FEARFUL MORTALITY DURING WINTER.
The Auckland Star’s London correspondent thus writes :—“ The weather has just begun to be tolerable. We have had a fearful winter, and there has been scarcely a day for the past six months that I have not longed for a breath of your balmy air. There is just the slightest sensation of green to be seen in the hedgerows, but the effects of the terrible easterly winds are painfully apparent still. On more th’an one occasion the obituary of the Times has occupied nearly a column. A fortnight ago the mortality for Loudon was at the rate of 27 per 1000, the temperature that week being 5.9 below the average of sixty years. At a famous pleasure resort in the South of England the mortality from bronchitis and similar complaints has been so great that if the same rate were kept for fifteen years, the place would be depopulated, and at Kensal Green cemetery the number of funerals during last month has exceeded that during the last cholera visitation Altogether, the loss of life this winter has been almost without parallel.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 279, 9 June 1875, Page 2
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185FEARFUL MORTALITY DURING WINTER. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 279, 9 June 1875, Page 2
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