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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
Islington 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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For more than a year and a half I have regularly suspended at the
entrance of the Vestry Hall a daily record of meteorological observations
of the temperature, atmospheric humidity, and rain-fall. I append to
this Report, and shall append to future Monthly Reports, the adopted
means for each week, as calculated from these observations. The
observations are made in my garden at Compton Terrace with instruments
certified at Greenwich.
METEOROLOGY OF JANUARY.
| Thermometers 4 feet from ground. | Degree of Atmospheric Humidity, Saturation being represented by 100. | Rain in inches, read at 9 A.m., Collected on the ground. | Number of days on which Rain fell in appreciable quantity. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean of Daily Values. | Mean of Highest Temperatures. | Mean of Lowest Temperatures. | Mean Daily Range of Temp. | ||||
| Week ending Jan. 9th. | 46.28° | 50.50° | 40.78° | 9.72° | 86 | 0.95 | 4 |
| ,, ,, 6th | 40.58° | 44.10° | 37.64° | 6.46° | 92 | 0.40 | 3 |
| ,, ,, 23rd | 36.71° | 39.92° | 33.28° | 6.64° | 91 | 0.08 | 1 |
| ,, ,, 30th | 40.60° | 45.92° | 35.28° | 10.64° | 83 | 1.04 | |
| Means. | 41.04° | 45.11° | 36.74° | 8.37° | 88 | Sum. 2.47 | Sum. 12 |
The highest day temperature, observed on January 5th, was 53.50°.
The lowest night temperature, observed on January 24th, was 25.70°.
Range of temperature during the month, 27.80 degrees.
Gale of wind with much rain on the 29th.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
February 8th, 1869.