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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 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: TABLE L. Giving number of Infected Houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throughout the Borough during 1907, 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, throughout the Borough during 1907, and throughout the old Parish during ten years (1891-1900).

189118921893189418951896
Number of Infected Houses141724303179201221112417
Number of Houses with defects found9031474164110899931177
= 63.7%=60.7%= 15.6%= 54.1%= 47.04%= 48.7%
Number of Houses with defective drains found316720658464392423
= 22.3%=24.7%= 20.6%= 23.06%= 18.6%= 17.5%
Number of Houses with no defects found514956153892311181240
=36.3%=39.3%= 48.4%=45.9%= 52.96%= 51.3%
N.B.—Only 11.03 per cent, of the houses in 1907 shewed, with the test, defective drains, no results being obtained in the other cases.