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APPENDIX, No. II.
Extract from a Meteorological Journal of King George’s Sound, Western Australia, for the year ending 30th April 1 832, by A. Collie, Esq., Colonial Surgeon.
| Mean Temperature. | No. of Days’ Rain in the Month. |
Total Quantity of Rain in the month by Pluviameter. | ||
| 8 A. M. | Sunset. | |||
| May, 1831 | 61 | 63 | 13 | 2.2015 |
| June | 56 | 58 | 18 | 6.4014 |
| July | 52 | 56 | 16 | 6.4453 |
| Aug. | 53 | 56 | 17 | 6.6268 |
| Sep. | 55 | 58 | 14 | 3.2403 |
| Oct. | 58 | 59 | 11 | 1.6721 |
| Nov. | 60 | 61 | 10 | |
| Dec. | 62 | 63 | 07 | 0.1295 |
| Jan., 1832 | 67 | 65 | 05 | 0.2652 |
| Feb. | 67 | 66 | 04 | 0.8841 |
| March | 65 | 66 | 13 | 0.3356 |
| April | 61 | 60 | 11 | 2.5383 |
APPENDIX, No. III.
MEDICAL REPORTS.
Extract from Dr. Wm. Milligan’s Report on the Diseases of Western Australia, for the Year ending 31 December, 1831. (Addressed to the Governor.)
The favourable opinion I have already expressed of the influence of this climate on European constitutions, and of the place as a residence for invalids from India, is strengthened by a further experience of two years.
I have met with several individuals here, who on leaving England were great sufferers from dyspepsia, and disorders of the digestive organs, generally from the nervous affections which so often accompany these—from hypochondria, from asthma, and from bronchial
