COLD WEATHER IN ENGLAND.
The cold in England during the late cold spell was highest at Ripon, where the thermometer touched zero ; but the effects of frost were most felt in Scotland, where the death rate in Glasgow rose to the extraordinary proportion of 61 per 1000, or as the local papers calculate, of 64, almost three the proper average for the year, which may be taken at 22. An immense fall of snow covered the north and east of Scotland on the night of Friday week, and the snow drifted into the cuttings to such a depth, that no less than three trains were lost in it as in South England a dog might be. In some cases passengers were exposed to the cold for twenty-four hours, and several persons have died from cold alone. In Paris, on the same night, the streets became so slippery, that locomotion was impossible either for man or beast, and groups of ladies in balldresses found refuge in stalls, omnibuses, or police stations, or where they could. " Bracing weather " may be delightful for skaters, bears, and Skye-terriers, but citizens, we think, would elect 64 degrees sovereign by plebiscite.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 243, 20 March 1875, Page 3
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195COLD WEATHER IN ENGLAND. Globe, Volume III, Issue 243, 20 March 1875, Page 3
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