State Agricultural Society. 



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boot and shoe shops, eighteen lawyers, twelve phj-sicians, and two 

 dentists. 



HEALTH REPORT. 



That San Diego possesses the most healthy climate in the world her 

 mortuary reports fully prove, while the tallies of temperature show 

 conclusively that it has the most equable climate in this or any other 

 country. Extremes of heat and cold are unknown, the temperature 

 never falling to freezing point, and the annual range being only about 

 forty-five degrees. The b weltering heats, so debilitating to invalids, 

 are avoided. The prevailing winds of Summer are from the west and 

 northwest, by which the heat is modified, the temperature at the one 

 o'clock and fifty five minutes P. M. observations ranging at about sev- 

 ent3 r to seventy live degrees, seldom reaching eighty degrees, and in 

 the four years the record has been kept, in only one instance has it 

 reached ninety degrees. 



During eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the rainfall was 12.99 

 inches, while the entire number of days on which rain fell was only thirty- 

 one. The rainy season usually commences in November and continues 

 until March, and during those five months in eighteen hundred and sev- 

 enty-three-four, the rainfall was 14.27 inches, and the days on which rain 

 fell forty, while the monthly mean of relative humidity for the same 

 time was from seventy-five to eighty. 



From the report of the observer of United States Signal Service for 

 the year eighteen hundred and seventy four, we make the following 

 extracts, carried up to the twentieth of December: 



Months. 



Barometer. 



cd 

 p 



Range. 





tr 1 

 o 



CD 



5 s 



CD 



Thermometer. 



CD 

 - 



3 



Range. 



p 



C 



3 



5 



$ 



o 



CD 



2? 

 p 



'O 



3 



o 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 



December 



t. • -SB9 



{ Yearly mean 



7 

 11 

 10 

 3 

 5 

 



Q 

 O 





 3 

 7 

 5 







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