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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
Hackney 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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fell during the month of November. The temperature for the
first quarter of the year was about 2 degrees above the average,
that for the second quarter was nearly 1 degree above it, that
for the third quarter about 1 degree below it, and that for the
fourth quarter nearly an average, having been 40.4 in defect in
November, when the mortality was very high, and 30.5 in excess
in December, when the mortality was unusually low.