1803.} CSI 
METEGROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Objervations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of February, to the 24th 
of March, 1803, inclufive, trvo miles N. W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer, 
Hicheft 30.15 March 13, Wind W. ‘| Higheft 620 March 23 and 24, Wind S.'E. 
Loweft 29.18 Mareh 3, Wind N. Lowelt 26° March 5, Wind W. 
In the evening of The thermometer 
the firt of March ftood at 48°. on the 
Greateft ) 53 hun- Ytheinercury ftood| Greateft morning of the 2d. of 
variation in » dredths «< at 29.70, and on] variation in 16° < March, and on the 
24 hours 5 ofan inch gthe tucceeding e- 24. hours next day, at the fame 
vening, it had fal- hour, it was at the 
‘len to 29.17. | freezing point. 
The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft report is equal to 712 inches of depth. 
The principal changes in the ftate of the atmolfphere during the laft month are noticed 
above. From the 25th to the 2d the temperature was remarkably mild, and the wind 
blew fteadily from the wet. On the 2d a heavy rain was tucceeded by a fharp northerly 
wind and a very fevere frof, thoagh the thermometer was not at any tune quite fo low as 
the freezing point. This froft, with fome intervals, continued to the 13th ; fince which the 
weather has been mild, and the laft five days very warm. 
A feries of cloudy and very gloomy weather lafted froin the 15th to the 19th ; on the 
night of the {9th the barometer fell a very little, it rofe again on the 20th and kept rifing 5 
but in the evening of that day there was (though the barometer was at nearly 30°,’ and in 
a rifing ftate) a confiderable tall of rain. _This has, as might be expected, been followed 
by a feries of very bright days. 
The mean height of the barometer for the whole month is 43.2; and that of the therme- 
meter is equal to 29°.786. On five days there has been rain, and on three others there 
have been falls of fnow. Ten days were very brilliant, and feven remarkable for thick 
clouds, the reft may be reckoned as fair. ; 
It has been afferted that the late unhealthy feafon is in confequence of the very arid ftate 
ef the atmofphere, and that the quantity of rain fallen during the laft three months is much 
lets than has been known for many years at this feafon. This ftatement is wholly inaccu- 
Tate ; the average quantity of rain from Chriftmas-day to Lady-day is even greater this 
year than the lef. 
{The following Communication reached us too late to appear in its proper Place.J 
erie *, To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
OUR Magazine may yet reach many places before the influenza; and there are two 
or three remarks, which may be of ule to perfons difpofed to neglect the complaint, or 
to treat themfelves. 
Suppofing the influenza contagious at all, of which there feems to be no room to doult, 
it would, at firft fight, appear the moft contagious of all difeafes. It certainly feizes more 
individuals than any other. But one principal reafyn I take to be this: no pains are taken 
to guard againf infeétion. Thofe who are not confined by the feverity of the attack, mix in 
Yeciety ; and the different individuals of a family affociate without precautions. In other 
inftances, the nature of the diforder keeps them apart, or precautions are taken in favour of 
the uninfected. 
The influenza may be defpifed by the robuft ; but itis formidable enough tothe puny and 
the infin. When it does not immediately deftroy, it may leave behind it fatal confequences. 
There will, I believe, be no difficulty in fecuring many of thofe who are in moft daager 
from its attacks. . Inthe firt place, all communication thould be cut off between thefe and 
the infected ; every thing ufed or worn by the latter immediately put inte water, and all the 
rules for preventing febrile infection regularly practifed. 
Fumigation with mineral acids will probably afford farther fecurity. Ihave been much 
furprized, at fading the accounts from Paris and London fo filent upon this article ; elpeci- 
ally as our parliamentary debates, the writings of M. Morveau and Dr. Odier, and other 
eminent men, and the returns of the phyficians deputed to the places vifited by the Spanih ’ 
epidemic, have of late fo forcibly drawn the attention of all Europe towards this mode of 
Seber 53 From the evidence it refults that various {pecies of contagion have been de- 
royed, in diferent countries and fituations, by acid fumes. They have, in truth, tueceeded 
wherever they have been employed. Some particular facts muft, I think, convince the mot 
fceptical of their efficacy. ‘thus in the report concerning the terrible malady that ravaged 
Andalufia, Dr. Cabanellas ftates, that in one quarter of Seville, he ordered the fumigation 
in feventy-feven houfes at once; that immediately the number of infected diminifhed, and 
ip a few days the contagion was totally extinguifhed. To have complete perfonal proof of 
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