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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
City of London 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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TABLE HI — Sulphur measurement — by the volumetric and lead peroxide methods.
The concentration of sulphur recorded in 1965 was less than that recorded in 1964 and is
less than the average concentration for the past five years at Bishopsgate and Snow Hill but
slightly more at Cloak Lane.
TABLE I — Results obtained in 1965 of the monthly observations of rainfall and deposited matter by means of the deposit gauges.
| MONTH | Rainfall collected in deposit gauge | DEPOSITS | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equivalent to | Insoluble | Soluble | Total | |||||||
| Millimetres | inches of rain | Millimetres | inches of rain | Tons per squnre mile | ||||||
| STATIONS (see note below) | ||||||||||
| A | B | A | B | A | B | A | B | |||
| January | 45 | 1.76 | 50 | 1.98 | 14.54 | 14.28 | 8.98 | 10.57 | 23.52 | 24.85 |
| February | 10 | 0.40 | 11 | 0.43 | 8.21 | 15.13 | 5.70 | 7.65 | 13.91 | 22.77 |
| March | 39 | 1.55 | 43 | 1.68 | 15.47 | 33.11 | 9.54 | 15.50 | 25.01 | 48.61 |
| April | 47 | 1.86 | 45 | 1.76 | 37.16 | 33.75 | 7.85 | 14.62 | 45.01 | 48.37 |
| May | 39 | 1.55 | 45 | 1.77 | 14.31 | 16.89 | 5.90 | 8.06 | 20.20 | 24.95 |
| June | 39 | 1.53 | 45 | 1.77 | 12.92 | 12.58 | 7.15 | 7.61 | 20.07 | 20.19 |
| July | — | — | 67 | 2.64 | — | 16.28 | — | 10.13 | — | 26.41 |
| August | — | — | 49 | 1.93 | — | 16.86 | _ | 6.73 | — | 23.59 |
| September | — | — | 116 | 4.56 | — | 14.68 | _ | 9.93 | — | 24.61 |
| October | — | — | 17 | 0.66 | — | 19.03 | — | 7.72 | — | 26.75 |
| November | — | — | 66 | 2.60 | — | 19.75 | — | 11.73 | — | 31.47 |
| December | — | — | 93 | 3.65 | — | 15.94 | — | 9.25 | — | 25.19 |
| Averages: | ||||||||||
| 1965 | 37 | 1.44 | 54 | 2.12 | 17.10 | 19.02 | 7.52 | 9.96 | 24.62 | 28.98 |
| 1964 | 36 | 1.44 | 44 | 1.71 | 25.91 | 15.13 | 14.92 | 12.49 | 40.83 | 27.63 |
| 1963 | 37 | 1.45 | 41 | 1.63 | 16.30 | 12.48 | 16.93 | 10.07 | 33.23 | 22.55 |
| 1962 | 43 | 1.69 | 40 | 1.58 | 14.80 | 14.21 | 9.51 | 8.49 | 24.31 | 22.69 |
| 1961 | 42(a) | 1.66(a) | 44 | 1.71 | 14.02(a | 15.08 | 9.05(a) | 7.80 | 23.05(A) | a) 22.88 |
| 1960 | 62 | 2.46 | 63 | 2.49 | 14.58 | 12.39 | 7.55 | 8.15 | 22,13 | 20.55 |
| 1960-1964 | 44 | 1.74 | 46 | 1.82 | 17.12 | 13.86 | 11.59 | 9.40 | 28.71 | 23.26 |
NOTE: A — Golden Lane B — Guildhall
(a) average for 10 months
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