[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Swansea R.D.C., Llangyfellach District.

  • Swansea (Wales). Rural District Council (Llangyfellach District)
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Swansea R.D.C., Llangyfellach District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    total was 47’o inches. The excess, however, is so slight, viz., but oo oi inches that it is hardly worth alluding to beyond the curiosity. For the interest of Agriculturists and others interested in this subject I will quote a short paragraph from Dr. Mill’s British Rainfall for 1907, to show what enormous weights of waterfall occasionally in certain districts in the kingdom. Page 29 thus: “ From these figures it appears that the area affected by falls of 2 inches or over, and the volume of rain that fell upon them was the same on both days, but that there was a far greater area with a rainfall between *50 and roo inches on the 21 st; the area with less than half an inch was the same on both days - (He is here speaking about the district of the Black Mountains in Wales were severe thunderstorms took place on the two days 21 and 22 July)—The total volume of rain on the 21 st was 333.706 million gallons, on the 22nd 200,461 million gallons, the total for the two days amounting to 534,167 million gallons, a weight of 2,385,000,000 Tons, in other words there fell in less than 10 hours, a weight equal to the whole output of British Coal in 10 years ! At the end will be found the usual Tables required by the Local Government Board and Home Office. I am. Your obedient Servant, E. RICE MORGAN, M O.H., D.P.H., &C.