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 1910
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ABSTRACT OF CLIMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
The following table, for which I am indebted to W. Marriott, Esq., 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 1910.
1910. | Temperature. | Relative Humidity. | Amount of Cloud. | Rain. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Means. | Extremes. | Amount | No. of Days. | ||||||||
9 a.m. | Min. | Max. | Range | Mean. | Min. | Max. | |||||
° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | % | in. | |||
January | 40.6 | 370 | 45.4 | 8.4 | 41.2 | 24.5 | 55.5 | 86 | 8.3 | 1.20 | 13 |
February | 43.1 | 39.2 | 47.7 | 8.5 | 43.5 | 33.3 | 54.9 | 85 | 8.1 | 2.08 | 20 |
March | 42.9 | 39.0 | 50.1 | 11.1 | 44.6 | 34.2 | 56.0 | 81 | 8.3 | .77 | 8 |
April | 47.5 | 42.2 | 54.3 | 12.1 | 48.3 | 34.8 | 64.0 | 73 | 7.7 | 1.99 | 16 |
May | 53.8 | 481 | 62.1 | 14.0 | 55.1 | 35.5 | 76.0 | 74 | 7.5 | 1.64 | 19 |
June | 60.4 | 55.4 | 68.0 | 12.6 | 61.7 | 49.5 | 78.9 | 74 | 7.2 | 1.93 | 13 |
July | 58.2 | 54.5 | 64.5 | 10.0 | 59.5 | 49.8 | 73.1 | 76 | 9.5 | 2.03 | 14 |
August | 61.1 | 56.7 | 67.4 | 10.7 | 62.1 | 53.0 | 74.0 | 77 | 8.5 | 1.50 | 15 |
September | 56.2 | 52.4 | 62.9 | 10.5 | 57.7 | 43.7 | 74.0 | 79 | 6.3 | .40 | 1 |
October | 53.5 | 50.8 | 59.0 | 8.2 | 54.9 | 44.3 | 70.7 | 85 | 9.5 | 1.47 | 12 |
November | 39.5 | 35.8 | 45.5 | 9.7 | 40.7 | 29.1 | 51.9 | 84 | 9.8 | 2.26 | 14 |
December | 45.8 | 42.5 | 49.0 | 6.5 | 45.8 | 31.2 | 54.8 | 87 | 9.6 | 2.29 | 16 |
Year | 50.2 | 46.1 | 56.3 | 10.2 | 51.2 | 24.5 | 78.9 | 80.1 | 84 | 19.62 | 162 |
I remain, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
J. KING-WARRY, m.d., d.p.h.,
Medical Officer of Health.