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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
Willesden 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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TABLE NO. 71.—METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Taken at the Hospital, Dog Lane, Neasden. Readings at 9.0 a.m. daily.
Altitude of ground at Meteorological Station, 97.64 O.D. Altitude of Rim of Rain Gauge, 102.36 O. D.
| Month. | TEMPERATURE shewn in degrees Fahrenheit | Mean degree of Humidity. | Rainfall in inches. | Number of days on which Rain was measured. | Number of Hours of bright Sunshine. | No. of hours of blight Sunshine recorded at Greenwich. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| of the Air. | of the Earth at a depth of 4 feet. | |||||||||||
| Highest. | Lowest. | Range. | Mean of all Highest. | Mean of all Lowest. | ||||||||
| Max. | Min. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) |
| January | 55.0 | 17.0 | 38.0 | 46.34 | 35.21 | 48 .00 | 45.75 | 84° | 0.47 | 4 | 27.50 | 20.15 |
| February | 59.0 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 51.89 | 42.03 | 46.00 | 45.00 | 88° | 2.40 | 9 | 70.25 | 106.12 |
| March | 58.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 55.51 | 44.19 | 46.00 | 45.00 | 86° | 3.25 | 16 | 92.75 | 88 .04 |
| April | 73.5 | 41.0 | 32.5 | 63.15 | 50.94 | 47.25 | 45.00 | 78° | 0.70 | 5 | 216.00 | 231.90 |
| May | 81.0 | 32.0 | 49.0 | 62.92 | 43.28 | 50.00 | 47.75 | 75° | 1.30 | 4 | 199.00 | 208 .94 |
| June | 83.0 | 38.0 | 45.0 | 69.41 | 46.04 | 54.00 | 50.50 | 74° | 1.18 | 8 | 257.72 | 267 .00 |
| July | 91.1 | 42.0 | 49.0 | 72.85 | 54.66 | 57.00 | 54.00 | 76° | 1.41 | 12 | 168.80 | 178.87 |
| August | 90.0 | 43. | 47.0 | 73.70 | 51.66 | 57.00 | 56.50 | 84° | 0.73 | 5 | 162.50 | 184.14 |
| September | 81.5 | 30.0 | 51.5 | 68.71 | 45.85 | 57.50 | 57.00 | 81° | 0.77 | 5 | 173.00 | 204.00 |
| October | 67.5 | 30.0 | 37.5 | 59.41 | 43.15 | 57.00 | 54.00 | 90° | 1 .07 | 10 | 56.25 | 66.96 |
| November | 62.0 | 26.0 | 36.0 | 46.20 | 38.50 | 55.00 | 54.50 | 88° | 1.01 | 7 | 44.50 | 63.90 |
| December | 58.0 | 21.5 | 36.5 | 49.62 | 37.43 | 55.50 | 49.00 | 87° | 7.10 | 17 | 2875 | 39.99 |
| Means | 71.6 | 31.6 | 40.0 | 59.97 | 44.41 | 52.52 | 50.33 | 82° | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Totals | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 21.39 | 102 | 1497.02 | 1660.01 |