Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1908
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ABSTRACT OF CLIMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
The following table, for which I am indebted to W. Marriott, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Meteorological Society, is an abstract of the Climatological observations made at St. Luke's, Old Street, E.C., for the year 1908.
1908. | Temperature. | Relative Humidity. | Amount of Cloud. | Rain. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Means. | Extremes. | Amount. | No. of Days. | ||||||||
9 a.m. | Min. | Max. | Range | Mean. | Min. | Max. | |||||
o | o | o | o | o | o | o | % | in. | |||
January | 37.4 | 33.3 | 42.5 | 9.2 | 37.9 | 23.7 | 54.0 | 87 | 8.2 | 1.18 | 6 |
February | 42.0 | 38.3 | 47.7 | 9.4 | 43.0 | 31.6 | 53.5 | 85 | 7.3 | 1.47 | 13 |
March | 41.1 | 36.8 | 46.7 | 9.9 | 41.8 | 29.0 | 57.0 | 81 | 6.2 | 1.88 | 18 |
April | 45.0 | 39.1 | 51.3 | 12.2 | 45.2 | 30.6 | 62.0 | 78 | 61 | 2.11 | 17 |
May | 57.3 | 50.3 | 64.2 | 13.9 | 57.3 | 44.2 | 740 | 73 | 7.0 | 1.75 | 13 |
June | 60.4 | 53.4 | 68.9 | 15.5 | 61.2 | 43.6 | 80.2 | 71 | 6.2 | 1.16 | 6 |
July | 62.6 | 56.9 | 69.8 | 12.9 | 63.4 | 51.5 | 80.8 | 75 | 5.7 | 3.31 | 13 |
August | 60.4 | 55.1 | 67.4 | 12.3 | 61.3 | 48.9 | 79.4 | 76 | 7.1 | 2.48 | 14 |
September .. | 56.8 | 51.7 | 63.8 | 12.1 | 57.8 | 44.0 | 760 | 81 | 5.8 | 1.39 | 10 |
October | 53.5 | 49.7 | 61.7 | 12.0 | 55.7 | 34.1 | 76.0 | 89 | 7.3 | 1.86 | 8 |
November .. | 47.5 | 43.7 | 52.5 | 8.8 | 48.1 | 29.0 | 57.9 | 84 | 7.6 | .59 | 9 |
December .. | 41.2 | 37.9 | 44.6 | 6.7 | 41.3 | 19.6 | 52.8 | 85 | 9.2 | 1.68 | 15 |
Year | 50.4 | 45.5 | 56.8 | 11.3 | 51.2 | 19.6 | 80.8 | 80.4 | 7.0 | 20.86 | 142 |
I remain, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
J. KING.WARRY, m.d., d.p.h.,
Medical Officer of Health.