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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 1877
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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the air was drier than usual. The rainfall in July and
September was small, viz. 3.5 inches, but in August it was 2.9
inches, so that the deficiency for the summer was one inch for
the three months. One result of this deficiency in the mean
temperature of July and September was that the ordinary
autumnal diarrhoea did not occur to the usual extent.
Received and Ordered to be Printed and Circulated as usual.
JOHN KELDAY, Chairman.
May 1878.