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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 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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TABLE I - Deposit Gauge
The rainwater collected at Guildhall during the year was more than the average for the past
five years. The insoluble deposits were also more than the average for the past five years but
showed a decrease of 1.17 tons per square mile as compared with 1965.
TABLE II — Smoke concentration by volumetric method.
The concentration of smoke recorded during 1966 is once again less than the average for
the past five years.
TABLE III — Sulphur measurement — by volumetric and lead peroxide methods.
The concentration of sulphur in 1966 was approximately the same as the average for the
past five years.
TABLE 1— Results obtained in 1966 of the monthly observations of rainfall and deposited matter by means of the deposit gauge.
| February | 65 | 2.55 | 20.26 | 11.49 | 31.75 |
| March | 10 | 0.39 | 46.63 | 6 08 | 52.72 |
| April | 89 | 3.51 | 5.20 | 13.63 | 18.83 |
| May | 29 | 1.15 | 0.65 | 4 25 | 4.89 |
| June | 51 | 2.01 | 26.82 | 11.42 | 38.24 |
| July | 26 | 1.04 | 8.60 | 10.74 | 19.34 |
| August | 78 | 3.08 | 21.62 | 11.01 | 32.63 |
| September | 3 | 0.12 | 14.38 | 3.53 | 17.91 |
| October | 82 | 3.22 | 10.98 | 10.67 | 21.65 |
| November | – | – | – | – | – |
| December | 69 | 2.72 | 18.66 | 15.40 | 34.06 |
| Averages: 1966 | 49 | 1.94 | 17.85 | 10.11 | 27.96 |
| 1965 | 54 | 2.12 | 19.02 | 9.96 | 28.98 |
| 1964 | 44 | 1.71 | 15.13 | 12.49 | 27.63 |
| 1963 | 41 | 1.63 | 12.48 | 10.07 | 22.55 |
| 1962 | 40 | 1.58 | 14.21 | 8.49 | 22.69 |
| 1961 | 44 | 1.71 | 15.08 | 7.80 | 22.88 |
| 1961-1965 | 45 | 1.75 | 15.18 | 9.76 | 24.95 |