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Hackney 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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METEOROLOGY.
The following table, for which I am indebted to the Secretary
of the Royal Meteorological Society, gives an abstract of the
Meteorology for the district for the year 1895 : —
ABSTRACT OP CLIHATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS,
St. Luke 's, Old Street, E .C.
| 1895. | Temperature. | Relative Humidity. | Amount of Cloud. | Rain. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Means. | Extremes. | Amnt. | No. of Days. | ||||||||
| 9 a.m. | Min. | Max. Range. | Mean. | Min. | Max. | ||||||
| ¡ð | ¡ð | ¡ð | ¡ð | ¡ð | ¡ð | ¡ð | % | in. | |||
| January | 34.4 | 31.0 | 38.4 | 7.4 | 34.7 | 22.0 | 51.5 | 88 | 8.6 | 2.03 | 17 |
| February | 29.4 | 25.4 | 36.0 | 10.6 | 30.7 | 13.0 | 44.9 | 75 | 8.8 | .16 | 3 |
| March | 42.4 | 37.9 | 50.0 | 12.1 | 44.0 | 25.4 | 63.7 | 83 | 8.9 | 1.49 | 18 |
| April | 48.7 | 42.8 | 56.6 | 13.8 | 49.7 | 34.0 | 65.2 | 79 | 8.4 | 1.41 | 14 |
| May | 57.1 | 47.8 | 66.4 | 18.6 | 57.1 | 39.2 | 83.1 | 69 | 6.2 | .51 | 6 |
| June | 61.5 | 52.5 | 71.3 | 18.8 | 61.9 | 44.0 | 82.1 | 69 | 6.3 | .15 | 3 |
| July | 63.6 | 56.0 | 70.6 | 14.6 | 63.3 | .. | 80.1 | 71 | 7.7 | 3.38 | 13 |
| August | 62.7 | 55.5 | 70.2 | 14.7 | 62.8 | 47.8 | 79.3 | 75 | 7.1 | 2.95 | 18 |
| September | 61.9 | 53.8 | 72.7 | 18.9 | 63.3 | 44.0 | 84.7 | 78 | 4.8 | 1.44 | 6 |
| October | 47.5 | 43.0 | 53.2 | 10.2 | 48.1 | 29.6 | 73.2 | 84 | 8.5 | 3.26 | 15 |
| November | 48.0 | 44.0 | 53.1 | 9.1 | 48.5 | 36.2 | 63.4 | 89 | 8.9 | 2.96 | 17 |
| December | 40.8 | 37.2 | 45.3 | 8.1 | 41.3 | 27.8 | 56.6 | 88 | 9.1 | 2.23 | 19 |
| Year | 49.8 | 43.9 | 57.0 | 13.1 | 50.5 | 13.0 | 84.7 | 79 | 7.8 | 21.97 | 149 |
THE MORTUARY.
The following tables give the number of bodies deposited in
the mortuary, and the post-mortems performed, together with the
number of inquests held in the Coroner's Court during the year
1895:—