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 Woolwich]
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and eleven below; its average temperature was 57.2, which
is 2.9 degrees below the average. In the autumn quarter
the temperature was above the average in six weeks, below
in six, and equal to the average in one.
The lowest temperature, 20.3° F., occurred in the fourth
week of January, and the highest, 82.2° F., occurred in
the fourth week of June.
The rainfall, 28.06 in., was above the average; the
excess being specially in the spring and autumn quarters.
The largest weekly number of deaths, 46, took place in
the week ending December 17th ; the smallest number of
deaths was in the week ending August 6th.
(See also under Diarrhœa).