Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg.

  • Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1944]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    __~1-_JL943 - I944*__ CLIMATE AND RATEABLE VALUE. Latitude - 29 degrees, 36 minutes, 4 seconds souths Longitude 3° degrees, 22 minutes, 46 seconds east. Altitude ~ At Market Square s 2160 feet. TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL : RAINFALL ' ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE RELATIVE HUMIDITYI • IN INCHES. Av. Daily Maximum. Avo Daily Minimum0 Av. Daily Mean. Aver. Daily 1 Percentage• 1943. July • 3*72 6817 41; 6 55.0 79:3% August 4:36 67:9 44:5 56;2 73:0% September o;i5 75.3 50:0 62;6. 73.2| October 8:69 • 75,6 56 6 0 65c8 30,2% November 5; 09 81.4 58:? 70.0 63.6^ December 4.91 79.6 59.4 69.5 67.5$ 1944. • - • V * January 1,72 87.3 65;5 76;4 57.7% February 4.74 77.0 63.0 70:0 77.7$ March 2:20 78.6 60.8 69;7 75:0% April 0.46 77; 2 51:6 64;4 73:5% May o;io 73.0 42:0 57; 5 67.3$ June 0.15 66.7 39.8 53.2 84.6$ Total : .36.29 AREA OF MUNICIPALITY s 31,1?4 acres. Value of Rateable Property : £7,712,230. 0. 0, Exempted Property 2 £3,113,450. 0, 0. RATES : General - 3^8 Water - 15d lS