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Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Willesden Urban District Council.
PUBLIC HEALTH QUARTERLY STATISTICS.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
I beg leave to submit the following statistics for
the third quarter of the year.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Taken at the Hospital, Dog Lane, Neasden.
Readings at 10.0 a.m. Daily.
Altitude of ground at Meteorological Station, 97.64, O.D.
Altitude of Rim of Rain Gauge, 102.36, O.D.
| 1910 Week ending. | Mean reading of Barometer corrected for temperature and altitude. | Temperature. Shown in degrees Fahrenheit. | Mean Degree of Humidity. | Rainfall in Inches. | No. of Days on which Rain was measured. | Total No. of Hours of Bright Sunshine. | Hours of Bright Sunshine Registered at Greenwich. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of the Air. | Of the Earth at a depth of 4-ft. | ||||||||||||
| Highest | Lowest | Range in week. | Mean of , all-Highest. | Mean of all-Lowest. | |||||||||
| Max. | Min. | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| in. | deg. | deg. | deg. | deg. | deg. | deg. | deg. | deg. | |||||
| July 2 | 29.649 | 66.50 | 42.50 | 24.00 | 64.68 | 49.82 | 53.75 | 53.00 | 77 | 1.55 | 5 | 38.8 | 33.5 |
| 29.948 | 65.75 | 46.00 | 19.75 | 63.50 | 49.75 | 53.75 | 53.75 | 78 | 1.12 | 5 | 18.8 | 18.0 | |
| ,, 16 | 30.069 | 72.75 | 47.50 | 25.25 | 66.89 | 52.50 | 53.75 | 53.75 | 80 | - | - | 36.3 | 34.5 |
| ,,23 | 29.849 | 70.00 | 46.50 | 23.50 | 67.07 | 53.39 | 54.00 | 53.75 | 77 | .62 | 5 | 20.8 | 17.6 |
| ,, 30 | 29.803 | 73.75 | 45.00 | 28.75 | 66.18 | 53.11 | 54.00 | 54.00 | 76 | .64 | 3 | 25.0 | 29.5 |
| Aug. 6 | 29.821 | 70.50 | 48.75 | 21.75 | 69.29 | 51.75 | 54.25 | 54.00 | 76 | .66 | 4 | 46.0 | 49.6 |
| ,, 13 | 30.014 | 74.50 | 44.00 | 30.50 | 69.71 | 52.75 | 54.75 | 54.25 | 83 | .08 | 2 | 29.5 | 27.7 |
| ,, 20 | 30.005 | 73 .00 | 47.00 | 26.00 | 70.64 | 53.64 | 55.00 | 54 .75 | 80 | .16 | 3 | 45.3 | 52.7 |
| ,, 27 | 29.865 | 72.00 | 48.00 | 24.00 | 68.93 | 53.14 | 55.50 | 55.00 | 78 | .6o | 6 | 33.3 | 37.1 |
| Sept. 3 | 30.040 | 69.50 | 48.75 | 20.75 | 65.61 | 50.86 | 55.50 | 55.50 | 75 | .78 | 2 | 34.8 | 38.6 |
| ,, 10 | 30.236 | 66.00 | 36.00 | 30.00 | 62.64 | 48.29 | 55.75 | 55.50 | 74 | — | — | 14.2 | 15.7 |
| ,, 017 | 30.248 | 67.00 | 42.00 | 25.00 | 64.18 | 51.21 | 55.75 | 55.00 | 82 | .41 | 2 | 22.2 | 21.2 |
| ,, 24 | 30.280 | 64.75 | 34.75 | 30.00 | 61.86 | 43.61 | 55.00 | 55.00 | 73 | - | - | 53.2 | 55.4 |
| Oct. 1 | 30.109 | 74.75 | 45.00 | 29.75 | 67.89 | 47.89 | 55.00 | 54.50 | 84 | — | - | 27.0 | 30.7 |
| Total | Ttl. | Total | Total | ||||||||||
| Means | — | 70.05 | 44.41 | 25.64 | 66.36 | 50.84 | 54.69 | 54.41 | 78 | 6.62 | 37 | 445.2 | 461.8 |
| Mean for Corresponding 3 months, 1907, ???08 00 | |||||||||||||
| *Standard. Note the standard figures in Ionics are the figures for the corresponding months based on the observations recorded during the years 1902-1908. | |||||||||||||