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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
Paddington 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE 10.
As to a possible relationship between Earth Temperature and Sporadic Enteric Fever.
FIRST QUARTER.
SECOND QUARTER.
THIRD QUARTER.
FOURTH QUARTER.
YEAR.
Temperature
recorded.
Departure from
Average.
Enteric
Fever.
Temperature
recorded.
Departure from
Average.
Enteric
Fever.
Temperature
recorded.
Departure from
Average.
Enteric
Fever.
Temperature
recorded.
Departure from
Average.
Enteric
Fever.
Temperature
recorded.
Departure from
Average.
Enteric
Fever.
Recorded.
Departure
from Average.
Recorded.
Departure
from average.
Recorded.
Departure
from average.
Recorded.
Departure
from Average.
Recorded.
Departure
from Average.
London
43.69
+1.09
803
+184
51.72
-0.48
458
-38
64.03
+1.82
1094
+200
50.09
-0.63
2178
+895
52.38
+0.44
4532
+1235
Paddington
16
+2
10
+1
30
+16
43
+16
98
+35
Notes-In this Table the quarterly and annual mean temperatures of the earth at a depth of 3-ft. (as recorded
turing 1899 at (Greenwich) have been compared with the corresponding means for the years 1895-1898. A
similar comparison has been instituted between the total notifications of enteric and continued fevers for
London and Paddington.