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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
Whitechapel 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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T able Q —METEOROLOGICAL STATISTICS.
| No. of Hours of Registered Bright Sunshine. | Mean of Degree of Humidity (saturation represented by 100). | Mean Reading of Barometer (in inches). | Mean of Horizontal movement of Air (miles per hour). | Mean Temperature (Fahrenheit). | Rainfall (in inches). | Rain or Snow (Number of days fall). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich. | Lewes. | |||||||
| ist Quarter | 194.3 | 212.5 | 84.1 | 29.93 | 11.8 | 37°5 | 3.22 | 29 |
| 2nd ,, | 520.4 | 583.0 | 74.7 | 29.89 | 11.9 | 52°1 | 4.49 | 31 |
| 3rd 4th | 565.1 | 586.2 | 70.5 | 29.80 | 10.4 | 60°8 | 5.85 | 35 |
| 121.4 | 170.1 | 85.3 | 29.70 | 11.7 | 41°1 | 6.25 | 47 | |
| Total ok Mean | 1401.2 | 1551.8 | 78.6 | 29.83 | 11.4 | 47°8 | 19.81 | 142 |