1895 - 96 .] Mr E. C. Mossman on Death-rate in Edinburgh. Ill 
has not been reproduced. The only pronounced feature is a great 
increase during the first week of the year, the mortality being 78 
as compared with 41 during the week preceding, and 49 in the 
second week of the year. 
Meteorology. 
The general climatic features during the seventeen years will be 
apparent from the tables appended, some of which are graphically 
shown in figs. 12 to 14. A detailed report on the meteorology 
of Edinburgh is deferred until the completion of a memoir dealing 
with the data deduced from observations which extend back to 
the year 1764. 
Death-rate from some Diseases in Edinburgh as compared with 
London. 
A comparison of a few diseases shows that great differences exist 
in the time of maximum and minimum fatality in Edinburgh as 
compared with London. Our information for the English me- 
tropolis is derived from Dr Buchan’s and Sir Arthur Mitchell’s classi- 
cal memoir (Jour. Scot. Met. Soc., vol. iv. p. 187), the years there 
discussed being the period 1845-74. Whether the results would 
have been different for the same seventeen years as those dealt 
with for Edinburgh we are unable to say. The following table shows 
the weeks of maximum and minimum fatality, with the percentage 
excess or defect of the values from the annual mean for the diseases 
which we have been able to compare : — 
Maximum. 
Minimum. 
Percentage Difference 
from Annual Mean. 
Maximum. 
Minimum. 
Bond. 
Edin. 
Diff. 
Bond. 
Edin. 
Diff. 
Bond. 
Edin. 
Bond. 
Edin. 
Deaths from all 
Causes, . 
Weeks. 
2 
Weeks. 
2 
0 
Weeks. 
24 
Weeks. 
33 
- 9 
+ 14 
+ 19 
-15 
-16 
Bronchitis, Pneu- 
monia, and Pleu- 
risy, .... 
Measles, . 
49 
49 
0 
33 
35 
- 2 
+ 59 
+ 54 
-50 
-49 
5 
14 
-9 
39 
35 
+ 4 
+ 43 
+ 62 
-32 
-72 
Whooping-Cough, 
15 
20 
-5 
38 
45 
- 7 
+ 43 
+ 65 
-44 
-63 
Scarlet Fever, 
44 
46 
-2 
14 
29 
-15 
+ 60 
+ 90 
-35 
-51 
Diarrhoea, 
31 
36 
-5 
13 
9 
+ 4 
+307 
+ 151 
-75 
-57 
Typhoid Fever, . 
I 
46 
49 
-3 
21 
30 
- 9 
+ 41 
+ 42 
-33 
-42 
