Vapour Tension.
Evaporation.
Temperature of
III.—METEROLOGICAL RETURNS, 1925.
Monthly Values of Meteorological Elements.
MONTHLY VALUES of the METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS in the YEAR 1925. (British Units).
Barometric Pressure.
Air Temperature.
Month
1925.
(Range).
Mean Diurnal
Inequality
Highest. Lowest. Mean.
Highest. Lowest.
Minima.
Daily
Range.
Mean Daily
{1 }) tlu [{
Month.
Range in
Maxima Daily Mean of the
Mcan.
Highest.Lowest.
Mean
xc
I
ins.
ins.
ins.
ins,
о
Q
о
January
February
March
A pril
30 281 29-671 29-994 0-105] 746
41-4
33.2
1-19
53-3
313
629-
280-08)
0-118171-2
39-7
31.5
60-4
52-5
*305
106-67
899.
299.
181-
6.84 901-0
54.8
24.1
9.09
1.19
7.1
63-7
915 0-100 | 81-2
52-4
28.8
70-0
8-19
8.2
65-2
May.
29.849
June
9LL
493
451
July.
July..
August..............
September...
119.
986-
OLF.
*894
•272
-734
8-76920'0 | 982.
[09.
8066900 | 189 L-88 880-0 | 102-
65.5
23.2
82-3
74.1
72-0
0.071| 92:3
73-8
75-6
17.2
October ...30 124 November
*739
876.
0-098| -728 0.085 | 91.1
72.3
18.8
86-1
67.3
18.8
**a[l[૭૦]
•171
*343
·837 30-001
| 0·100)
83-4
0-19
22.4
* X X 10 31 30
9.98
9.21
87.8
0.8
9.6
F-28
86-4
80-2
717
9-89 | 6-9L
818.
6-92 | 2010 | 801-
46.8
30.1
68.3
58.3
Year.
Date.
30-343 29-272-29-845 0·093 | 92-8
Dec. 30. July 14. |
1-68
53.1
76.2
Aug. Feb. 1
28.
56-8
0.99
8.
6.2
78:3
78.9.2 77-29.2
81-1
53.0
51:3
8.09
62.0
76:4
ins.
ins.
MIS.
0-524 0-112
0·540 0-116 0723 0-141 0-839 0-312
0:358
0-322
F8F0
0-325
0.566 0.30
1·014 0-602
998-0
2820
806-0 2-0 120 [
1101
6.82
+12
82.5
་་”
6-12
7.94
F-18
78.1
77-4
75-0
67.3
9.29
1035
0-666
0·985 0-480
0874
0922 0271 0:564
0.785! 0-260
0,633
0.103
8.5
82.5
8.5
8:3
62-9
55-2
71-4
66-3
July.
14.
Dec.
21.
9.8
0.01
1.29
6F2.0
FF8.0
1:071) 0-103 0-615
C
9
IV. GENERAL REMARKS.
During 1925 the Colony was entirely free from epidemic disease. There were sporadic cases of small-pox during the first six months of the year the highest number, 16, being notified during the month of March.
Plague. The Colony was again entirely free from plague both human and in rodents.
Cholera-Two cases of cholera were landed off a Messageries Maritimes steamer coming from Northern Ports. The cases were treated at Kennedy Town Hospital. Both were fatal.
Malaria.-As in former years the members of the Police Force recruited from Wei-hai-wei were severe sufferers from malaria. These men come from a non malarial country and when stationed in malarial districts in the New Territories fall an easy prey. They are all made to take prophylactic doses of quinine throughout the rainy season but this does not protect them.
Effect of the strike. The routine of the hospitals was much dislocated by the strike. During the early days of the trouble the complete staff remained on duty but after the payment of the June wages a number of cooks, ward-boys and coolies left.
The following figures shew the numbers who remained on duty and of those who left at the various Government Hospitals.
Civil Hospital.
Ward-boys. Coolies. Cooks.
Lunatic Asylum,
Ward-boys. Coolies. Cooks.
Victoria Hospital.
Ward-boys. Coolies.
Cooks.
Kennedy Town Hospital.
Ward-boys. Coolies. Cooks
Remained.
751
2 2 2
සය H
000
Left.
26
23
410
JNA
0
1
2
1
183