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Showing Daily and Monthly Mean of Barometer and Thermometer, Monthly Velocity of Wind, and amount of Rainfall, with the prevailing Direction of Wind, for the Month of March, 1874, for the City of Mobile.

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Means 30.094 30.042 30.08559.48 68.3261.4130.07963.3278.00.

Highest Barometer-30.354 at 9.00 P. M. of 24th.
Lowest Barometer-29.812 at 3.51 P. M. of 16th.

Highest Thermometer-82 deg. on the 22d.

Lowest Thermometer-43 deg. on the 13th, 14th, and 15th.
Total Rainfall-10.57 inches.

Prevailing Wind-South.

Total number of miles traveled-5,165.

Maximum velocity of Wind-24 miles, on 15th at 1.00 A. M.
Number of Cloudy Days-21.

Number of Rainy Days-15.

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Showing Daily and Monthly Mean of Barometer and Thermometer, Monthly Velocity of Wind, and amount of Rainfall, with the prevailing direction of Wind, for the month of January, 1874, for the city of Mobile.

January, 1874.

TELEGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS.

BAROMETER.

THERMOMETER.

LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.

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Means 30.238 30.17830.221||47.3258.64 52.61 30.21453.2972.95

Highest Barometer-30.747 at 10.00 A. M. on the 25th.

Lowest Barometer-29.888 at 2.00 P. M. on the 6th.

Highest Thermometer-71 deg. on the 4th.

Lowest Thermometer-31 deg. on the 15th.

Total Rainfall-2.48 inches.

Prevailing Wind-South.

Total number of miles traveled-4,430.

Maximum velocity of Wind-22 miles on the 24th.
Number of cloudy days-19.

Number of days on which rain fell-8.

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Jan...30.214 30.238 30.178 30.221 30.747 29.888.85953.29 47.2258.64 52.61 30.127 30.142 30.091 30.129 30.400 29.803.597 56.71 51.82 62.25 55.85 Feb Mar... 30.079 30.094 30.042 30.0g5 30.354 29.812.542 63.3259.4868.3261.41 April.. 30.063 30.075 30.024 30.061 30.352 29.576.77664.35 60.33 70.06 62.46 May..30.030 30.058 29.991 30.031 30.303 29.795.508 73.6568.09 80.74 71.54 June.. 30.037 30.053 29.997 30.038 30.198 29.814.38480.1576.9684.93 77.36 July..30.054 30.078 30.022 30.058 30.28729.839.448 80.7976.93 86.29 78.51 Aug. 30.017 30.042 29.981 30.016 30.147 29.843.304 83.83 79.29 89.90 82.03 Sept. 30.025 30.046 29.983 30.031 30.145 29.796.349 77.95 73.6683.50 76.46 30.128 30.159 30.085 30.132 30.339 29.899.440 67.4060.38 79.90 65.35 Oct Nov... 30.163 30.192 30.152 30.170 30.46729.760.707 60.2454.53 67.16 58.50 Dec..30.216 30.239 30.185 30.220 30.513 29.838.675 54.3049.2259.25 53.35 A. Ms 30.096 30.118 30.060 30.099 30.35429.805.549 67.99 63.1672.24 66.28 85.00 48.00 37.00 s.

NOTES AND REFLECTIONS.

NOTE A.-DIPHTHERIA.

Diphtheria seems to be on the increase generally throughout the United States. I hear much more frequently than I did a few years ago, of its prevalence in our Southern villages and country neighborhoods, and the mortuary tables of our principal cities, make it responsible for an annually increasing number of deaths. In Mobile, we have had more or less of it almost every year since the war, but never enough to make it properly epidemic. Here, also, the number of cases seems to be increasing. These considerations suggested to me the propriety of ascertaining, if possible, the number of cases which had occurred in the city during the year, together with the percentage of mortality, and its prevalence in relation to sexes, colors, ages, and localities. With the hope of eliciting the desired information, I made application by means of a circular note to the physicians of the city; but several of these failing to make any reply, the data which I have accumulated are too incomplete to warrant their publication. It may be stated, however, with tolerable confidence, that the disease was considerably more prevalent in the western portion of the city than in any other quarter; that the number of cases was somewhat greater among the whites than among the blacks, though not greater in proportion to the relative numbers of the two races in the population of the city; that the mortality was somewhere between fifteen and twenty per centum of the well-marked cases; and that a decided majority of all the cases for the year occurred in the months of October, November, and December.

Eighteen deaths from diphtheria are reported for the year; and nine from croup. It is contended by many physicians that croup is only a form of diphtheria. However this may

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