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:
[1974]
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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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    __ 19?;i CLIMATE AND RATEABLE VALUE Latitude - 29 Degrees, 36 minutes, 4 seconds South Longtitude - 30 degrees, 22 minutes, 46 seconds East Altitude - At Churchill Square - 638,624 m. (2 160 ft.) TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL r RAINFALL f- “ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE 1 RELATIVE 1974 IN mm. (Measurement in inches bracketed) Av. Daily Maximum (Fahrenheit C F Av. Daily Minimum temperatures C F Avo Daily Mean in brackets) C F HUMIDITY Av. Daily % January 536,5 (21,14) 27,2 (8i,n 17,2 — (63,1) 22,3 (72,7) 81,6 February 117,3 ( 4,62) 27,2 (81,0) 17,8 (64,1) 23,3 (74,3) 81,2 March 24o,6 ( 9,85) 27,0 (80,6) 13,9 (60,6) 22,1 (71,9) 81,0 | April 95,2 ( 3,73) 22,3 (72,5) l12,3 (34,6) 18,7 (65,6) 79,2 May 28,6 ( 1,16) 21,1 (70,0) 7,8 (46,1) 13,0 (59,0) 78,0 t June 18,7 ( 0,69) 19,3 (67,1) 4,2 (39,6) 12,3 (54,2) 73,3 J July 25,6 ( 1,02) 20,8 (69,6) 3,8 (38,8) 11,7 (53,1) 81,2 | August 14,9 ( 0,60) 21,8 (71,3) 6,0 (42,9) 13,7. (60,3) 73,0 September 27,0 ( 1,06) 24,8 (76,4) 8,3 (47,2) 16,5 (6l,8) 58,5 October 28,6 ( 1,66) 26,3 (79,7) ] 13,0 (55,5) 20,3 (68,9) 67,3 November 133,4 ( 5,24) 24,2 (75,6) 12,3 (54,4) 20,3 (68,8) ; 80,8 December i . . ii r 171,1 6,70) 13,9 (78,6) 16,3 (61,4) 21,3 (70,3) j 83,2 ! TOTAL l RAINFALL 1472,8 (57,47) AREA OF MUNICIPALITY : l4 483 2291 Ha. Value of Rateable Property : R319 i4o 700 Exempted Property Rll4 730 0 0j 0- MUNICIPAL RATE : General : Land Buildings ; 2,33c. in 0,8 Co in Rand Rand : Water : Rate • 0,1 c, in Rand on Land only. Total Public Health Expenditure (R343 619), expressed as a percentage of net maintenance expenditure of Borough : 8,03% Page One