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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

Lambeth 1909

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909

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Table: TABLE L. Giving number of Infected Houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throrgout the Borough during 1909, and throughout the old Parish during ten years 1891-1900.

TABLE L. Giving number of Infected Houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throrgout the Borough during 1909, and throughout the old Parish during ten years 1891-1900.

189118921893189 418951896
Number of Infected Houses111724303179201221112417
N umber of Houses with defects9031474164110899951177
found= 63.7%=60.7%= 15.6%= 54.1%= 47.04%= 48.7%
Number of Houses with de-316720658464392423
fective drains found= 22.3%= 24. 7%= 20.6%= 23.06%= 18.6%= 17.5%
Number of Houses with no514956153892311181240
defects found= 36.3%=89.3%=48.4%= 45.9%= 52.96%=51.3%