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 Shoreditch]
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TABLE III.
Shewing the Weekly Meteorological Phenomena, and the total Deaths in Shoreditch and all London; the deaths from Epidemics in Shoreditch and all London, and the proportions borne by Shoreditch.
Week Ending | Average Temperature. | Barometer. | Difference between Dew-point Temperature and Air-Temperature. | WIND. | Rain in Inches. | TOTAL DEATHS | Proportion of deaths from all causes in Shoreditch to all London. | DEATHS FROM EPIDEMICS | Proportion ot Deaths from Epidemics in Shoreditch to all London. | |||
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General Direction. | Amount of Horizontal Movement. | in Shoreditch. | in all London. | in Shoreditch. | in all London. | |||||||
April 5 | 46.4° | in. 29.766 | 10.5 | 1195 | 0.09 | 51 | 1284 | 1/25 | 10 | 193 | 1/19 | |
„ 12 | 47.1 | 29.272 | 5.6 | 1480 | 0.57 | 61 | 1115 | 9 | 201 | |||
„ 19 | 46.0 | 29.856 | 8.7 | 750 | 0.17 | 45 | 1043 | 16 | 176 | |||
„ 26 | 48.5 | 29.775 | 9.9 | 360 | 0.27 | 47 | 1048 | 7 | 151 | 1/22 | ||
May 3 | 41.3 | 29.564 | 6.2 | 750 | 0.75 | 46 | 1087 | 6 | 173 | 1/28 | ||
„ 10 | 44.3 | 29.795 | 7.4 | 1220 | 0.33 | 59 | 1154 | 11 | 184 | |||
„ 17 | 51.2 | 29.493 | 5.6 | 960 | 1.24 | 45 | 1094 | 13 | 209 | 1/12 | ||
„ 24 | 53.1 | 29.564 | 7.3 | 1130 | 1.08 | 55 | 1041 | 16 | 193 | |||
„ 31 | 53.3 | 29.691 | 5.9 | 840 | 0.97 | 44 | 1027 | 14 | 185 | |||
June 7 | 56.7 | 29.902 | 10.2 | 530 | 0.00 | 48 | 1068 | 22 | 205 | |||
„ 14 | 59.1 | 29.829 | 7.1 | 895 | 0.53 | 39 | 1027 | 11 | 289 | |||
„ 21 | 55.6 | 29.734 | 6.1 | 490 | 1.21 | 41 | 963 | 10 | 200 | |||
„ 28 | 63.4 | 29.999 | 6.4 | variable. | 340 | 0.00 | 48 | 1118 | 13 | 270 | ||
Total | 629 | 14069 | 158 | 2629 | ||||||||
7 | 12 |