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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
Hackney 1886
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1886
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| Montiis | Mean Temperature | Difference from mean of 45 years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest | Lowest | Total | No of Days | |||
| 0.65 | ||||||
| Totals | ||||||
* The rain-guage is placed in a wall, and therefore registers less than it would do on the
ground, probably by 15 per cent.
The absolute temperature, and the rainfall observations
shown in the above table, are those taken by me in the
Richmond Road, but the mean temperatures are those of
Greenwich, as there are not any tables for Hackney for a
sufficient number of former years which can be used as a
standard of comparison. From observations I have taken the
mean temperature here is about three-ttnths (0.°3) of a degree
above that of Greenwich, so that the difference between the
means of the last 45 years, as shown in the table would represent
the same for Hackney fairly well. It will be seen, on
reference to the table, that the first four months of the year,
and especially February, were unusually cold, and also June