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Islington 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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houses under such circumstances. The occasional use of a disinfectant
to the closets and house drains when typhoid is prevalent is a wise
precaution for householders to adopt, and as crude carbolic acid is that
which we employ there would be an advantage if private persons
would make use of it also, in preference to other disinfectants. The
acid supplied to us by McDougall, Bros, is free from any objectionable
smell of sulphide of ammonium.
I must call attention to the fact that 1.15 inch of rain has fallen
here in the course of the month. The temperature has been above the
mean every week.
METEOROLOGY OF JULY.
| Thermometers 4 feet from ground. | Degree of Atmospheric Humidity, Saturation being represented by 100. | Rain in inches, read at 9 A.M., Collected on the ground. Sum. | Number of days on which Rain fell in appreciable quantity. Sum. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean of Daily. Values. | Mean of Highest Temperatures. | Mean of Lowest Temperatures. | Mean Daily Range of Temp. | ||||
| Week ending July 9th | 64.2° | 76.0° | 56.5° | 19.4° | 71 | 0.24 | 4 |
| „ „16th | 66.6° | 80.0° | 57.9° | 22.1° | 65 | 0.33 | 3 |
| „ „23rd | 68.8° | 83.4° | 59.0° | 24.40 | 62 | 0 | |
| „ „ 30th | 65.5° | 79.7° | 57.6° | 22.0° | 77 | 0.58 | 2 |
| Means. | 66.2° | 57.7° | 21.9° | 68 | Sum. 1.15 | Sum. 9 | |
| The highest day temperature, observed on July 22nd .was 92.5°. The lowest night temperature, observed on July 3rd was 49.3°. Thunderstorms on 16th, 26th, and 31st. | |||||||
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
August 6th, 1870.