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POLITICAL RESIDENCY FOR 1009. 59
landed from a British India ship. The patient died at the quarantine
station.
The rainfall during the year under report amounted to 6 inches and
66 cents, an increase of 5-74 as com
Rainfall and weathor.
pared with the figures for the last year
and 166 above the average of past years.
The maximum day temperature during the period was 111*6 in shade
recorded for June 7th, and the same month had the highest average tempera­
ture 101-6. The highest night temperature recorded was 99 0 on May 26th
and the average night temperature for the same month was 85-4. The tem­
perature began to fall in August, the highest maximum being 102-6 on 3rd and
the lowest minimum 76-2 on 20th. In September the temperature continued
to fall, and in December the lowest day temperature recorded was 74-9 on 28th
and 65-2 night temperature on the same date.
The hot weather was severer than that of the previous year.

R. E. HOLLAND,
Political Agent and His Britannic Majesty’s Consul,
Maskat.
Maskat ;
The 1st March 1910.

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