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in the groups from twenty to forty-five degrees, conditions which are 

 not generally considered most agreeable and within which are found the 

 monthly means for the colder months of the year. 



These results, however, are corroborative of the findings for the 

 study of monthly occurrence which show deficiencies for those 

 months. The excesses for extreme conditions of heat and cold are per- 

 haps only what might be expected. In the thickly populated tenements 

 of the city great heat becomes so oppressive as hardly to be endured, and 

 at the other extreme of temperature, when the mercury of the ther- 



BAROMETER. 



Fig. 4 



mometer is only in the bulb, both personal misery and a feeling of sym- 

 pathy for a dependent family might prompt one to self-destruction as 

 the last resource. 



This curve does not differ materially from that of the Assault and 

 Battery,* except that in the latter it is shown that for the highest tem- 

 perature ever experienced those misdemeanors, as recorded by the 

 police, show deficiencies. For them the numbers increase regularly up 



* See 'Conduct and the Weather,' Monograph Supplement No. 10, 'The Psycho- 

 logical Review.' 



