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

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

1897189818991900Average for ten years 1891-1900.1909
Number of Infected Houses23742094243519922246.11577
Number of Houses with defects1210104411638861158.0955
found=50.9%= 49.9%=47.5%= 44.5%=5.6%=60.6%
Number of Houses with de-390351384285438 3112
fective drains found= 16.4%= 16.9%= 15.8%= 14.3%= 19.5%=7.1%
Number of Houses with no11641050127211061088.1622
defects fo.und=49.1%= 50.1%= 52.5%=55.5%=48.4%=39.4%

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N.B.—Only 7.1 per cent. of the houses in 1909 shewed, with the test, defective drains, no.
results being obtained therefrom in the other cases.