London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Whitechapel 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table Q.— METEOROLOGICAL STATISTICS.
| No. of Hours of Registered Bright Sunshine. | Mean of Degree of Humidity (saturation represented by 100). | Mean Reading of Barometer (in inches). | Mean of Horizontal movement of the Air. (miles per hour). | Mean Temperature (Fahrenheit). | Rainfall (in inches). | Rain or Snow (Number of days fall.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich. | Lewes. | |||||||
| 1st Quarter | 137.8 | 166.4 | 84.5 | 29.84 | 12.23 | 38°0 | 4.20 | 44 |
| 2nd „ | 447.8 | 479.9 | 80.0 | 29.68 | 8.6 | 54°3 | 7.27 | 39 |
| 3rd „ | 441.9 | 483.4 | 786 | 29.78 | 9.7 | 59°3 | 5.52 | 36 |
| 4th | 1294 | 1654 | 894 | 29.84 | 9.8 | 44°0 | 6.14 | 39 |
| Total or Mean | 1156.9 | 1295.1 | 83-1 | 29.78 | 10.0 | 48°9 | 23.13 | 158 |