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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kingston upon Thames 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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Upon this area there were 26 dwellings, drained into
cesspools.
The sewage from that part of Ham which is now
included within the Borough of Kingston is received and
treated by the Richmond Main Sewerage Board, and this
arrangement will continue pending the completion of a
main sewer to take this sewage to the Kingston Corporation
Sewage Works.
The transferred areas ceased to be within the district
of the Tolworth Joint Hospital Board, and as reported
under Section B of this Report a fresh agreement was
entered into with the Wimbledon Corporation for the
admission of cases of infectious disease to the Wimbledon
Isolation Hospital from the whole Borough.
The Kingston Council became the authority for the
purposes of the Notification of Births Acts 1907 and 1915,
and the Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918, in the added
areas.
The year has been an exceptionally dry one, which is illustrated in the following table from records taken by Mr. P. G. Lloyd.
| Temperature of Air. | Rainfall Inches | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest | Lowest | Mean Max. | Mean Min. | ||
| January | 55 | 21 | 42 | 32 | 1.24 |
| February | 57 | 22 | 46 | 34 | 2.41 |
| March | 64 | 30 | 55 | 37 | 1.93 |
| April | 76 | 30 | 61 | 40 | 0.64 |
| May | 83 | 40 | 69 | 47 | 2.47 |
| June | 88 | 45 | 76 | 53 | 1.20 |
| July | 93 | 54 | 80 | 58 | 1.52 |
| August | 92 | 48 | 79 | 57 | 0.65 |
| September | 80 | 42 | 70 | 54 | 2.28 |
| October | 69 | 31 | 59 | 45 | 1.51 |
| November | 58 | 31 | 48 | 38 | 0.75 |
| December | 46 | 25 | 39 | 31 | 0.35 |
| 16.95 | |||||
The average annual rainfall (Greenwich) for the
hundred years, 1821-1920, was 24.39 inches.