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METEOEOLOGICAL REPORT, 186!), 



SoLAE, Halos were seen at Sunderland on the 2nd, 8th, 10th, 

 11th, 18th, and 27th. 



Hail fell at Byrness on the 4th. 



Eainbow was seen at Sunderland on the 14th. 



Thunderstoems occurred at Rothbury on the 6th, 10th, and 

 14th. 



Lightning was seen, but Thunder was not heard, at Roth- 

 bury, on the 16th. 



Thunder was heard, but Lightning was not seen, at Byrness 

 on the 20th ; at Rothbury on the 15th and 26th ; at AUenheads 

 on the 15th; at Bywell on the 15th; at Horsley near Wylam 

 on the 7th and 14th; at Seaham on the i5th; at Middlesbro' 

 on the 15th. 



During the quarter ending the 80th of June the Registrar 

 General reports that the health of the country was good : a mild 

 April, followed by a cold May and June, did not act very un- 

 favourably on the public health. The deaths were below the 

 average of the season, and the improvement would no doubt 

 have been greater if the preceding March had been more genial, 

 for many bronchial affections which commenced then, terminated 

 fatally in the present quarter. 



The rate of mortality in the northern counties was twenty- 

 three per thousand. Scarlet fever was epidemic in some dis- 

 tricts of Durham. 



The death rates for the quarter in the chief towns in Durham 

 and Northumberland is shown in the following table. 





Estimated 

 Population. 



Deaths. 



Average Rate 

 to 1000 living 

 for 2ncl tliree 

 months, 1869. 



Newcastle (Borough boundaries) . . . 



130-503 



779 



23-96 



Sunderland (Municipal boundaries) 



111-520 



524 



18-85 



South Shields ditto 



65-363 



391 



23-99 



Gateshead ditto 



42-928 



250 



23-36 



Tyneniouth ditto 



40-003 



220 



22-06 



