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Hackney 1891
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1891
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and most efficient is moist heat, and certainly the Board should
have one of these placed in a more central part of the district, with
a properly devised and prepared place for keeping the infected
quite distinct from the disinfected articles. I do not mean to say
that these may get mixed, yet as there are not two sides to the
chamber it is possible to happen. I have repeatedly mentioned
this, but as the present apparatus is sufficient for the disinfection
of all the infected clothes we were required to treat, I have not
pressed the matter on the attention of the Board in the way
I should otherwise have done.
TABLE.
Hackney Table of Temperature and Rainfall for 1891.
| Months. | Absolute Temperature. | Range. | Mean Temperature. | Difference from mean of 9 years. | Rainfall. * | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Totals. | No.of Days | ||||
| o | o | o | o | o | Inches. | ||
| January | 52.5 | 18.8 | 33.6 | 34.3 | 1.62 | 14 | |
| February | 61.8 | 25.2 | 36.0 | 38.5 | 0.01 | 11 | |
| March | 58.0 | 20.0 | 32.0 | 40.4 | 1.82 | 14 | |
| April | 60.6 | 32.0 | 34.6 | 44.2 | 0.65 | 8 | |
| May | 82.6 | 32.6 | 58.0 | 50.3 | 2.66 | 19 | |
| June | 79.4 | 45.6 | 33.8 | 60.2 | 1.06 | 11 | |
| July | 82.2 | 47.8 | 34.4 | 58.8 | 3.40 | 16 | |
| August | 75.4 | 44.8 | 30.6 | 57.8 | 3.52 | 20 | |
| September | 82.8 | 44.8 | 38.0 | 57.6 | 1.19 | 16 | |
| October | 65.2 | 31.2 | 34.0 | 50.2 | 4.60 | 21 | |
| November | 58.0 | 30.8 | 27.2 | 41.8 | 1.98 | 18 | |
| December | 57.8 | 18.4 | 38.4 | 40.8 | 3.26 | 18 | |
| Means | 69.4 | 39.8 | 29.6 | 47.9 | Totals. | ||
| 25.83 | 176 | ||||||
* 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