Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1902
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TABLE L. Giving number of infected houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throughout the Borough during 1902, and throughout the old Parish during ten years (1891-1900).
1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | |
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Number of Infected Houses | 1417 | 2430 | 3179 | 2012 | 2111 | 2417 |
Number of Houses with defects found | 903 =63.7% | 1474 =60.7% | 1641 =51.6% | 1089 =54.1% | 993 =47.04% | 1177 =48.7% |
Number of Houses with defective drains found | 316 =22.3% | 720 =24.7% | 658 =20.6% | 464 =23.06% | 392 =18.6% | 423 =17.5% |
Number of Houses with no defects found | 514 =36.3% | 956 =39.3% | 1538 =48.4% | 923 =45.9% | 1118 =52.96% | 1240 51.3% |
N.B.—Only 12.02 per cent. of the houses in 1902 showed, with the test, defective drains, no results being obtained
in the other cases.