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The deaths from inflammatory diseases of the lungs were
unusually small during the first four months of the year, but
early in May they were somewhat in excess. Diarrhœa also
was not quite so fatal as usual, until the first week in July,
when a sudden rise took place, so that in the week ending July
12th there were 336 deaths registered, against an average of
221, the temperature for the week ending July 5th having been
5 degrees, and for that ending July 12th, 3 degrees above the
average. The number of deaths continued in excess during the
following weeks, viz., in the week ending July 19th it was
533, against an average of 291; in that ending July 26th,
466, against 314; and for August 2nd, 301, against 271, when,
in consequence of colder weather towards the end of July, it
osscillated with the temperature, but not to a very great extent,
up to the middle of October. Inflammatory diseases of the
lungs were also below the average during November and
December, and thus more than counterbalanced the excess from
diarrhœa.
As the work done in years past for carrying out the
"Regulations" are but little known to the present members of