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 Whitechapel]
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T able 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 Snows (Number of days fall.) | ||
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Greenwich. | Lewes. | |||||||
1st Quarter | 185.3 | 242.1 | 85.5 | 29.81 | 13.3 | 41°0 | 5.12 | 43 |
2nd „ | 498.9 | 521.0 | 74.4 | 29.72 | 10.8 | 52°6 | 5.30 | 43 |
3rd „ | 422.1 | 510.4 | 79.9 | 29.79 | 9.9 | 59°3 | 8.00 | 40 |
4th „ | 151.1 | 29.77 | 11.5 | 41°9 | 3.38 | 34 | ||
Total or Mean | 1257.4 | 1462.5 | 8l.2 | 29.77 | 11.3 | 48°7 | 21.80 | 160 |