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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
West Ham 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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METEOROLOGY.
The observations given below are extracted from the weekly
reports of observations taken at Greenwich Observatory, a course
justified by the geographical position of the Borough immediately
to the North of Greenwich. They show that the registered sunshine
of the year was 1,418 hours, being 315 1 hours less than in 1906.
The hottest day was September 25th, when the temperature reached
82.7 degrees, and the coldest day was December 30th, 1906, when it
sank to 19.8 degrees. The number of rainy days was 175, the total
rainfall of the year being 23.48 inches. The greatest daily fall
occurred on June 29th, when 1.03 inches fell.
M eteorology during 1907.
| Week ending. | Temperature. | No. of Rainy Days. | Sum for week, in inches. | Sunshine, in hours. | Mean Barometric reading. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-est. | Lowest. | Mean for Week. | Departure from average of 50 years. | |||||
| o | o | o | o | |||||
| Jan. 5 | 51.0 | 19.8 | 39.3 | + 0.8 | 5 | 0.98 | 10.8 | 29.574 |
| 12 | 48.4 | 33.7 | 42.8 | + 49 | 3 | 0.18 | 6.3 | 303.06 |
| „ 19 | 48.2 | 26.1 | 40.7 | + 2.0 | 1 | 0.01 | 3.3 | 30.431 |
| „ 26 | 44.0 | 22.4 | 30.5 | -8.4 | 2 | 0.04 | 7.2 | 30.375 |
| Feb. 2 | 49.8 | 22.5 | 36.1 | -3.5 | 3 | 0.19 | 11.8 | 29.914 |
| „ 9 | 41.2 | 23.5 | 33 0 | .6.5 | 4 | 0.19 | 17.9 | 29.943 |
| „ 16 | 48 6 | 28.0 | 39.7 | + 0.6 | 5 | 0.77 | 15.0 | 29.619 |
| „ 23 | 51.4 | 25.5 | 39 9 | + 0.3 | 3 | 0.29 | 19.8 | 29.572 |
| Mar. 2 | 55.0 | 24.4 | 40.6 | + 0.4 | 1 | 0.01 | 11.0 | 30.225 |
| „ 9 | 49.0 | 26.2 | 40.1 | .0.8 | 3 | 0.37 | 21.9 | 30.040 |
| „ 16 | 58.1 | 24.1 | 42.8 | + 1.5 | 5 | 0.40 | 27.0 | 29.889 |
| „ 23 | 58.2 | 29 1 | 46.1 | + 4.1 | 2 | 0.13 | 50.5 | 29.964 |
| „ 30 | 66.6 | 28.0 | 46.5 | + 3.1 | — | 0.00 | 53.5 | 30.129 |
| Apl. 6 | 69.4 | 351 | 49.6 | + 3.8 | 2 | 0.17 | 43.6 | 29.404 |
| „ 13 | 58.3 | 32.3 | 44.1 | .1.9 | 5 | 1.42 | 18.8 | 29.423 |
| „ 20 | 57.0 | 29.1 | 43.7 | .3.8 | 4 | 0.63 | 27.7 | 29.653 |
| „ 27 | 72.0 | 35.1 | 49.4 | + 0.8 | 3 | 0.90 | 31.4 | 29.957 |