Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate.

  • Zanzibar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XXIII. General Causes of Deaths, Zanzibar Town, 1917.— Contd. 315 1 22 1 916 Brought forward Local Diseases.—(continued) Poisons. Carbolic Acid-Suicide Parasites. Ankylostomiasis Lambliasis ... Undefined Causes... PART VI.—METEOROLOGY. The following tables have been compiled from the returns pub lisbed monthly by the Director of Agriculture. The returns for Zan zibar Town are furnished by Dr. Copland; the district returns by th- district stations; the Kigomache returns by the Port Office observer - the Banani returns by the Friends’ Industrial Mission. Table XXIY shews the rainfall in 1917 with the number of wet days each month in each of the three districts in Zanzibar and Pemba. Table XXY gives the rainfall in Zanzibar month by month for the last eight years. It will be seen that the average rainfall amounts to 56*56 inches for this period, the highest average rainfall in any one month being in April—16*35 inches—and the lowest in July— 1*37 inches. In Table XXYI comparison is made between the meteorological observations made during 1917 at Zanzibar Town and at Banani, near Chake Chake in Pemba. The highest absolute maximum temperature recorded during the year w^as 92*5 recorded at Banani in March as against 92*4 re¬ corded at Zanzibar in the same month. The lowest temperature recorded at Zanzibar was 70*0 in De¬ cember; the lowest at Banani 71*0 in July and August. The monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures show little variation between the two places, the highest mean maximum —89*1—being recorded at Banani in March, the lowest mean mini¬ mum—73*1—at Zanzibar in August.