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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
Lewisham 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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Table IX. A list of the licensed slaughter-houses in
the District.
Meteorology.
The mean temperature of the air at Greenwich in 1889
was 48.8.
The highest reading by day, 86.6, was registered in
August, and the lowest reading by night, 18.7, in March.
Rain fell on 159 days, the total amount of rainfall being
23.3 inches, or about two inches below the average.
I am, Gentlemen,
Faithfully yours,
8. BLAKE JOLLY,
Medical Officer of Health to the Lewisham District.