[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Shrewsbury Borough.

  • Shrewsbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Shrewsbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ To the North-Kast, on the low lying ground outside the neck of the peninsula is the considerable district of Castle Fields, built over for the most part some fifty or sixty years ago, and forming an artisan residential quarter.” Rainfall.-—The rainfall for the year, records of which have been kindly supplied b} Dr. Gepp, was 26.47 inches, which is less by 1.55 than in the previous year, when the rainfall was 28.02 inches. The following table indicates the fall in each month, with the number of days on which 1/lOOth of an inch of rain fell, the greatest rainfall on any day, and the date of the highest daily rainfall in each month Total No. of days Greatest Date of fall. .01 of rain. fall. greatest fall J anuary 3.10 14 .64 nth February’ .93 10 .34 9th March 3.71 18 .76 22nd April 3.21 18 .53 15 th May 2.19 18 .54 3rd June 1.12 8 .28 5th July ... 1.19 10 .47 6th August ... 2.39 i .87 22nd September 1.72 13 .53 22nd October ... 3.64 15 1.20 5th November 2.05 15 .34 13th December 1.22 11 .42 4th Total 26.47 157 Below is recorded the yearly rainfall for the past six years 1908 ... 24.46 inche 1909 ... 23.03 } f 1910 ... 25.98 } 9 1911 ... 17.37 y 9 1912 ... 28.02 9 y 1913 ... 26.47 9 9