VOL. XVIII. (2) CLIMATE & TOPOGRAPHY, CHELTENHAM I37 



THE CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY OF 

 CHELTENHAM AND ITS NEAR NEIGHBOURHOOD 



BY 

 J. H. GARRETT, M.D., P.L.S. 



Medical Officer of Health for Cheltenham. 



By the aid of instruments for the measurement of tem- 

 perature, of bright sunshine, of rainfaU and the humidity of 

 the atmosphere, and of the atmospheric pressure, we acquamt 

 ourselves in a scientific way with any differences in these 

 particulars that pertain to change of season, or position upon 

 the earth's surface, and we thus arrive at the mam facts of 

 climate so far as these admit of exact measurement and 

 statement. 



I give below some figures taken or deduced from the 

 records of the late Mr R. Tyrer and Mr A. C. Saxby, which 

 have been published in my Annual Health Reports, and, 

 further on, others from the summarised records published by 

 the Meteorological Office at South Kensington. 



The following is a statistical table giving the normals 

 derived from the records of 35 years (1878-1912) of atmos- 

 pheric pressure, air temperatures, humidity and ramfall for 

 Cheltenham. 



