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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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| 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 lays on which Rain fell in appreciable quantity. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean of Daily Values. | Mean of Highest Temperatures. | Mean of Lowest Temperatures. | Mean Daily Range of Temp. | ||||
| 50.5° | 59.8° | 45.2° | 14.6° | 89 | 1.16 | ||
| „ „ 15th | 62.9° | 63.7° | 45.4° | 18.3° | 80 | 0.25 | 2 |
| „ „ 22nd | 51.2° | 60.9° | 44.8° | 16.1° | 84 | 0.54 | |
| „ „ 29th | 52.6° | 61.9° | 47.6° | 14.40 | 84 | 1.10 | 4 |
| Means. | 51.8° | 61.5° | 45.7° | 15.8° | 84 | Sum. 3.05 | Sum. 18 |
The highest day temperature, observed on May 26th, was 69.5°
The lowest night temperature, observed on May 5th, was 38.0°.
There were two large falls of rain, viz., 0.90 inch, in the night of
May 3rd, and all day on the 4th; and again 08.3 inch on the
night of May 27th, and all day on 28th.
Thunderstorms with hail on 19th, at 1 p.m.
Unusual gloom, with yellow fog, in forenoon of 22nd, a heavy cloud
appearing to hang over London all day.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
June 4th, 1869.