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Stoke Newington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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The Shelter has been maintained during the year. The
Borough Council is under a statutory obligation to maintain this provision,
and in the event of an epidemic of certain diseases, it will
prove a most useful auxiliary means of checking the spread.
Meteorological observations taken during the year 1911, at Camden
Square (by H. S. Wallis, Esq.)
The observations have been reduced to mean values by Glaisher's Barometrical and Diurnal Range Tables, and the Hygrometrical results from the Sixth Edition of his Hygrometrical Tables.
| Month. | Temperature of Air. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Mean. | Mean Temperature of Air. | Rainfall. | Relative Humidity. Saturation. 100. | ||
| Of all Highest. | Of all Lowest. | ||||||
| January | o 52 | o 26 | o 424 | o 34.6 | o 38.5 | ins. 1.38 | % 90 |
| February | 56 | 21 | 46.7 | 35.2 | 410 | 1.48 | 83 |
| March | 62 | 29 | 49.2 | 36.4 | 42.8 | 1.73 | 87 |
| April | 68 | 26 | 561 | 39.7 | 47.9 | 1.80 | 78 |
| May | 82 | 38 | 69.2 | 47.9 | 58.6 | 1.80 | 76 |
| June | 88 | 42 | 71.8 | 52.2 | 62.0 | 2.69 | 75 |
| July | 93 | 49 | 81.7 | 56'9 | 69.3 | 1.17 | 64 |
| August | 97 | 48 | 80.8 | 57.9 | 69.4 | 0 49 | 73 |
| September | 92 | 39 | 73.0 | 50.0 | 61.5 | 1.31 | 79 |
| October | 63 | 29 | 58.1 | 43.9 | 51.0 | 3.12 | 90 |
| November | 59 | 28 | 49.9 | 39.3 | 44.6 | 3.62 | 87 |
| December | | 55 | 28 | 49.3 | 39.5 | 44.4 | 4.22 | 91 |