Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Meteorological Observations taken during the Year ended 31st
December, 1894, at Gas Works, New Barnet.
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. | Mean Temperature Air. | Rain. | Mean Degree of Humidity. Sat. 100. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Highest. | Lowest. | Mean. | No. of Days it Fell. | | Amount Collected. | ||||
of all Highest. | of all Lowest. | |||||||
January | 52.5 | 4.0 | 42.1 | 30.9 | 37.1 | 21 | 2.745 | 87 |
February | 56.9 | 16.5 | 47.1 | 32.6 | 40.5 | 15 | 1.892 | 86 |
March | 66.8 | 22.5 | 53.8 | 31.6 | 43.4 | 9 | 1.445 | 79 |
April | 71.1 | 27.5 | 59.5 | 35.4 | 48.2 | 13 | 2.095 | 84 |
May | 72.1 | 29.8 | 59.7 | 37.8 | 48.8 | 9 | 1.730 | 80 |
June | 81.6 | 39.0 | 66.9 | 45.9 | 56.7 | 11 | 1.860 | 78 |
July | 85.0 | 41.8 | 71.2 | 49.1 | 61.0 | 15 | 2.661 | 86 |
August | 79.9 | 39.0 | 67.6 | 48.6 | 58.5 | 15 | 3.215 | 80 |
September | 72.5 | 31.5 | 61.6 | 44.0 | 53.4 | 10 | 1.070 | 88 |
October | 63.0 | 26.1 | 56.1 | 41.4 | 40.2 | 18 | 3.774 | 90 |
November | 64.0 | 24.8 | 51.7 | 37.2 | 45.1 | 13 | 3.165 | 85 |
December | 51.5 | 25.2 | 45.7 | 35.1 | 41.1 | 15 | 2.235 | 85 |
Notes upon Sanitary Work performed during the Year.
Nuisances.—During the year 1894, 460 inspections were
made for "nuisances," and 471 insanitary conditions were dealt
with. Of this number only 115 inspections were the result of
complaints by householders—and if one subtracted from this
number those complaints that were lodged against nuisances
alleged to exist on other people's premises—many of which
complaints were not actuated by pure concern for health—a
much smaller number would remain. It is a pity that so few
direct complaints are made. It is a common experience on
visiting a house to be told of defects which are obviously
recognised by the tenants to be injurious or dangerous to
health, and yet such defects are not, when other steps fail,
brought before the notice of the Sanitary Authority. It is not
difficult to ascribe, in some cases, some motive for this
reticence, but is a pity that householders do not more generally
appreciate the fact that it is both prudent and economical to