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5.33 inches. The number of rainy days was 15, and there 

 was an excess of winds from northerly and easterly .points. The 

 deaths were 65 and the rate 13.842. The circulatory death-rate 

 dropped to the same point as in March. The malignant disease 

 death-rate was high ; pneumonia was also fairly high, but the 

 phthisical and other tubercular rates were low, as was also the 

 respiratory. The average total death-rate of the month having 

 been 14.751, the " expected " deaths were 69, or four more than 

 the actual number. Among the infectious diseases scarlet fever 

 continued to increa.se, and diphtheria reappeared on the list. 



August. — The weather was much on the same lines as in 

 July, but rather worse, there being an almost entire absence of 

 seasonable warmth, a low barometer, and a high rainfall, 

 especially towards the end, when 2.10 inches fell at Dumfries 

 on the 28th, and great flooding occurred in various parts of 

 Scotland. The mean barometric pressure was 29.470 inches, 

 the mean temperature 56.7 degs. F., the mean daily range 14.0 

 degs. F., the humidity 85 per cent., and the rainfall 8.24 inches. 

 The average number of wet days was 22, and there was an excess 

 of winds from easterly points. The deaths being 46, the rate 

 was 9.796, the lowest rate of all the months of the year. There 

 was a very considerable reduction in the mortality from circula- 

 tory diseases, fatalities from these being at their minimum, but 

 the rates from nervous and digestive diseases were somewhat 

 high. Phthisis and other tubercular diseases, pneumonia and 

 other respiratory were all low. The average total death-rate 

 for the month was 13.564, and the " expected " deaths were 64, 

 or eighteen more than the actual number. Scarlet fever became 

 rather prevalent and more virulent than usual, the death-rate 

 from it being 1.06 per 1000. Cases of diphtheria again 

 occurred, but in very small numbers. 



September. — The barometric pressure being high through- 

 out this month, weather of the quietest character prevailed almost 

 without a break. There was, however, a lack of sunshine and a 

 prevalence of winds from northerly directions, so that the mean 

 temperature was low. The rainfall was also low, the month being 

 one of the driest Septembers on record. The mean barometric 

 pressure was 29.916 inches; the mean temperature, 52.4 deg. F. ; 

 the inean daily range, 16.3 deg. F. ; the humidity, 86 per cent. ; 

 the rainfall, 0.99 inches. The rainy days were 8 in number, and 



