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A chronological history of the weather and seasons, and of the prevailing diseases in Dublin. With the various periods, successions, and revolutions, during the space of forty years. With a comparative view of the difference of the Irish climate and diseases, and those of England and other countries / By John Rutty.

  • Rutty, John, 1698-1775.
Date:
1770
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A chronological history of the weather and seasons, and of the prevailing diseases in Dublin. With the various periods, successions, and revolutions, during the space of forty years. With a comparative view of the difference of the Irish climate and diseases, and those of England and other countries / By John Rutty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 I Xliv, TNT R O D U C T I O N. than’calm weather, as dilEpating the va-«_ pours which, by ftagnation, might prove ,an occafion of divers difeafes. Thus, upon’ a review of the bills of mortality kept in Dublin for forty years, it appears, that the number of perfons buried was remarkably the, greateft in' .dry years, and vice.verfa, v;g. ' A. D. Were buried. 2722 1723 , J724 1729 174.0 3023' 2963 291J 3 206 3304 - * • A , ' ' I - Now m all thefe yqars drought pre- Yalled-r indeed the fummer of 1724 was wet, blit yet otherwife fair weather pre¬ vailed, as it did in all the reft of thefe year's, ^ particularly and memorably in the years 1713 and i 740, the laft being the dry year fucceeding the great froft, and prefents. the greateft.number of alh .The years 1704, -v, J723, and 1740, were eminent for grekt' drought beyond moft or all others of late obfer-