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108 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.
The total number of houses in which any sanitary defect was
found was 2,744 or 52.57 of the total inspected. The highest
percentage was in Balham, where 79.79 Per cent, had sanitary
defects, and the next in Streatham with 76.49 per cent., Southfield,
in Wandsworth, had the lowest percentage, viz.:—27 44, the
next lowest being Putney with 35.59 per cent.
The number of families living in one room and the total
families were as follows, Clapham North 134 out of 1,232, or 10.8
per cent; Clapham South 12 out of 771, or 1.5 per cent.; Putney
4 out of 721, or '55 per cent.; Streatham 9 out of 262, or 3.4 per
cent.; Balham 57 out of 1,334 or 4.2 per cent: ; Tooting 6 out of
372, or l.6 per cent.; Southfield 21 out of 835, or 2 5 per cent.;
Fairfield 53 out of 611, or 8.6 per cent.; and Springfield 61 out of
577, or 10.5 per cent.; while in the Borough as a whole 357
families out of a total of 6,732 lived in one room, or a percentage
of 5.3.
The reason of the high percentage in Clapham North was
due to the fact that during the year nearly all the streets likely
to be occupied by persons living in one or two rooms were
inspected, such as Rashleigh Street, Clifton Street, Nelson's Row,
and Crescent Road. In Springfield Ward, Wandsworth the high
percentage was due to the inspection of Wardley Street and
Bendon Valley.