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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
St Pancras 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR LONDON, 1903.
Deduced from Observations at Greenwich, under the Superintendence of the Astronomer Royal.
| January. | February. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | August. | September. | October. | November. | December. | Year 1903. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barometer. | Mean Pressure at 32° F. at Station Level1 (Bar. 159 ft. above M.S.L.) | 29.814 | 29.966 | 29.681 | 23.709 | 29.714 | 29.857 | 29.765 | 29.700 | 29.853 | 29.488 | 29.872 | 29.581 | 29.750 | ||
| Air Temperature. | Mean of | (Minimum A | 36.8 | 39.3 | 38.7 | 36.7 | 44.3 | 47 .0 | 52.6 | 51.4 | 49.3 | 46.6 | 39.1 | 34.5 | 43.0 | |
| Maximum B | 44.6 | 50.7 | 53.4 | 52.0 | 630 | 61.6 | 71.5 | 69.2 | 66.0 | 58.7 | 49.8 | 42.0 | 57.1 | |||
| j Mean of A and B | 40.7 | 45.0 | 46.0 | 44.3 | 53.6 | 55.8 | 62.0 | 60.3 | 57.6 | 52.7 | 44.5 | 38.3 | 50.1 | |||
| Difference from Average + | 2.2 | + 5.5 | + 4.3 | -- 2.9 | + 0.5 | — 3.6 | - 0.4 | — 1.3 | + 0.4 | + 2.7 | + 1.3 | — 1.4 | + 0.6 | |||
| Humidity | 86 | 83 | 78 | 70 | 74 | 75 | 74 | 77 | S4 | 86 | 89 | 88 | 80 | |||
| Earth Temperature at 3 ft. 2 in. depth | 43.1 | 44.1 | 44.7 | 45.8 | 50.0 | 55 .4 | 61.0 | 60.5 | 59.1 | 56.1 | 50.4 | 44.8 | 51.3 | |||
| Bright Sunshine. | Total Possible Hours | 259 | 276 | 365 | 413 | 481 | 494 | 498 | 451 | 380 | 331 | 266 | 244 | 4,458 | ||
| Total Observed ,, | 57.2 | 73.3 | 132.6 | 125.9 | 182.9 | 187.9 | 184.1 | 188.0 | 169.3 | 84.3 | 35.4 | 21.4 | 1,445.3 | |||
| Difference from Average ,, | + 27.9 | + 20.5 | + 42.7 | — 8.5 | + 1.1 | + 5.0 | — 1.3 | + 15.9 | + 34.6 | — 0.3 | — 7.2 | — 3.6 | +126.8 | |||
| Rain and other rms of Precipitation. | Number of Days | 18 | 10 | 18 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 179 | |||
| Total Fall Inches | 2..13 | 1.37 | 2.20 | 1.85 | 1.95 | 6.07 | 5.29 | 4.82 | 2 24 | 4.44 | 1.93 | 1.27 | 35.54 | |||
| Difference from Average ,, | + 0.14 | — 0.11 | 0.74 | + 0.19 | — 0.05 | + 4.05 | + 2.80 | + 2.47 | — 0.01 | + 163 | — 0.34 | — 0.50 | + 11.01 | |||
* The hours of observation are 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., local time.
t The averages used are obtained from observations extending over 50 years for Rain and Temperature, and 16 years for Sunshine.