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A REPORT
of the
METEOROLOGY, MORTALITY, AND SICKNESS
of
ST. MARYLEBONE
FOR THE YEAR 1905.
By A. Wynter Blyth.
METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY.
March Quarter.
January of 1905 was on the whole mild, with but little
frost; the snowfall was so scanty as to only equal 02 inch of
rain. The rainfall was far below the average, the rainy days
being but six in number, and the total fall measuring 0.5 inch.
Sunshine was variable ; the firs! week was gloomy, the sunshine
being only 5 per cent., but the succeeding weeks were brighter,
and during the last January week 27 per cent. of the possible
sunshine was registered in Regent's Park.
February was a wet cool month. There were 14 rainy days,
the rainfall measured 0.74 inch. Sunshine was rather above the
average, and during the third week amounted to 33 per cent.
The temperature varied from 30° to 54.5o. The winds were
mostly in the cool quarters of N.W. and N.E.
The March weather, instead of the usual dry, windy, cool,
ordinary weather, was wet. Rain fell on no less than 21 days,
and the rainfall attained 3 inches. The temperature varied from
33o to 49o. The winds were as a rule S.W. Sunshine was,
notwithstanding the numerous rainy days, of fair amount.
June Quarter.
April was on the whole wet. There were 15 rainy days,
yielding 2.09 inches of rainfall. The temperature varied from
31.0o to 65.0o. The sunshine from 13.6 to 51 percent. The
winds were mostly N.E. and N.W.