Observations on the influenza, or epidemic catarrh : as it appeared in Bristol and its environs, during the months of May and June, 1782. To which is added, a meteorological journal of the weather / by A. Broughton.

  • Arthur Broughton
Date:
[1782?]
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Credit: Observations on the influenza, or epidemic catarrh : as it appeared in Bristol and its environs, during the months of May and June, 1782. To which is added, a meteorological journal of the weather / by A. Broughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Remarks in the Month of April, Created height of the Thermometer, 12th day at noon 64 deg. Leall height ditto, difF. days, at 8 A. M, 40 Mean* ditto, 45.68 Created height of the Barometer, 8th day at 8 A. M. 30.12 Leall height ditto, ift day at 8 P. M. 28.40 Mean ditto, 29.85 Quantity of Rain (inches) 3.38 This month, for the moll part, was cloudy and difagreeable; Rain part of 17 days; 2 days of fnow, and not one day fair. The wind variable,—chiefly from the North and Eaft. * The mean heights are not taken from the figures inferied in thefe Excrafts, but from the mean of four daily obfervatious. ■flie figures in the column of winds, (from i to 6) denote the degree of ftrength ; i being a gentle breeze, 6 a very Ihong wind. 1782 1 May H Ther. Bar. ] Winds. J 8 'to E N £ Q 'i 49 N. E. 2 2 8 44 —.02 N. E. X 4 48 N. E.2 3 8 45-5 -.87 E. 1 4 48 — .82 N.E. 1 4 8 45 —•75 N.E.i 4 52 —.70 .5 8 42 —•73 N.N. E.2 e 4 49 —.71 8 4 44 46.5 —81 —.82 N.2 7 8 48 —97 N. 1 4 5» -98 N, W. 1 8 8 48.5 —94 S. E. 2 4 52 —.81 9 8 48 -.56 S. E.3 4 55 —54 in 8 51-5 —64 E. S. E. 2 4 55 —66 S. W.2 11 8 52 —57 S.4 4 50 —5^ 12 8 53-3 —49 S. W. 4 4 54 —•53 J3 8 53 56 —68 S. W. 4 4 —•71 S.4 8 54 —.50 E. S. E. 3 4 56 —.40 S. 2 »5 8 55 —•45 S.5 :6 4 57 —43 S.S. W.4 8 4 54 54 —.42 —48 S. W. 3 Weather and Phenomena. Froily morning, fair, var. Cloudy Cloudy all day Var. moftly cloudly Ditto Cloudy Ditto, rain at noon Cloudy all day Fair morning, afterwards cloudy Cloudy all day Var. fmall rain Cloudy Rainy mod part of the day y Var. with thunder ftorms Cloudy, rain Var. Rainy moll of the day Variable, with rain IVIoflly cloudy, fomc (howers