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In districts that comprise the chief towns the mortality was, 

 26-39. In districts comprising small towns and country parishes, 

 20-10. 



The eleven divisions may be thus arranged in the order of 

 annual mortality : the deaths per 1000 were in the South-Eastem 

 counties 19, Eastern counties 20, South-Midland counties 20, South- 

 Western counties 20, North-Midland counties 21, West-Midland 

 counties 22, Monmouthshire and Wales 23, Northei-n counties 24, 

 Yorkshire 26, London 26, North- Western counties (Lancashire and 

 Cheshire) 29. 



The Black country, as it is called, about Wolverhampton, may be 

 cited amongst other proofs of the efficiency of hygienic measures. 

 The cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854 destroyed in five districts 

 more than 3000 lives, while in the year 1866 the mortality from 

 cholera has been inconsiderable. The water was formerly impure 

 and could only be obtained with difficulty in a country covered 

 with pits and works ; but good water having been brought from a 

 distance, the popidation is reaping the advantages of the change. 



METEOEOLOGY. 



Third Quarter {July, August, September). The mean temperature 

 of the air at Greenwich in the summer quarter was 58-9°, which 

 is 1-1° below the average of the season in twenty-five years. Each 

 of the three months, but particularly August, was cold. The rain- 

 fall measured 7-9 inches, half of which occurred in September, 

 when the amount exceeded the average by an inch and a half. The 

 weather, which had been warm and fine at the close of the previous 

 quarter, changed to cold at the beginning of July, and in every 

 part of the country rain fell almost daily. From the 9th to the 17th 

 was a period of heat, but from the 18th July to the 27th September 

 the temperature was almost constantly low. Eain fell frequently 

 all over the country in July, and in August seriously interrupted 

 harvest work. In September the atmospheric pressure was always 

 low, and in Guernsey and the west of England 8 or 9 inches of rain 

 fell ; near the east coast 3 inches ; about London 4 inches. In the 

 midland counties there were floods ; thousands of acres were under 

 water, and much damage was done. In the three visitations of 

 cholera in past years there was great atmospheric pressure, high 

 temperature, narrow diurnal range owing chiefly to high night 

 temperature, defect of rain, wind, and electricity; and in the last 

 of those (1854) a remarkable blue mist was observed which pre- 

 vailed night and day. In nearly all these particulars the meteoro- 



