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constituents per gallon, in high find low water, at Battersea and
London Bridge respectively:—

These analyses show clearly that the river, in the spring
of 1860, was much fuller of fresh water than it was in the
spring of 1859; so that, quite independently of the hot dry
summer of 1859, and the wet cold summer of 1860, the river
was in a very different condition to become acted upon in the two
different years. During the months of July and August in 1859,
for eight consecutive weeks, the temperature of the river averaged
70 degrees, and that of the atmosphere 66 degrees, or five degrees
above the usual average.
In the spring of 1859, the Medical Officer of the Vestry,
in company with the Medical Inspector of the Burial Acts
Office, examined all the vaults of the Parish in which interments
had taken place. As the result of this examination, in all the
vaults, with one exception, the coffins have been buried in
earth and charcoal, and hermetically bricked in, so that at no
time can any nuisance possibly arise from them.