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:: [1940]

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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$REP CRT “A” -1- 1939-1940 CLIMATE, AND. RATEABLE VALUE Latitude - 29 degrees? 36 minutes? 4 seconds south0 Longitude - 30 degrees? 22 minutes?46 seconds east. Altitude - At Market Square i 2160 feet. TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. RAINFALL i ATMOS PHEElC 1EMPE RATURE RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN \ Av. Daily °AV.Daily • Av. Daily Aver.Daily INCHES Maximum. .nimum. I Mean. Percentage 1939 I 1 0 o u 9 ft O July 0.52 | 69.3 O • 41.1 I 55.2 70.4% August 0 o 51 74.9 e 43.5 59.2 60.9/S September 2.76 77.2 G 49 .3 . 63.2 64.9% October 4.62 79.9 O O CO r~> o 1 I 69.3 63.6% November 4.53 78.5 9 58.2 • 68.3 65 .8% December 4.28 80 o 5 9 60 .5 : 70.4 68.7% 1940 'i o o January 2.41 83.9 O 61.9 5 72.9 65.2% February 2.47 87.4 o 65.0 • 76.2 60.4% March 4.37 87.0 <J • 61.7 I 74.3 60.8% April May 0.82 5.07 80.1 77.5 o o o 54.3 47.1 I 67.2 l 62.3 65.7% 66.2% June 2.92 73.2 ■> 9 o 42.2 : 57.7 9 71.7% Total : 35.28 AREA OF MUNICIPALITY. $ 27?591 acres. Value of Rateable Property Exempted Property £6?418?650. 0. 0. £2?479?230. 0. 0. RATES • General - 3-^-d Water 15 d o 16$

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

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