Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health / City Council of Pretoria.

  • Pretoria (South Africa). Health Department.
Date:
[1955]
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    CITY COUNCIL OF PRETORIA FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health CLIMATIC DATA. Latitude: 25 degrees, 44 minutes, 3 seconds South. Longitude: 1 hour, 52 minutes, 48 seconds East. Mean Altitude: 4,480 feet. Temperature: (Statistics kindly supplied by the Director, Weather Bureau, Pretoria). Air Temperatures (“°C”). Mean Mean Highest Lowest Mean Relative Rainfall 1954: Max. °C. Min. °C. Reading of Max. °C. Reading of Min. °C. Humidity at 8 a.m. 2 p.m. % % Inches Days July. . . . 18.3 0.6 22.0 —4.0 63 21 0.0 m.m.) 0.0 d.m.) 0 August. . . . 21.6 4.5 25.9 —0.4 63 24 0.0 m.m.) 0.0 d.m.) 0 September . . . . . . 24.8 10.0 31.2 5.4 59 30 13.7 m.m.) 0.54 d.m.) 4 October. . . . 29.0 13.8 34.0 7.7 52 27 29.6 m.m.) 1.17 d.m.) 7 November .. . . . . 26.8 13.7 30.4 11.5 68 41 133.5 m.m.) 5.32 d.m.) 12 December . . . 1955: . . . 27.1 15.5 34.4 12.1 72 50 205.1 m.m.) 8.20 d.m.) 13 January . . . . 25.8 \ 15.9 29.7 12.9 82 59 221.2 m.m.) 8.83 d.m.) 19 February .... . . . . 24.9 15.7 28.5 12.4 84 61 169.0 m.m.) 6.75 d.m.) 15 March. . . . 24.5 12.7 29.2 7.3 75 48 61.7 m.m.) 2.46 d.m.) 6 April. . . . . 22.9 10.6 27.2 4.8 82 49 45.1 m.m.) 1.78 d.m.) 9 May. . . . 20.4 6.6 24.2 1.6 82 42 14 6 m.m.) 0.57 d.m.) 4 June. . . . 17.8 2.9 21.0 —2.4 83 37 22.5 m.m.) 0.89 d.m.) 2 AREA OF MUNICIPALITY. The area of Pretoria and suburbs, inclusive of Town Lands, is 70.73 square miles. The Town is built on and between three parallel ranges of quartzite hills running East and West, the soil in the valleys being largely shale. ANNUAL RATEABLE VALUES AS AT 30th JUNE, 1955. Land. £27,773,779 Buildings. 67,778,593 £95,552,372