Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1900
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METEOROLOGY.
The following table, for which I am indebted to Mr. Marriott,
Secretary to the Royal Meteorological Society, is an abstract of the
Climatological Observations made at St. Luke's, Old Street, E.C.,
for the year 1900.
ABSTRACT OF CLIMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
1900. | Temperature. | Relative Humidity. | Amount of Cloud. | Rain. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Means. | Extremes. | Amount. | No. of Days | ||||||||
9 a.m. | Min. | Max. | Range | Mean. | Min. | Max. | |||||
º | º | º | º | º | º | º | % | in | |||
JANUARY | 411 | 37.3 | 45.5 | 8.2 | 41.4 | 29.8 | 53.4 | 87 | 8.9 | 2.70 | 22 |
FEBRUARY | 39.2 | 35.5 | 43.6 | 8.1 | 39.6 | 23.3 | 56.2 | 83 | 8.1 | 3.77 | 19 |
MARCH | 40.0 | 35.6 | 45.2 | 9.6 | 40.4 | 28.3 | 56.2 | 78 | 7.3 | .84 | 7 |
APRIL | 49.4 | 42.0 | 56.5 | 14.5 | 49.2 | 30.8 | 75.0 | 73 | 5.7 | .79 | 15 |
MAY | 53.8 | 47.1 | 60.5 | 13.4 | 53.8 | 37.4 | 71.0 | 67 | 7.1 | 1.05 | 12 |
JUNE | 61.6 | 53.8 | 69.0 | 15.2 | 61.4 | 47.1 | 86.2 | 70 | 7.3 | 1.94 | 12 |
JULY | 68.8 | 59.9 | 76.8 | 16.9 | 68.4 | 49.3 | 90.9 | 61 | 4.9 | 1.37 | 5 |
AUGUST | 63.4 | 56.4 | 69.7 | 13.3 | 63.0 | 51.3 | 81.2 | 68 | 6.3 | 2.47 | 16 |
SEPTEMB'R | 60.4 | 52.9 | 67.7 | 14.8 | 60.3 | 47.2 | 78.7 | 72 | 4.9 | .59 | 8 |
OCTOBER | 52.9 | 46.7 | 57.9 | 11.2 | 52.3 | 39.0 | 73.1 | 79 | 4.4 | 1.62 | 16 |
NOVEMBER | 47.2 | 43.7 | 50.9 | 7.2 | 47.3 | 32.4 | 60.8 | 86 | 8.0 | 1.63 | 17 |
DECEMBER | 46.3 | 42.7 | 50.3 | 7.6 | 46.5 | 31.8 | 56.4 | 88 | 8.5 | 2.39 | 19 |
YEAR | 52.0 | 46.1 | 57.8 | 11.7 | 52.0 | 23.3 | 90.9 | 76 | 6.8 | 21.16 | 168 |
I remain,
Yours faithfully,
J. KING WARRY, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., &c.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health received, and ordered to
be printed and circulated in the usual manner.
WALTER HORNCASTLE,
May, 1901. Mayor.