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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 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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(Extracted from the Annual Summary of the Registrar General.)
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 1904. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barometer. | Mean Pressure at 32° F. at Station Level1 (Bar. 159 ft. above M.S.L.) | 29778 | 29417 | 29.800 | 29.771 | 29.781 | 29.875 | 29.859 | 29.845 | 29.893 | 29 932 | 29.892 | 29.762 | 29.800 | ||
| Air Temperature. | Jean of | Minimum A | 33.8 | 34.5 | 33.7 | 40.7 | 45.4 | 48.6 | 55.2 | 51.8 | 46.9 | 43.6 | 36.7 | 35.6 | 42.2 | |
| 1 Maximum B | 43.7 | 44.4 | 47.3 | 57.7 | 62.0 | 68.4 | 77.3 | 73.0 | 64.7 | 57.5 | 47.5 | 44.9 | 57.4 | |||
| Mean of A. and B | 38.7 | 39.4 | 40.5 | 49.2 | 53.7 | 58.5 | 66.2 | 62.4 | 55.8 | 50.6 | 42.1 | 40.3 | 49.8 | |||
| Difference from Average † | +02 | -0.1 | —J.2 | + 2.0 | +0.6 | —0.9 | + 3.8 | +0.8 | -1.4 | +0.6 | —1.1 | +0.6 | +0.3 | |||
| Humidity | 90 | 84 | 86 | 74 | 78 | 72 | 71 | 73 | 81 | 90 | 89 | 90 | 82 | |||
| Earth Temperature at 3 ft. 2 in. depth | 42.2 | 42.0 | 41.5 | 45.9 | 50.6 | 56.4 | 62.0 | 63.2 | 59.0 | 54.6 | 49.7 | 44.7 | 51.0 | |||
| Bright Sunshine. | Total Possible Hours | 258 | 287 | 367 | 414 | 482 | 494 | 497 | 450 | 378 | 330 | 265 | 244 | 4,466 | ||
| Total Observed | 26.4 | 50.9 | 85.0 | 145.3 | 135.8 | 198.2 | 273.6 | 232.9 | 164.7 | 75.9 | 46.0 | 23.9 | 1,458.6 | |||
| Difference from Average f.. .. „ | —2.9 | —1.9 | —4.9 | + 7.9 | —46.0 | + 15.3 | +88.2 | +60.8 | + 30.0 | —8.7 | +3.4 | +1.1 | + 140.1 | |||
| Rain and other forms of Precipitation. | Number of Days | 16 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 23 | 155 | ||
| Total Fall Inches | 2.51 | 2.55 | 1.36 | 1.01 | 1.92 | 0.87 | 2.23 | 1.24 | 1.34 | 1.74 | 1.65 | 2.25 | 20.67 | |||
| Difference from Average† ,, | +0.52 | +1.07 | —o.1o | —0.65 | —0.08 | —1.15 | —0.24 | —1.ll | —0.91 | —1.07 | —0.62 | +0.48 | —3.86 | |||
* The hours of observation are 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., local time.
† The averages used are obtained from observations extending over 50 years for Rain and Temperature, and 16 years for Sunshine,