London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wandsworth 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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| Temperature in Centegrade degrees. | Total Solid Matter. | Organic Carbon. | Organic Nitrogen. | Ammonia. | Nitrogen as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Nitrogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | Proportional amount of Organic elements, that in the Kent Companies Water during the 9 years ending 1870 being taken as unity. | Number of Microbe Colonies developed in each cubic centimetre of water. | Number of days' supply contained in storage reservoirs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Thames Water (uufiltered) | 10.4 | .29.81 | .274 | .043 | .009 | .223 | .273 | 1.8 | 20.1 | 5.4 | 16138 | .. |
| Southwark and Yauxhall | 11.7 | 28.45 | .167 | .021 | .. | .230 | .250 | 1.8 | 19.9 | 3.2 | 80 | 41 |
| Lambeth | 11.1 | 29.12 | .168 | .023 | .. | .246 | .269 | 1.8 | 20.0 | 3.2 | 75 | 5.6 |