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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
Croydon 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE XIII.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD—YEAR 1908.
Rain Gauge 5-in. in diameter, 1-ft. above ground, 146-ft. above sea level. Temperature taken in the shade of a Stevenson's Screen, 4-ft. from the ground. The Ground Thermometer is suspended in an iron tube, the
bulb being 4-ft. below the level of the ground.
| Months | Temperature of Air during the Month. | Mean Temperature of Air. | Difference from average 50 years at Greenwich. | Mean Temperature of Ground at 4-ft. | Mean Temperature of the Dew Point. | Mean Tensional Difference between Ground and Dew Point at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. | Rainfall. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest. | Mean of | No. of Days on which Rain fell. | Amount collected in Inches. | Difference from average 85 years at Greenwich | |||||||
| All Highest. | All Lowest. | |||||||||||
| in. | in. | |||||||||||
| January | 54° | 17° | 41°.9 | 31°.5 | 36°.7 | - 1°.8 | 41°.0 | 34°.4 | 0.058 | 8 | 1.58 | - 0.23 |
| February | 54° | 28° | 48°.1 | 35°.3 | 41°.7 | + 2°.2 | 41°.0 | 38°.7 | .022 | 13 | 1.12 | — .41 |
| March | 58° | 24° | 47°.1 | 34°.7 | 40°.9 | — 0°.8 | 41°.4 | 36°.4 | .046 | 19 | 2.97 | + 1.46 |
| April | 61° | 28° | 51°.8 | 37°.7 | 44°.7 | — 2°.5 | 43°.7 | 38°.2 | .054 | 15 | 2.57 | + .97 |
| May | 76° | 40° | 64°.5 | 47°.9 | 56°.2 | + 3°.1 | 49°.5 | 51°.1 | + .020 | 15 | 2.04 | + .09 |
| June | 84° | 40° | 70°.9 | 50°.7 | 60°.8 | + 1°.4 | 55°.4 | 52°.8 | .039 | 5 | 1.99 | + .03 |
| July | 87° | 48° | 71°.2 | 53°.7 | 62°.4 | — 0°.1 | 58°.0 | 56°.1 | .031 | 12 | 3.24 | + .79 |
| August | 82° | 43° | 68°.3 | 52°.0 | 60°.1 | —1°.5 | 58°.3 | 53°.4 | .078 | 15 | 3.25 | + .93 |
| September | 79° | 36° | 64°.1 | 49°.0 | 56°.5 | — 0°.7 | 51°.8 | 51°.9 | + .001 | 11 | 1.33 | — .91 |
| October | 79° | 33° | 62°.1 | 47°.0 | 54°.5 | + 4°.5 | 54°.1 | 52°.5 | .023 | 15 | 2.36 | — .35 |
| November | 60° | 23° | 51°.8 | 40°.8 | 46°.3 | + 3°.1 | 49°.5 | 43°.7 | .072 | 11 | .69 | — 1.59 |
| December | 53° | 8° | 42°.3 | 35°.2 | 38°.7 | — 1°.0 | 46°.8 | 37°.7 | 0.095 | 18 | 2.40 | + .44 |
| Means and Totals for the Year. | 87° | 8° | 57°.0 | 43°.0 | 50°.0 | + 0°.5 | 49°.2 | 45°.5 | 0.046 | 157 | 25.54 | |
The Rainfall for the Year was 023 of an inch below, and the number of days on which rain fell 3 below the average of 40
years at Croydon. GEO. CORDEN, F.R. Met. Soc.
Croydon.