London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Havering 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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For comparison with local figures details of rainfall at the
London Weather Centre are given in the following table. This
table also gives details of sunshine. Averages quoted are for the
10 year qeriod 1958 — 1967.
| Month | RAINFALL | SUNSHINE | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in. | Percentage of Average | Wettest Day | No. of dry days | Total hours | Percent age of Average | Sunniest Day | |||
| Date | in. | Date | hrs. | ||||||
| Jan. | 1.76 | 114 | 28 | 0.39 | 15 | 38 | 79 | 31 | 6.7 |
| Feb. | 1.18 | 99 | 20 | 0.41 | 18 | 75 | 131 | 10 | 8.3 |
| Mar. | 1.92 | 144 | 11 | 0.48 | 20 | 69 | 61 | 28 | 10.6 |
| Apr. | 0.52 | 28 | 24 | 0.15 | 23 | 197 | 158 | 5 | 11.8 |
| May | 1.61 | 93 | 6 | 0.32 | 12 | 167 | 86 | 28 | 12.2 |
| June | 0.97 | 43 | 23 | 0.49 | 23 | 270 | 130 | 10 | 14.8 |
| July | 2.87 | 144 | 29 | 1.51 | 26 | 227 | 120 | 4 | 14.6 |
| Aug. | 2.77 | 123 | 3 | 1.10 | 16 | 146 | 81 | 7 | 12.4 |
| Sept. | 0.16 | 7 | 15 | 0.05 | 25 | 119 | 78 | 20 | 10.1 |
| Oct. | 0.19 | 8 | 25 | 0.12 | 28 | 121 | 109 | 5 | 9.1 |
| Nov. | 2.83 | 135 | 14 | 0.49 | 12 | 66 | 115 | 1 | 8.1 |
| Dec.* | 1.66 | 73 | 14 | 0.27 | 16 | 19 | 41 | 15 | 6.8 |
| Year* | 18.44 | 80 | 29th July | 1.51 | 234 | 1514 | 102 | 10th June | 14.8 |
| A dry day is defined as one with less than .01 inch of rain during the 24 hrs. *Provisional | |||||||||