Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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and in some localities it was more than three times as
much; Wilton, near Salisbury, reporting a total amounting
to more than three and a half times the average. At
many Southern stations the month was the wettest December
noted in records extending back for 40 or 50 years,
and at Ross, Herefordshire, for as many as 94 years.
Mean temperatures : Highest, 48.6° ; lowest, 39.7°.
Rainfall at Leyton, 3.68 inches.