Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology: A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.Giles, George Michael James
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Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology: A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.
Giles, George Michael James
Hygiene -- Popular works; Medical climatology; Tropical medicine
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Month | RANGOON, near Coast. | MANDALAY, Inland. |
| Lat. 16° 30′ N. | Lat. 22° N. |
+------------------------+------------------------+
| Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean |
|Monthly|Monthly| Monthly|Monthly|Monthly|Monthly |
|Maxima |Minima |Rainfall|Maxima |Minima |Rainfall|
---------+-------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+
January | 89·1 | 64·2 | 0·11 | 84·1 | 56·0 | 0·06 |
February | 92·8 | 65·9 | 0·23 | 89·9 | 60·1 | 0·08 |
March | 96·6 | 71·1 | 0·16 | 97·7 | 67·9 | 0·21 |
April | 98·6 | 76·2 | 1·74 | 102·3 | 77·8 | 1·19 |
May | 91·9 | 77·3 | 11·73 | 99·0 | 79·0 | 5·26 |
June | 86·5 | 76·5 | 18·30 | 95·0 | 78·5 | 5·71 |
July | 85·3 | 75·8 | 21·37 | 94·2 | 78·4 | 3·26 |
August | 85·1 | 75·7 | 19·65 | 93·3 | 77·6 | 4·16 |
September| 85·7 | 75·9 | 15·89 | 92·8 | 76·9 | 6·21 |
October | 87·7 | 75·6 | 7·12 | 91·8 | 74·8 | 4·54 |
November | 87·6 | 72·3 | 2·52 | 86·7 | 67·2 | 1·67 |
December | 87·3 | 67·3 | 0·07 | 82·3 | 59·3 | 0·28 |
---------+-------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+
Year | 89·5 | 72·8 | 98·89 | 92·4 | 71·1 | 32·63 |
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Month |BHAMO, Chinese Frontier.
| Lat. 24° 20′ N.
+------------------------
| Mean | Mean | Mean
|Monthly|Monthly|Monthly
|Maxima |Minima |Rainfall
---------+-------+-------+--------
January | 77·2 | 48·5 | 0·71
February | 82·2 | 53·1 | 0·39
March | 89·0 | 60·1 | 0·69
April | 93·9 | 67·6 | 1·65
May | 93·7 | 72·7 | 6·15
June | 90·5 | 74·9 | 13·35
July | 87·8 | 75·1 | 19·17
August | 88·1 | 75·4 | 16·40
September| 90·1 | 74·5 | 8·79
October | 88·5 | 69·6 | 3·47
November | 81·8 | 59·2 | 0·93
December | 76·3 | 50·7 | 0·44
---------+-------+-------+--------
Year | 82·6 | 65·1 | 72·14
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Conditions of space make it difficult here to express the data in both
scales, accordingly the English scale only is given. The higher rainfall
of Bhamo as compared with Mandalay is attributable to its proximity to
the great range of hills which divide Burmah from China.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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