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.
Giving number of Infected Houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throughout the Borough during 1908, 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 = 15.6% | 1089 = 54.1% | 993 =47.04% | 1177 =48.7% |
Number of Houses with defective dr:iins 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 9.2 per cent, of the houses in 1908, shewed, with the test, defective drains, no
results being obtained therefrom in the other cases.