Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE L—continued. 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).
1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Average for ten years 1891-1900. | 1907 | |
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Number of Infected Houses | 2374 | 2094 | 2435 | 1992 | 2246.1 | 1922 |
Number of Houses with defects found | 1210 | 1044 | 1168 | 886 | 1158-0 | 1248 |
= 50.9% | =49.9% | =47.5% | = 44.5% | = 51.6% | = 64.9% | |
Number of Houses with defective drains found | 390 | 351 | 384 | 285 | 438-3 | 212 |
= 16.4% | = 16.9% | = 15.8% | = 14.3% | = 19.5% | = 11.03% | |
Number of Houses with no defccts found | 1164 | 1050 | 1272 | 1106 | 1088 1 | 674 |
=49.1% | = 50.1% | = 52.5% | = 55.5% | =48.4% | = 35.1% | |
N.B.—Only 1103 per cent, of the houses in 1907 shewed, with the test, defective drains, no results being obtained in the other cases. |
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.