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
The geographic and climatological data in Part II are given here as
printed in the source document. In general they do not appear to be
very reliable (see also the first paragraphs of Part II, Section II
and the author’s remarks with some of the individual tables). There
are inconsistencies in the data, and the conversion from degrees
Fahrenheit to Celsius (or vice versa) and from inches to millimetres
(or vice versa) has apparently not always been done with the same
conversion factors or accuracy. Only obvious typographical errors in
the data (where the location of the error could be identified) have
been changed; see below under Changes. Similarly, the results of
calculations (such as sums and means) do not always agree with the
data on which they are supposed to be based; here, too, corrections
have only been made in case of obvious typographical errors where the
location of the error could be identified. A good deal of caution in
using the data is advisable.
Figures 3 and 12 are (apart from the caption) identical in the source
document.
Page I-57 and index: Cgaleka is possibly a typographical error for
Chaleka or Chalekah
Part II, Errata: the errata have already been corrected in the text.
Page II-74 and index, C. Boliano: probably Cape Bolinao; Baryermassing
possibly Banyermassing (Banjarmasin, although that is on Borneo rather
than on Sumatra).
Page II-91, table Molendo, monthly rainfall for June should probable
read 0·06 Ins.
Page II-100 and 101: data have not been corrected.
Page II-103, entry Hann’s Klimatologie: there are no pages iii. or iv.
in the second part.
Changes made
Some obvious minor typographical errors have been corrected silently.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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