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 Shoreditch]
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TABLE III.
Shewing the Weekly Meteorological Phenomena, and the total Deaths in Shoreditch and all London; the Deaths from Epidemics in Shoreditch and all London, and the proportions borne by Shoreditch for 13 weeks ending June 27th, 1857.
1867 Week ending | Average Temperature | Barometer in INCHES. | Difference between Dew-point Temperature and Air-Temperature | WIND. | Rain in Inches | TOTAL DEATHS. | Proportion of deaths from allcausesin Shoreditch to all London | DEATHS From EPIDEMICS | Proportion of Deaths from Epidemics in Shoreditch to all London | |||
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General Direction. | Amount of Horizontal Movement. MILES. | In Shore ditch | In all London. | InShore ditch | In all London | |||||||
April 4 | 47°.8 | 29.334 | 50.1 | S. E. | 730 | 0.45 | 47 | 1235 | 1/26 | 3 | 153 | 1/51 |
„ 11 | 49.9 | 29.519 | 4.9 | VARIABLE | 505 | 0.53 | 45 | 1059 | 1/23 | 5 | 153 | 1/31 |
„ 18 | 43.4 | 29.453 | 5.3 | VARIABLE | 875 | 0.38 | 64 | 1084 | 1/17 | 20 | 177 | 1/9 |
„ 25 | 46.6 | 29.882 | 6.5 | S.W. &N.E. | 590 | 0.32 | 63 | 1065 | 1/17 | 11 | 156 | 1/41 |
May 2 | 41.5 | 29.912 | 6.5 | N. E. | 395 | 0.00 | 57 | 1038 | 1/18 | 7 | 164 | 1/23 |
„ 9 | 44.8 | 29.962 | 6.6 | N. E. | 400 | 0.00 | 47 | 1064 | 1/23 | 9 | 163 | 1/18 |
„ 16 | 57.6 | 29.808 | 7.7 | VARIABLE | 400 | 0.08 | 55 | 1050 | 1/19 | 14 | 153 | 1/11 |
„ 23 | 58.9 | 29.706 | 8.4 | s. w. | 550 | 0.35 | 48 | 948 | 1/19 | 11 | 141 | 1/13 |
„ 30 | 56.9 | 29.597 | 8.7 | VARIABLE | 530 | 0.12 | 42 | 915 | 1/22 | 8 | 159 | 1/19 |
June 6 | 60.6 | 29.887 | 9.7 | S. "W. | 505 | 0.23 | 46 | 862 | 1/15 | 9 | 140 | 1/16 |
„ 13 | 56.0 | 29.758 | 7.1 | s.w. &S.E. | 930 | 0.71 | 61 | 934 | 1/19 | 12 | 139 | 1/12 |
,, 20 | 60.3 | 29.882 | 9.1 | N. E. | 1725 | 0.85 | 52 | 987 | 1/16 | 12 | 169 | 1/14 |
„ 27 | 67.3 | 30.058 | 9.1 | CALM. | 180 | 0.21 | 64 | 1005 | 1/19 | 16 | 169 | 1/11 |
Mean | 53.0 | 29.750 | 7.3 | Totals. | 8315 | 4.23 | 691 | 13246 | 1/19 | 137 | 2036 | 1/15 |
No. of Col. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |