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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Tables of house-to-house inspections which follow show
the names of the streets and the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, the percentage of
defects to houses inspected, as well as the number of families
living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
A summary is also given showing these details for the whole
Borough and for each ward in the Borough.
In column 3 of the summary where the percentage of defects
to houses examined is given, the highest percentage existed in
the Streatham ward, and the next in the Fairfield ward. The
high percentage in the Streatham ward is due to the large number
of sanitary defects found to exist in Wellfield Road, Ellison Road,
and New Park Road, while in the Fairfield ward it was due to the
large percentage in Ferrier Street, and Handel Street.
The lowest percentage was in Southfields and Putney wards.
The percentage of persons living in one room to the total
families inspected was as follows:—Clapham North, 7.9;
Clapham South, 8.7; Putney, 1.0; Streatham, 6.5; Balham, 7.3;
Tooting, 3.9; Southfields, 7.2; Fairfield, 7.6; Springfield, 6.6;
and in the whole Borough, 6.3.