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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899: Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 — John Shaqi

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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899: Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899

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--------------+------------+--------------+-------+-------+-------
                |   Total    |  Diarrhœal   |       |       |
   WEEK ENDING  | diarrhœal  |diseases under| Mean  |Maximum|Minimum
                |  diseases. |  five yrs.   |  TF.  |  TF.  |  TF.
  --------------+------------+--------------+-------+-------+-------
  May 7th       |     10     |       8      | 52.4° |  72°  |  47°
  May 14th      |     20     |      17      | 55.5° |  71°  |  40°
  May 21st      |     14     |      12      | 63.3° |  86°  |  52°
  May 28th      |     22     |      19      | 60.9° |  70°  |  56°
  June 4th      |     18     |      16      | 65.8° |  76°  |  54°
  June 11th     |     26     |      20      | 71.6° |  86°  |  58°
  June 18th     |     36     |      32      | 73.0° |  89°  |  59°
  June 25th     |     74     |      69      | 69.3° |  94°  |  54°
  July 2d       |    170     |     164      | 78.6° |  94°  |  67°
  July 9th      |    399     |     382      | 77.4° | 100°  |  61°
  July 16th     |    330     |     321      | 71.1° |  91°  |  57°
  July 23d      |    388     |     356      | 77.4° |  91°  |  67°
  July 30th     |    380     |     353      | 78.5° |  95°  |  70°
  August 6th    |    380     |     353      | 78.8° |  92°  |  67°
  August 13th   |    342     |     306      | 73.9° |  90°  |  65°
  August 20th   |    290     |     261      | 74.8° |  89°  |  64°
  August 27th   |    268     |     246      | 76.6° |  93°  |  63°
  September 3d  |    289     |     256      | 79.0° |  93°  |  59°
  September 10th|    283     |     255      | 74.0° |  92°  |  58°
  September 17th|    179     |     158      | 67.3° |  85°  |  52°
  September 24th|    193     |     167      | 68.7° |  90°  |  52°
  October 1st   |    132     |     117      | 66.5° |  80°  |  54°
  October 8th   |     90     |      78      | 69.6° |  81°  |  53°
  October 15th  |     71     |      58      | 60.1° |  74°  |  49°
  October 22d   |     54     |      42      | 55.9° |  71°  |  44°
  October 29th  |     39     |      32      | 53.9° |  67°  |  41°
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Again, if we compare the temperature and mortality records for a
series of days instead of months, it will be noticed that the
mortality record follows the fluctuations of the heat record with as
much precision as effect follows cause. The summer heat generally
begins about the 20th of June and continues with varying intensity
until the 15th of September. Within that period we can select many
examples which strikingly illustrate the relations of temperature to
mortality. For example, the first heated term of the year before us
began on the 19th of June and lasted until the 26th of that month. The
two records are as follows:

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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899: Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899

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