The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-13 00:00:00

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

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THE QUARTERLY RETURNS OF BIRTHS,
MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Tbe Registry General has just issued this statistical
' and highly intorseting budget of information. It
emulate of some 75 pages of closely printed matter,
one mass of figures. Probably our readers would
hardly care to wade through it for tbematilves. and
therefore we will endeavour to take odi the =Ma for
their special delectation. For some vases, or another—
no doubt to this °trial reasoning a good one, although
ordinary minds may fail to see it—the returns of tho
marriages rotate to the quarter &apprised in January,
February. and Much, ; whil• birth and deaths ars
computed for the fullowiim quarter—April, May. sod
Juno.
To take the grand totals Bret, we are told in the
quarto, ending Juno 228,076 deltas were made nye
the United Kingdom branch of the world's Mays ;
while tho curtain fell up u the larebral, botesel, or
melodramatic career of 116,537 of its actom And
during dm quarter e..ding March 110.012 persons
voluntarily aubmittod to tbe marital handcuffs.
Is Ela“._ ten births wens &boor deaths below the
"NW- aieniegise rise and fall with this state of
trade, and by solos moult remouluLthe Registrar
Gotland Wive, at the OnOClalltoll that 711 Is the point
of lowyt depreeriou, and in 'so another maim= may
be expected. do take Wart ye spinsters.
Whooping cough has been at work, but it will be
welting:* to our Weymouth, Lyme. Bridport, Bourn.-
mouth, and Swansea, readers to learn the heath
of the priori seaside and intend watering plaees had
been ts..rafly satisiactoey.
Al= etedireote left oar aerie dialog the gamier
eadkai rm. tin mow Ike ix lb. degroPeadbli
looter et the perrises ppi,

The average prim of wheat per quarter during the
three mostbe ending June was fele. 3d., sad showed •
fu.ther slight dne from ther:o.. is the four
Imes Me quarters ; the average last quartet was
lower than litany quarter since ember 1.76. The
roam wholesale prices of beef and of mutton averaged
61.1. and Thel. per lb. ; the prices of beef and of mutton
show • further increase of • half-penny and of a
farthing per lb reepecthely, upon the prices in the
two preceding quseter•
The avenge number of paupers relieved in England
and Wales on the lad day of each week in the quarter
was 9132,360, of whom 151,730 received in-door and
630,611 out-door relief. Compared with the numbers
In the ••rr••P•sding quarter of 1877, the increase of
in-door paupers was Loss, and of out-cLor paupers
6,713.
The reeding, of the barometer were genenll7 below
the average throuIboqat the quarter, and showed the
greatest depression in May. The weather we. cold
and ungenial until 11th April, when • warm period
i set n and laded until 19th May. From 20th May
till 19th Jane the weather was again ; after the
latter day, high teinpergurm prevailed until the end
of the quarter, esperially on 34th, 25th, 26th and 27th
June.

- Ms number of hours of bright Funshine mesenred
during the quarter at the Greenwich Observatory was
500, against 486 in the corresponding quarter of lad
year. Jane was estacially sunless.
The 129,111 deaths 4 all ages included 29,586 of
infanta under one year of age, 66,940 of children and
adults aged between 1 and 60 years, and 32.033
persona aged upwar of 60 years.
Small-poz caudd 825 &ails in England and Wales
Last quarter, against 406 and 716 in the two preceding
quarter.. Of these 8...1 fatal cases, 686 °marred in
Loudon and its Outer Ring of suburbaa districts, and
hat um in the rest of England and
The I ollowing pima give evidence f the greatest
salubrity' the figures represent the annual rate of
mortality during the three months ending 30th Jun.
last :—Herne Bay 8 5, Worthing 123, Lowestoft 12'5,
Weymouth 129, Eastbourne 139, Margate 140.
Dover 141. Littlehanodon It 6, Folkestone 159, Yar-
mouth 135. Isle of Nffit 161, Southend 162. New
Brighton 167, Lyme Rash 171, Ilfracombe 171.
liomor 173, Dewliab and Teignosouth 171, Exmouth
180. liamagats and Broadstaire 181. The general
death-rate was also low in Torquay (IT'S), but in this
,b-district seven fatal mess of enteric fever and three
of scarlet fever wes• registered.
The m..rtelity for the quarter from 'even rymotic
diseases in the forty-az watering places was at the
, annual rate 1161 per 1000, and ranged from 015 in
' Weymouth to 803 in Penzance.
The deaths referred to different forms of violins,
daring last quarter were 4,239
During the three months ending June last 6,846
Inquest cams were registered, equal to 49 per cent, of
th! total
.deaths.

—ln workhouse establishment., hospitals, awl ratie
lunial=ear or 99 per met. at the
were hat quarter.