London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
| Temperature in Centegrade degrees. | Total Solid Matter. | Oiganic Carbon. | Organic Nitrogen. | Ammonia. | Nitrogen as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Nitrogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | Proportional amount of Organic elements, that in the Kent Companies Water during the 9 years ending 1876 being taken as unity. | Number of Microbe Colonies developed in each cubic centimetre of water. | Number of days'supply contained in storage reservoirs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Thames "Water (unfiltered) | 11.9 | 29.93 | .286 | .048 | .009 | .209 | .265 | 1.9 | 20.2 | 5.7 | 24107 | .. |
| Southwark and Vauxhall | 12.9 | 28.54 | .178 | .025 | .. | .204 | .229 | 1.8 | 20.0 | 3.5 | 432 | 4.1 |
| Lambeth | 12.2 | 29.14 | .179 | .027 | .. | .228 | .255 | 1.9 | 20.4 | 3.5 | 47 | 6.0 |