Lectures on public health : delivered in the lecture-hall of the Royal Dublin Society . d in Islington,and the Report of the Scottish Registrar-General for 1868 con-tains the following passages from the pen of Dr. Stark :— The first advent of really warm weather, during the past year,greatly increased the deaths from measles and whooping-cough;but the continuance of the warm weather rapidly diminished themortality. When the cold easterly whids began to blow mMarch, the deaths from whoojiing-cough in the eight towns, whichnumbered 87 during February, increased in March to 155, butunder the infl
Lectures on public health : delivered in the lecture-hall of the Royal Dublin Society . d in Islington,and the Report of the Scottish Registrar-General for 1868 con-tains the following passages from the pen of Dr. Stark :— The first advent of really warm weather, during the past year,greatly increased the deaths from measles and whooping-cough;but the continuance of the warm weather rapidly diminished themortality. When the cold easterly whids began to blow mMarch, the deaths from whoojiing-cough in the eight towns, whichnumbered 87 during February, increased in March to 155, butunder the influence of the spring weather fell to 145 diuing April,and to 131 deaths during May. During the high temperature of Or ,<:^. / D I A G R A M V. Compiled from the Quarterly Eetunis of Deaths in the Dublin Registration District for the past 8 years, and fiom the Quarterly Returns of Deaths witliui the MunicipalBoundary of Duhlin for the year 1864, illustrative of the effect of certain Meteorological Conditions on tlie Death Curves from four principal Undemic and Epidemic Dr. Moore on Meteorology. 55 June, liowever, the deaths from whooping-cough rose to 165, thehighest they had been during any month of the year ; but insteadof increasing during the much warmer months of July and Augustthey rapidly fell, numbering 135 deaths in July, 121 in August,and 92 in September—the lowest number of deaths from whooping-cough during any month of the year. C.— Scarlatina, observes the Registrar-General of Eng-land,* discovers a uniform vf ell-marked tendency to increasein the last six months, and attain its maximum in the Decem-ber quarter, the earlier half of the following year witnessinga decrease. He illustrates this remark by a table, whichis appended, showing the deaths in London from Scarlatinaby quarters during four years. Table ly. —Deaths in London from Scarlatina. March June September December Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. Quarter. 1861,. 420 326 467 1,145 2,358 186
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