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Posted By: Pete on: 01/22/2010 22:02:06 EDT
Subject: RE: The Schoolhouse Blizzard and the Signal Corps

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My understanding of the Army Medical Department role in the reporting of weather is that it was done because it was believed that weather is a factor in health and the outbreak of diseases--it wasn't really a thing field medical treatment facilities would put much effort into. A few years before the outbreak of the Civil war the chief surgeon of the U.S. Army Department of the Pacific solemnly reported to the Surgeon-General that insanity in California was prevalent because of the breezes blowing in from the Pacific Ocean!

The link below is to an article entitled "The Signal Service and Its Methods" in the March 1882 issue of "Manufacturer and Builder" magazine. It discusses some technical aspects of how Signal Service weather stations were configured and operated.

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Signal Service and Its Methods
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