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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 161
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 house inspected, as well as the number of families
living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
In 3,920 out of a total of 6,276 houses inspected, or 62.46 per
cent., sanitary defects necessitating the service of an intimation
notice were found.
The highest percentage was in the Streatham Ward, where
the percentage was 85.84, and the lowest in Clapham South,
where it was only 54.24, the next lowest being Clapham North
Ward, where it was 55.05.
The following Table, which is prepared from the figures
given in the summary, shows the percentage to total number of
families of those living in one, two, three, or four rooms and
upwards, in the separate Wards and in the whole Borough, in the
premises inspected in 1910.

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