THE HEAT IN EUROPE. 18 Oct 1898
THE HEAT IN EUROPE, (1898, October 18). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 – 1954), p. 6. Retrieved November 7, 2021, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/52542007?searchTerm=WEATHER%20IN%20SOUTH%20AUSTRALIA%20record%20heat%20for%20august#
The London correspondent of the Melbourne “Argus,” writing on the 28th of August, says :—
“Western Europe has been suffering from heat and drought. Though we cannot equal Australia in the production of these articles, they have been quite bad enough to cause great inconvenience and loss of life.
In London and in the south of England the temperature has for nearly a fortnight ranged from 78 deg. to 88 deg. and one day it reached nearly 90 deg. Owing to the humidity of our at-
mosphere this a more intolerable figure than a temperature of over 100 deg. in Victoria, and Englishmen have the further disadvantage in that they dress unsuitably. I do not remember any summer when we have had so many sun strokes reported as during the past ten days.
There have been scores of cases in the metropolis, and nearly a dozen have been fatal. The weather has been hotter, and the consequent fatalities have been more numerous in France than in England.
There were ten deaths from sunstroke in Paris in one day, and in the south of France over 400 cases not fatal in twenty-four hours.
The heat, too, has produced very dense fogs at sea. These were so bad that at the beginning of the week the traffic on the Channel was suspended. There were many collisions and disasters to shipping, though fortunately no great loss of life.
Owing to prolonged deficiency of rainfall the East London Water Company are again experi-
encing a serious shortage of water, and though the New River Company is supplementing the supply of the East London Company the East-end of the metropolis is only allowed about a quarter of its normal supply. All the rivers from which the London water companies draw their supplies are very low, but we are not so badly off as the Parisians, who have been compelled to fall back, for some quarters of Paris, upon the sewage polluted Seine and Marne.