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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TABLE 1—
1933 | Cloud. | Rain and other forms of Precipitation. | Weather Number of days of | Wind. Number of Observations at 9 a.m., 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mean of Observations of amount at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. (Scale 0-10.) | Total Fall. | Difference from Normal.† | Most in a Day. | Precipitation (0.2 mm and above). | Precipitation (1 mm. and above). | Snow. | Hall. | Thunderstorm. | Persistently Clear. | Generally Clear.* | Generally Overcast.* | Persistently Overcast. | Fog at 9 a.m. | Gale. | Force. | Direction. | |||||||||||
Amount. | Day of Month. | Gale | Moderate and Strong Wind | Calm. | N. | N.E. | E. | S.E. | S. | S.W. | W. | N.W. | |||||||||||||||
January | 6.7 | mm. 27 | mm. 16 | mm. 4 | 4 7 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 5 |
February | 7.1 | 42 | + 2 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 7 |
March | 4.3 | 61 | + 17 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 9 | 2 |
April | 5.7 | 19 | — 18 | 5 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 24 | 19 | 6 |
May | 6.9 | 57 | + 13 | 18 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
June | 5.5 | 39 | — 12 | 11 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
July | 5.5 | 35 | — 22 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 10 | 33 | 17 | 6 |
August | 4.9 | 13 | — 43 | 3 | 31 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 22 | 7 |
September | 5.3 | 68 | + 23 | 21 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
October | 5.8 | 38 | — 26 | 7 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 17 | 8 |
November | 7.9 | 22 | — 36 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 1 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 14 |
December | 8.5 | 9 | — 48 | 4 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 2 |
Year | 6.2 | 430 | —166 | 21 | Sept. 19th | 145 | 94 | 18 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 41 | 135 | 19 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 1085 | 10 | 133 | 144 | 161 | 83 | 115 | 221 | 148 | 80 |
*A day is reckoned as "generally clear" if the average of the estimates of the fraction of sky covered by cloud at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m. is less than .2, and as "generally overcast" if the average is greater than .8. Days persistently cloudless and days persistently overcast refer to the period midnight to midnight. |