Table 2.

Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the number of people infected with autochthonous malaria recorded in the antimalarial dispensaries and the regional meteorological variables for the period of 1931–1949

Region	Spring precipitation	Summer precipitation	Mean spring temperature	Mean summer temperature
Western Andalusia	0.258	0.145	0.072	0.325
Extremadura	0.0001	0.182	− 0.018	0.281
Murcia	− 0.537	0.346	− 0.446	0.187

No data are available on the number of infected people for the period of 1933–1935)