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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1889
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1889
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and appliances. These figures show the necessity for an active
supervision of houses occupied by the well-to-do as well as by the
poor, even although no complaint had been made to your
officers.
TABLE
| Months. | Absolute Temperature. | Range. | Mean Temperature. | Difference from mean of 46 years. | Rainfall. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Totals. | No. of Days | ||||
| º | º | º | º | º | Inches. 0.65 | ||
| January | 57.2 | 24.0 | 33.2 | 37.1 | 1.3 | 0.65 | 12 |
| February | 58.4 | 21.4 | 37.0 | 37.0 | —2.4 | 1.75 | 17 |
| March | 60.6 | 21.8 | 38.8 | 40.6 | —0.9 | 1 .37 | 16 |
| April | 64.6 | 34.2 | 30.4 | 45.7 | —1.2 | 1.92 | 20 |
| May | 81.2 | 44.2 | 37.0 | 56.5 | +4.0 | 3.44 | 14 |
| June | 84.6 | 45.0 | 39.0 | 61.4 | +2.0 | 1.71 | 8 |
| July | 80.5 | 48.6 | 31.9 | 61.0 | —1.2 | 3.67 | 18 |
| August | 83.8 | 47.6 | 36.2 | 60.0 | —1.4 | 1.67 | 16 |
| September | 80.0 | 36.2 | 34.8 | 55.8 | —1.2 | 1.75 | 10 |
| October | 61.0 | 36.4 | 24.6 | 48.6 | —1.2 | 3.61 | 22 |
| November | 60.0 | 30.4 | 29.6 | 44.3 | +0.8 | 0.64 | 21 |
| December | 54.4 | 24.0 | 30.4 | 37.6 | —2.2 | 1.23 | 15 |
| Means. | 68.8 | 34.4 | 33.6 | 48.8 | —0.5 | Total | |
| *23.41in | 189 | ||||||
* The rain-gauge is placed on a wall, and therefore registers less than it would do on
the ground, probably by 8 per cent., although it is well exposed.
Meteorology.—The chief characteristics of the year were
frequent rain without many very heavy falls, and a low temperature
during nine months of the year. In January the mean
was—1.3, the highest temperature reached having been
deg., the lowest 24'0 deg., and the rainfall 0.65 inch, which
fell on 12 days. The mean temperature was lower than in