Meteorology records and analysis of the observatory records for October 1865 in conjunction with those of births and deaths

Abstract

Meteorological records recorded at the Observatory, Hobart Town. Includes the leafing, flowering and fruiting of a few standard plants in the Royal Society's Gardens during the month of October, 1865. The weather generally during the month was favorable to health and life, and the mortality in consequence was below the October average of the previous eight years, and fell principally upon aged and otherwise enfeebled persons. In no month of any year since the purity of the air has been recorded by the ozonometric test, has the atmosphere ever before exhibited so large an amount of allotropised oxygen. Atmospheric pressure fluctuated but little; winds were more than usually moderate, and preponderated from healthy quarters. Shade temperature was below the average, while solar heat was above the mean. Daily ranges, however, were somewhat in excess; rain-fall was above the average, and electricity was abundant. The usual accompaniment of such weather, inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs, was not absent, but the effect on the mortuary returns is scarcely appreciable.