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 Hackney]
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TABLE I.
1857. Week Ending | Barometer. | Temperature of the Air. | Moisture. | Wind. | Rain. | Ozone. | Number of cases attended by District Medical Officers. | Number of Cases of Epidemic Dieases. | Deaths in the week which is subsequendto the date given. | |||||||
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Mean of Seven Observations, corrected. | Absolute. | Average. | Mean Dew-point Temperature | Mean Degree of Humidity (Saturation=100). | General Direction. | Mean Weekly Amount. | Mean daily Amount. | |||||||||
Highest. | Lowest. | Range. | Mean of Seven daily Maximums. | Mean of Seven daily Mini-mums. | Mean of Seven daily Ranges. | Adopted MeanTemperature. | ||||||||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Inches | |||||||
January 3 | 29.894 | 51.8 | 20.2 | 31.6 | 45.7 | 35.5 | 10.2 | 40.9 | 37.4 | 84.0 | W. s. w. | 0.26 | 1.1 | 229 | 9 | 30 |
10 | 30.034 | 50.6 | 28.5 | 22.1 | 40.8 | 31.9 | 8.9 | 36.9 | 34.6 | 92.0 | N. E. | 1.24 | 1.7 | 252 | 18 | 38 |
17 | 29.821 | 44.6 | 28.0 | 16.6 | 41.7 | 31.2 | 10.5 | 35.8 | 33.2 | 87.3 | S.W. | 0.48 | 0.7 | 259 | 8 | 30 |
24 | 29.694 | 48.6 | 28.6 | 20.0 | 44.0 | 32.6 | 11.4 | 39.5 | 360 | 88.0 | W. | 0.35 | 0.0 | 267 | 20 | 27 |
31 | 29.675 | 38.8 | 21.2 | 17.6 | 360 | 27.2 | 9.8 | 31.1 | 28.2 | 87.5 | N. W. | 0.48 | 0.6 | 273 | 10 | 34 |
February 7 | 29.855 | 47.6 | 22.2 | 25.4 | 39.7 | 29.1 | 10.6 | 34.7 | 33.4 | 93.7 | Variable. | 0.06 | 0.9 | 307 | 10 | 37 |
14 | 29.916 | 49.6 | 31.8 | 17.8 | 44.5 | 36.1 | 8. 4 | 40.5 | 37.6 | 89.8 | S. W. | 0.08 | 0.0 | 315 | 16 | 34 |
21 | 30.086 | 54.4 | 29.8 | 24.6 | 50.8 | 37.1 | 13.7 | 43.4 | 39.9 | 87.6 | S.W. | 0.00 | 0.0 | 329 | 16 | 33 |
28 | 30.331 | 54.6 | 26.2 | 28.4 | 49.2 | 33.7 | 15.5 | 40.1 | 37.1 | 89.7 | Variable. | 0.00 | 0.3 | 287 | 18 | 21 |
March 7 | 30.278 | 54.6 | 32.2 | 22.4 | 50.6 | 37.4 | 13.2 | 43.2 | 39.2 | 85.8 | Variable. | 0.00 | 0.0 | 233 | 20 | 29 |
14 | 29.728 | 52.4 | 29.8 | 22.6 | 44.1 | 32.3 | 11.8 | 37.9 | 32.6 | 82.3 | N. N. E. | 0.45 | 0.3 | 205 | 19 | 37 |
21 | 29.833 | 64.6 | 33.5 | 31.1 | 54.3 | 39.1 | 15.2 | 45.6 | 39.8 | 80.7 | S.W.&S.E | 0.35 | 0.2 | 263 | 17 | 26 |
28 | 29.740 | 51.6 | 28.8 | 22.8 | 48.4 | 35.2 | 13.2 | 40.6 | 38.8 | 92.8 | Variable. | 0.10 | 0.0 | 236 | 10 | 31 |
Sums | 388.885 | 663.8 | 365.8 | 303.0 | 589.8 | 438.4 | 152.4 | 511.2 | 467.3 | 1141.2 | 3.85 | 5.8 | 3455 | 191 | 407 | |
Means | 29.990 | 51.1 | 27.8 | 23.3 | 45.4 | 33.7 | 11.7 | 39.3 | 35.9 | 87.8 | 0.29 | 0.4 |
Note.—All the Meteorological instruments have been compared with the standards at Greenwich, and certified by Mr. Glaisher. All the observations
have been corrected for error, for diurnal range, &c., and reduced by Glaisher Tables, last editions.