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Hackney 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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ABSTRACT OP CLIMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. The following table, for which I am indebted to W. Marriott, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Meteorological Society, is an abstract of the Climatological Observations made at St. Luke's, Old Street,E.C., for the year 1901.
| 1901. | Temperature. | Relative Humidity. | Amount of Cloud. | Rain. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Means. | Extremes. | Amount. | No.of Days | ||||||||
| 9 a.m. | Min. | Max. | Range | Mean. | Min. | Max | |||||
| JANUARY | o 39.0 | o 35.6 | o 43.8 | o 8.2 | o 39.7 | o 24.9 | o 54.3 | °/ /o 8 | 8.5 | in. .61 | 12 |
| FEBRUARY | 36.3 | 33.7 | 40.5 | 6.8 | 37.1 | 23.5 | 51.3 | 88 | 8.2 | 1.16 | 9 |
| MARCH | 40.5 | 35.8 | 45.3 | 9.5 | 40.6 | 27.0 | 55.3 | 81 | 7.7 | 1.86 | 18 |
| APRIL | 51.7 | 42.5 | 57.4 | 14.9 | 49.9 | 36.8 | 73.4 | 60 | 5.6 | 2.05 | 15 |
| MAY | 56.3 | 46.4 | 63.8 | 17.4 | 55.1 | 40.7 | 80.7 | 64 | 5.0 | .88 | 7 |
| JUNE | 61.4 | 52.1 | 68.5 | 16.4 | 60.3 | 43.7 | 78.1 | 62 | 6.1 | 1.29 | 9 |
| JULY | 67.9 | 58.2 | 74.3 | 16.1 | 66.3 | 52.1 | 85.3 | 64 | 4.0 | 2.69 | 8 |
| AUGUST | 65.8 | 56.4 | 72.0 | 15.6 | 64.2 | 47.6 | 81.1 | 63 | 4.7 | 1.65 | 10 |
| SEPTEMBER | 59.3 | 53.5 | 65.7 | 12.2 | 59.6 | 46.8 | 73.0 | 76 | 7.6 | 1.63 | 5 |
| OCTOBER. | 50.8 | 46.2 | 57.0 | 10.8 | 51.6 | 35.8 | 72.3 | 83 | 6.8 | 1.98 | 12 |
| NOVEMBER | 41.8 | 38.0 | 47.2 | 9.2 | 42.6 | 26.4 | 54.6 | 82 | 7.4 | .64 | 8 |
| DECEMBER | 49.6 | 37.0 | 44.8 | 7.8 | 40.9 | 27.2 | 58.1 | 85 | 7.0 | 2.83 | 16 |
| YEAR | 51.0 | 44.6 | 56.7 | 12.1 | 50.6 | 23.5 | 85.3 | 74.7 | 6.6 | 19.27 | 129 |
I remain,
Yours faithfully,
J. KING. WARRY,
m.d., m.r.c.p., d.ph., etc.,
July, 1902. Medical Officer of Health.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health received and ordered to be
printed and circulated in the usual manner.
WALTER JOHNSON,
Mayor.