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Lenton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1897,
by
A. V. PESKETT,
medical officer of health.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you my Annual Report for 1897.
The winter months were very variable, rainy days being numerous.
Falls of snow occurred in February, and morning frosts were recorded
even into May. There were cold easterly winds in the spring, but
gradually the very variable weather of June, which consisted of gales,
thunderstorms and floods, passed into the brilliant sunshine and great
heat of the summer. Hot weather was prolonged beyond the average,
and was then followed by a cold, dull and rainy autumn.
To the excessive and long continued heat of the summer we must
attribute the high death-rate we experienced in August, diarrhoea being
the chief result of the unhealthy weather.