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Catalogue of J Forks on Gardening, fyc. 



1841. 



Average 

 of Barometer. 



Average 

 of Temperature. 



TEMPERATURE. 



Average Degree of 



Dryness at 1 o'clock 



each Day. 



Average Quantity 

 Water held in solu- 

 tion by the Atmo- 

 sphere, per cubic ft. 



a 



Mean 

 Maximum. 



S 



a 2 



cd g 















Grains. 



Inches. 



" The instruments are placed on a small table, near the centre of the garden, 

 fully exposed to the weather, without being sheltered or shaded by trees or 

 buildings. This table is about 3 ft. above the surface of the ground, and 

 quite level ; the rain-gauge, hygrometer, and evaporating basin, stand upon 

 it ; and the two register thermometers are suspended from the edge, on the 

 north side of the table, fully exposed to the air.; but, being a little below the 

 edge of the table, the rays of the sun are broken by it. 



" The hottest day for the year was the 29th of April, when the thermometer 

 reached 80°, and the 25th of May was nearly the same ; the coldest night 

 was on the 7th of January, viz. 12°. 



" The observations were made at seven o'clock every morning, when the 

 thermometers are adjusted, and the rain measured and booked for the day 

 before; that is to say, all the rain that falls between seven o'clock on Monday 

 morning and seven o'clock on Tuesday morning is booked for Monday ; 

 and the lowest point to which the minimum thermometer reached (as booked 

 on the seventh of January) probably actually happened early on the morning 

 of the eighth." 



Report to Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 

 from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition 

 of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, tvith Appendices. Presented 

 to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty, July, 184L 

 8vo, pp.457, with forty plates. London, 1842. 



This Report contains an immense mass of important information on the 

 state of the labouring population in almost every part of Great Britain, con- 

 densed and arranged, with great judgement, by the secretary of the Commission, 

 E. Chadwick, Esq. Every country gentleman, every clergyman, and especially 

 every magistrate, ought to possess a copy of this work ; some idea of the con- 

 tents of which may be formed from the following headings : — 



I. General Condition of the Residences of the labouring Classes, where 

 Disease is found to be the most prevalent. — II. Public Arrangements, external 

 to the Residences, by which the sanitary Condition of the labouring Population 

 is affected. Drainage. Town Drainage of Streets and Houses. Instances of 

 the Effects on the public Health of the Neglect of Town Drainage. Comparative 

 Mortality in two similar Towns, one drained, the other undrained. Street and 

 Road cleansing. Road Pavements. House cleansing, as connected with Street 

 cleansing and Sewerage. Supplies of Water. Sanitary Effect of Land Drainage. 

 — III. Circumstances chiefly in the internal Economy and bad Ventilation of 

 Places of Work ; Workmen's Lodging-houses, Dwellings, and the domestic 

 Habits affecting the Health of the labouring Classes. Bad Ventilation and 

 overcrowding private Houses. The Want of separate Apartments and over- 

 crowding of private Dwellings. Domestic Mismanagement a predisposing 

 Cause of Disease. — IV. Comparative Chances of Life in different Classes of the 

 Community. — V. Pecuniary Burdens created by the Neglect of sanitary Mea- 

 sures. — VI. Evidence of the Effects of preventive Measures in raising the 

 Standard of Health and the Chances of Life. Costs to Tenants and Owners of 

 the public Measures for Drainage, Cleansing, and the Supplies of Water, as com- 



