NOTES ON THE CHOLERA SEASONS OF 1832-4. 



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These tables give a comparative view to every tenth degree of the 

 temperature at 8 a. m., in the cholera years of 1832 and 1834. 



January, 1834, was a month of low temperature, the mercury at 

 8 a. m. being only once above the freezing point at 8 a. m. Max. 41** 

 min. -2. 



February. A mild month. On the 22nd a storm of thunder and 

 lightning, ther. 42^, succeeded by flurries of snow, and ther. 18°. 



March. High temperature. Bay of Toronto free from ice on the 

 14th, nearly a month earlier than usual, On the 19th and 20th heavy 

 rain and gale, thermometer 48°. Fall of rain, 1.21, succeeded by 

 cold, clear weather, snow, and ther. 18'^. 



April. A month of high temperature, therm. 61^ on the 13th at 

 noon, 66° on the 16th, high range. One thunder storm. Cold and 

 variable towards end. 



In May there was snow on the 13th, therm. 33^. Four days of 

 thunder. Cold and variable first half of the month, and the highest 

 temperature 72^ at 8 a. m. on the 24th. 



June. A cool month, therm, only once above 70°, viz., 77^ noon of 

 the 9th. Considerable fall of rain. 



The remembrance of the desolating scourge had in a great measure 

 faded from the minds of many when the afilicting news arrived, that 

 the cholera was once more amongst us. Not a few indulged a too 

 confident hope that the plague was stayed for ever, and even in the 

 height of its fury, it seemed to lull for a while, like the hurricane, 

 only to burst forth again with redoubled violence. It was imagined 

 that the disease was of a milder type at this its second arrival, and 

 one thing is certain, that it did not inspire that dread and consterna- 



