Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1867; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1866.

  • Great Britain. General Register Office.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1867; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Report. It.) mortality may be almost said to be summarized in the influence of mean temperature, for every other atmospheric phenomenon is more or less connected with, or dependent on, the mean temperature,—or rather, the mean temperature is the conjunct result of all other atmospheric pheno- menon. The effect of temperature on the weekly mortality in the Eight Towns is shown in Table XII. In studying that Table, however, it is necessary to observe, that though a sudden fall of temperature manifests immediately its deleterious effects on the human frame, a day or two frequently elapses before the person dies or his death is registered ; consequently, if the fall of temperature occurs at the beginning of the week, the deaths registered during tlie week, in general, accurately express the effect of the fall of temperature, but if the fall occurs at the close of a week, we must look to the deaths registered during the following week to see the full effects of that depression of temperature. Thus, during the week ending 5th January, the lowest temperature occurred on the 5th, and consequently, though the mean temperature of the second week was nearly 5 degrees higher than that of the first week, the deaths registered were 641, whereas in the first week, ending on the 5th, they numbered 602. The coldest week during the year was that ending 19th January, the mean temperature of which was 27°*9 ; but, as the low temperature continued to its very close, it was the following week which registered the greatest number of deaths, viz. 705, the deaths registered during the third week having been 597. A week of mild mean temperature, viz. 43°*5, occurred on the week ending 2nd February, and the deaths fell to 562, having on the last week of January been 705, under the low mean temperature of 33°*8. The continuance of mild weather during the second, third, and fourth weeks of February, during the last of which the mean temperature was 45n*7, allowed the deaths to fall to 509. Four cold weeks occurred after this TABLE XII.—Deaths, Temperatures, and Fall of Rain, in the Eight Principal Towns of Scotland during each Week of the Year J 867. No. J of Week. Week ending Deaths. TEMPERATURE. Rain, in inches No. of Week. Week ending ] Deaths. Temperatuke. Ip Rain, in inches Mean. Highest Lowest. Mean. Highest ^ Lowest 1 January 5 602 O 29-6 O 51-0 O 10-2 0-520 27 % J uly G 484 O 547 O 74-0 O 35-0 0-269 2 12 041 34-2 470 19-8 1-278 28 13 456 G0-4 83-0 417 0-859 3 19 597 27-9 38-5 142 0761 29 20 485 56-8 08-0 43-0 2-067 4 26 705 33'8 498 15-2 1-759 30 27 454 51-2 04-0 41-0 1-888 5 February 2 597 43 5 56-0 33-0 1-702 31 August 3 4G4 50-5 72-0 441 0-015 6 9 605 40-1 59 0 23-0 1-218 32 10 409 57-5 09-0 45-5 0-879 7 10 502 43 3 '56-5 32-0 0768 33 17 441 CM 80-0 50-0 0-857 8 23 509 45-7 570 36-3 0-218 34 24 405 57-9 72-0 40-2 0-930 9 March 2 497 389 55-0 24-8 0140 35 31 411 58-2 72-0 43-0 0-935 10 9 535 38-7 53-0 28-5 0-379 36 September 7 427 558 70-0 44-2 1-297 11 10 576 33 1 49-0 20-6 0-380 ij 37 14 456 56-S os-o 42-0 0'84Sj 12 23 582 33-9 40-0 17-0 0-285 33 21 427 517 01-5 34-3 0-077! 13 30 612 43-1 57-0 33-0 0 721 39 28 403 52-8 63-0 41-0 03S4 14 April 6 556 47-3 63-0 321 0334 1 40 October 5 402 40-9 07-0 28-0 0-607 15 13 565 45-4 59-0 312 1-191 41 12 447 45-4 03-0 27-2 0 155 10 20 510 47-9 02-0 34-8 0-847 42 19 403 50-3 59-0 40-0 1-260 17 27 481 45-9 00-9 33-0 1-348 43 26 425 49-0 65-5 31-0 0-806 18 May 4 522 40-9 05 3 33-4 0-065 44 November 2 415 44-4 53-2 32-0 0751 19 11 508 51-8 700 39-0 0-905 45 9 471 44-2 50-0 28-0 0010 20 18 488 42-8 5S-0 320 0 859 46 16 431 42-5 527 27-0 0323 21 25 553 451 08-4 25-0 0-056 47 23 492 397 51-2 25-9 o-ooi 22 June 1 557 521 69 0 37-5 1-274 48 30 548 42-3 52-0 2SG 0-482 23 8 539 54-0 70-8 33-5 1-542 49 December 7 548 35'5 50-0 20-0 0-593 24 15 464 55'9 757 39 8 0-205 50 14 579 44-5 5G-0 32 3 0 622 25 22 466 547 74-0 41-4 0-220 51 21 51L 39-2 57-0 24-0 1-232 45-2
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