256 Weather of 1910 in Relation to Health. 



to the Scottish Meteorological Society. These are the Crichton 

 Royal Institution, the Eskdalemuir Observatory, Drumlanrig 

 Gardens, and Comlongon. My notes are compiled from these 

 reports; but I cannot enter here into any elaborate discussion 

 of the data they supply. It will be more convenient to detail 

 shortly the outstanding features of each month and give at the 

 same time the arithmetical means or averages of the more 

 important figures. 



January. — During this month the weather was generally of 

 a disturbed character, there being frequent barometric depres- 

 sions with high winds or gales. The temperature of the first 

 three weeks was moderate to mild, but towards the close deep 

 depressions from west and north-west produced rough and 

 bitterly cold weather with some heavy falls of snow. The 

 rainfall in Dumfries and the west of Scotland was comparatively 

 low, but slightly in excess throughout the rest of Scotland. The 

 mean barometric pressure reduced to 32 degs. F., but not to 

 sea-level, was 29.370 inches; the mean temperature 35.8 

 degs. F., the mean daily range of temperature 11.1 degs. F., 

 the humidity 92 per cent., and the rainfall 3.83 inches. The 

 average number of rainy days at the four' .stations was 20, and 

 there was a slight excess of winds from the south-west. The 

 deaths in the county landward and burghs of Annan, Sanquhar, 

 Lochmaben, Lockerbie, Moffat, and Langholm were 85, giving 

 a rate of 18.101 per 1000. The chief causes of death were the 

 circulatory diseases, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, 

 and pulmonary phthLsis, the death-rate from the latter being 1.5 

 per 1000'. The average death-rate of this month during the 

 ten previous years was 18.625, from which it can Lie calculated 

 that the number of " expected " deaths was 87, or two more than 

 the actual. The cases of infectious disease were very few, there 

 being only eight of diphtheria and four of scarlet fever. 



February was characterised by persistently unsettled atmos- 

 pheric conditions with frequent storms and floods, low barometric 

 pressure, average mean temperature and high rainfall, the 

 number of wet days being much in excess. The mean baro- 

 metric pressure reduced to 32 degs. F. was 29.115 inches, the 

 mean temperature 37.9 degs. F., the mean daily range 10.6 

 degs. F., the humidity 92 per cent., the rainfall 6.48 inches, 

 and the average number of wet days 27. There was an excess 



