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Reference --
C.O./133
shows the most
158.
-healthy state of the climate in Hongkong, and exhibits the range and
variations
of the Thermometer during the six
hottest mouths in the year 1852.
Average daily
variation
Months reading of Clermont Average vare
Greatest
variation
Sioon. Fight. in 24 hours.
Noon. Night.
Morning Noon
May. June.
81.96 60:29 4:00 21:96 84.26 73.89 2:66
30°
10:20
29*
July.
|
16.
147
6.90
12.
18*
Do D
:
85.28 73.51 2:14 11:60
August. 84.58 75:93 1:42 8:58
September. 84.30 76:70 1:80 October 79.00 68:00 2:00 12:83
Mean temperature of the day } 83. 23
in the summer of 1852.
night Dr.
71:38
It thus appears that the highest range
in July and September; that the
May,
most extreme vicissitudes occurred in
Jund and October ; and the least to in September when the heat of the nights approximated_ nearest to that of the days. It is, moreover, shown that the most disease does not
of heat was in
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prevail at the periods of the most excessive
but during the intensest nocturnal
transitions, but.
temperature.
May,
Rain fell through the greater part of
and the S. W. wind prevailed during
the latter half. In June there
rain, and
wad
much
- four days of thunder and lightning, when the wind was in the Es. In the latter
was much rain, and
part of this month there was
the
wind was in the DS. W. There
was rain
also in July until the end of September, when it became fine and continued to, with occasional showon, through October and November; during the last two months the NE. winds prevailed, with occasional breaks of S.WV., E. and
and August, and it continued
N. winds.
It is
to accribe
very
- undoubtedly only reasonable much of the improvement in
the health of the troops during the last two year to circumstances in which human