees; in November, plus 5.3
degrees, and in December 0.1 degree. In the early part of
October the weather was singularly cold, the temperature having
been in defect 11 degrees on the 5th, and again on the 16th
the low temperature of 33.2 degrees, or only 1.2 degree above
freezing point, having been recorded at Hackney on the 6th;
31.6, or nearly half a degree below freezing point on the 16th;
the singularly low temperature of 28.4 degrees, or 3.6 degrees
below freezing point on the 17th, and 29.4 degrees or 2.6 below
freezing point on the 31st. It was the coldest October, with
one exception, during the present century, when a mean of
45.0 degrees was recorded in 1817 against 45.3 degrees in the
present year. Although, as before stated, two great floods on
the Marshes occurred during this year, the rainfall was not
anything unusual, the total registered at my house being 26.07
inches, and the two heaviest falls in 24 hours having been
only 1.02 inches and 1.19 respectively, which occurred in
August and October.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Yours obediently,
JOHN W. TRIPE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Ordered to be printed and circulated as usual.
MICHAEL YOUNG, Chairman.
April 26th, 1882.