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.

by George Michael James Giles

The tables given on [pages 92, 93], compiled from Hann’s “Klimatologie” include some of the better-known sites in South America, but it will be observed that we are wofully wanting in detailed information as to places in the interior, by far the majority being places on the coast.

The small variation and remarkable uniformity of temperature in places spread over so large an area, when situated at all near the same level above the sea, is very remarkable, as also is the fact that nothing approaching the excessive temperature of Africa, the other great Southern Peninsula, is to be met with here.

Guiana, Venezuela, and the other countries of the north and north-eastern coasts, are no doubt steamy and unhealthy, but the greater part of Brazil seems to possess a climate by no means prohibitive of European energy, though doubtless the deltas of the great rivers, like similar situations elsewhere, are best avoided from the point of view of health.

Tables of the rainfall of a few places in each of the regions included in the preceding table will be found below:—

Rainfall in Places on N. and N.E. Coast, South America.
Place	Cartagena, Colombia		Caracas, Venezuela (3,000 ft.)		George Town, Brit. Guiana		Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana		Cayenne, French Guiana		Para, Brazil
Month	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.
January	0	0	0·37	9	6·92	176	9·93	252	14·23	361	11·97	303
February	0	0	0·33	8	4·88	124	6·12	155	12·43	316	11·02	280
March	0·19	5	0·28	7	5·42	138	7·48	190	15·53	394	12·98	329
April	0·13	3	1·03	26	6·43	163	9·82	249	15·16	385	13·37	340
May	5·18	132	2·17	55	10·95	279	11·97	304	19·25	489	7·64	194
June	4·83	124	4·57	116	11·96	303	11·88	300	14·84	377	4·18	106
July	3·12	79	4·82	122	9·07	230	9·27	235	6·64	169	2·78	71
August	5·0	127	3·63	92	7·02	178	7·08	180	2·68	68	2·04	52
September	7·23	184	5·37	136	2·60	66	2·68	68	1·12	28	2·63	67
October	10·95	279	5·02	128	2·38	60	2·83	72	1·33	34	2·44	62
November	5·37	136	2·60	66	5·68	144	4·03	102	4·72	120	3·52	90
December	0·98	25	1·03	26	10·92	277	9·48	241	10·64	270	5·08	129
Year	43·67	1,094	31·14	791	84·23	2,138	92·43	2,348	118·53	3,011	79·64	2,023

Rainfall, Western Littoral-Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Place	Medellin, Colombia		Quito, Ecuador		Lima, Peru		Iquitos, East Slope of Andes		Salta, Peru		Tucuman, Peru
Month	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.
January	2·18	55	3·24	82	0·07	1	10·24	260	5·68	144	7·38	187
February	2·52	64	3·88	99	0	0	9·83	250	5·44	138	6·63	168
March	5·28	134	4·84	123	0	0	12·24	311	4·64	118	6·27	159
April	6·93	176	6·95	177	0	0	6·48	165	0·92	23	1·78	45
May	7·77	197	4·62	117	0·13	3	10·00	254	0·37	9	1·14	29
June	6·62	168	1·33	34	0·37	9	7·43	189	0·03	1	0·52	13
July	4·13	105	1·08	27	0·39	10	6·53	167	0	0	0·52	13
August	5·13	130	2·22	56	0·33	8	4·62	117	0·07	2	0·23	6
September	6·42	163	2·57	65	0·27	7	8·70	221	0·27	7	0·63	16
October	7·37	187	3·87	98	0·13	3	7·24	184	0·48	12	3·14	79
November	5·87	149	3·97	101	0	0	8·52	216	1·88	48	4·33	110
December	2·67	68	3·57	91	0	0	11·47	291	2·93	74	5·75	146
Year	62·88	1,596	42·13	1,070	1·64	41	103·33	2,625	22·64	575	38·23	971

Rainfall, Interior and East Coast.
Place	Merida, Yucatan— Interior		Manaos, Brazil— Interior		Cuyaba, Brazil— Interior		Pernambuco, Coast, Brazil		Bahia, Coast, Brazil		Rio Janeiro, Coast, Brazil
Month	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.	Ins.	Mm.
January	1·02	26	9·37	238	10·03	255	4·34	110	3·58	91	4·68	119
February	0·53	13	9·84	250	8·58	218	5·98	152	3·43	87	4·34	110
March	0·70	1	11·88	301	8·70	221	5·92	150	7·87	200	5·38	137
April	0·17	4	13·08	332	3·52	90	10·96	277	14·34	364	4·57	116
May	0·96	24	7·33	186	2·14	54	14·81	378	12·28	312	3·63	92
June	5·88	149	6·02	153	0·72	18	15·18	386	11·54	293	1·85	47
July	3·86	98	2·88	72	0·34	8	28·27	718	8·98	228	1·64	41
August	7·76	197	2·40	61	0·37	9	12·60	320	4·93	125	1·85	47
September	4·50	114	1·74	44	3·63	92	6·83	173	3·15	80	2·28	58
October	2·95	75	4·13	105	4·27	108	1·03	26	4·88	124	3·08	78
November	4·12	104	7·65	194	7·68	195	1·14	29	6·83	173	4·28	109
December	1·24	31	10·48	266	8·67	220	2·04	52	3·63	92	5·43	138
Year	33·86	860	85·12	2,202	59·00	1,498	117·00	2,971	85·39	2,169	43·00	1,091

Bermuda

(St. George), lat. 32° 22′ N., long. 64° 30′ W.—This group of Islands is becoming a favourite health resort with Americans, who are able in a couple of days (600 sea miles) to exchange the turmoil of Wall Street for the holy calm of the Atlantic. The climate is extremely pleasant, without being too relaxing, the mean temperature of the year being 69·4° F. (20·7° C).

Jan.	April	August	October
62° F. (16·6° C.)	64° F. (17·8° C.)	79° F. (26·2° C.)	69·5° F. (20·7° C.)