WEATHER CONDITIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 16

WEATHER CONDITIONS

EFFECT ON F'UBLIC HEALTH EXAMINATION OF RECORDS [by telegraph—press association] CHRISTCHTJRCH, Monday Reference to the increasing importance of meteorology in relation to public health was made by Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, district medical officer of health, when presiding at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Centre of the Royal Sanitary Institute. In suggesting that Mr. H. F. Skey, director of the magnetic observatory at Christchurch, should be asked to give an address to members, Dr. Telford said old meteorological records were being searched and examined in relation to the general conditions ruling at the time of the recordings. Such results were being investigated in regard to epidemics, their number and frequency. In a letter regretting his inability to attend previously to give an address on "Meteorology in Relation to Sanitation," Mr. Skey stated that the bearing of meteorology on sanitation was very important indeed. Dr. Phillips, he wrote, had gone into the question of meteorological influences on outbreaks of infantile paralysis, with the assistance of the observatory records. Humidity seemed to have been a correlated factor and Mr. Skey thought that that had since been demonstrated elsewhere.