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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
West Ham 1899
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899
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Meteorology.—Below I give a table extracted from the
Meteorological Returns from Greenwich Observatory, which may be
taken to represent the weather conditions prevailing in West Ham.
The salient features of the year were as follows The mean temperature
of the year was 50.6°, being 1.9° above the average of the last
128 years. The longest spell of hot weather occurred between the
middle of July and the end of August, when the mean temperature
continued considerably above the average of the past 50 years. The
month of November, too, was unusually warm. The hottest day was
August 15th, when the temperature rose to 90.0°, and the coldest day
was December 16th, when it fell to 19.3°.
Rain fell upon 140 days, the total rainfall being 22.28 inches.
The registered Sunshine for the whole year amounted to 1,701.5 hours,
being 2.87½ hours more than in 1898.
Meteorology during 1899.
| Week ending. | Temperature. | No. of Rainy Days. | Sum for week, in inches. | Sunshine, in hours. | Mean Barometric reading | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Mean for Week. | Departure from average of 50 years. | |||||
| Jan. 7 | 53.0 | 30.2 | 42.0 | + 3.7 | 4 | 0.24 | 5.6 | 29.604 |
| „ 14 | 54.5 | 36.2 | 45 0 | + 7.0 | 4 | 1 03 | 20.3 | 29.418 |
| „ 21 | 55.3 | 34.2 | 47.4 | + 9.0 | 7 | 1.00 | 3.3 | 29.515 |
| „ 28 | 53.0 | 29.3 | 38.2 | -0.6 | 1 | 0.08 | 35.8 | 29.928 |
| Feb. 4 | 43.7 | 21.9 | 35.5 | -4.3 | 2 | 0.18 | 7.4 | 29.594 |
| „ 11 | 63.9 | 33.8 | 47.4 | + 8.3 | 6 | 1.19 | 10.5 | 29.371 |
| „ 18 | 55.0 | 34.4 | 45"6 | + 6.3 | 5 | 0.72 | 22.0 | 29.560 |
| „ 25 | 52.8 | 28.0 | 40.7 | + 1.0 | 1 | 0.02 | 38.9 | 30.113 |
| Mar. 4 | 54.0 | 220 | 38.0 | -2.4 | 1 | 0.04 | 34.1 | 30.207 |
| „ 11 | 54.2 | 23.9 | 40.2 | -0.7 | 2 | 0.07 | 43.7 | 29.673 |
| „ 18 | 59.1 | 28.7 | 42.5 | + 1.2 | 0 | — | 19.7 | 30.247 |
| „ 25 | 47.0 | 20.3 | 32.2 | -9.6 | 3 | 0.11 | 31.3 | 29.723 |
| Apr. 1 | 64.1 | 38.0 | 50T | + 5.9 | 5 | 0.37 | 19.5 | 29.903 |
| „ 8 | 60.4 | 34.8 | 48.9 | + 2.9 | 5 | 0.49 | 25.3 | 29.731 |
| „ 15 | 61.3 | 33.3 | 43.9 | -2.0 | 6 | 1.27 | 21.9 | 29.312 |
| „ 22 | 61.1 | 30.7 | 43.4 | -4.7 | 2 | 0.43 | 26.5 | 29.847 |