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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
Croydon 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE X.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD—YEAR 1905.
Rain Gauge 5-in. in diameter, 1-ft. above ground, 146-ft. above sea level. Temperature taken in the shade of a Stevenson's Screen, 4-ft. from the ground. The Ground Thermometer is suspended in an iron tube, the bulb being 4-ft. below the level of the ground.
| Months. | Temperature of Air during the Month. | Mean Temperature of Air. | Difference from average 50 years at Greenwich. | Mean Temperature of Ground at 4-ft. | Mean Temperature of the Dew Point. | Mean Tensional Differen e between Ground and Dew Point at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. | Rainfall. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest. | Lowest | Mean of | No. of Days on which Rain fell. | Amount collected in Inches. | Difference from average 85 years at Greenwich | |||||||
| All Highest. | All Lowest. | |||||||||||
| January | 54° | 20° | 43°.9 | 33°.1 | 38°.5 | None. | 42°.0 | 35°.0 | in. 0.063 | 7 | in. 1.21 | in. — 0.59 |
| February | 54° | 31° | 47°.0 | 38°.0 | 42°.5 | + 3°.0 | 41°.6 | 39°.2 | •024 | 13 | 0.96 | — 0.56 |
| March | 63° | 27° | 52°.4 | 38°.9 | 45°.6 | + 3°.9 | 43°.1 | 42°.1 | .010 | 22 | 3.26 | + 1.74 |
| April | 66° | 32° | 54°.7 | 40°.7 | 47°.7 | + 0°.5 | 46°.0 | 43°.3 | •031 | 16 | 1.70 | +. 09 |
| May | 82° | 32° | 65°.1 | 43°.3 | 54°.2 | + 1°.1 | 49°.5 | 46°.0 | .044 | 8 | 0.95 | — 1.00 |
| June | 81° | 46° | 68°.7 | 52°.4 | 60°.5 | + 1°.1 | 54°.5 | 56°.4 | + .031 | 17 | 5.80 | + 3.83 |
| July | 87° | 48° | 77°.5 | 57°.2 | 67°.3 | + 4°.8 | 59°.6 | 60°.1 | + .009 | 9 | 0.71 | — 1.74 |
| August | 79° | 46° | 69°.3 | 53°.2 | 61°.2 | — 0°.4 | 60°.1 | 56°.8 | .058 | 17 | 2.64 | + .31 |
| September | 74° | 39° | 63°.0 | 49°.5 | 56°.2 | — 1°.0 | 56°.7 | 53°.8 | •046 | 16 | 2.06 | — 1.9 |
| October | 59° | 27° | 52°.5 | 38°.0 | 45°.2 | — 4°.8 | 50°.9 | 43°.4 | .092 | 10 | 1.05 | — 1.67 |
| November | 53° | 23° | 47°.2 | 36°.1 | 41°.6 | — l°.6 | 45°.9 | 40°.7 | .055 | 19 | 3.96 | + 1.67 |
| December | 26° | 36°.8 | 40°.8 | + 1°.1 | 43°.7 | 39°.4 | 0.044 | 11 | 0.55 | — 1.40 | ||
| Means and Totals for the Year. | 87° | 20° | 57°.2 | 43°.1 | 50°.l | + 0°.6 | 49°.5 | 46°.3 | 0.042 | 165 | 24.85 | |
The Rainfall for the Year was 0'92 inches below, and the number of days on which rain fell 5 above the average of 40 years
at Croydon. GEO. CORDEN, F.R. Met. Soc.
Croydon.
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