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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.
In 1,953 out of a total of 2,486 houses inspected, or 78.55 per
cent., sanitary defects necessitating the service of an intimation
notice were found.
The highest percentage was in the Clapham North Ward,
where the percentage was 93.25, and the lowest in Southfield,
where it was only 44.48, the next lowest being Putney, where it
was 60.10.
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 1911.
TABLE LXXXIII.
Percentage to total living in one, two, three or four rooms and upwards.
Wards.
One room.
Two rooms.
Three rooms.
Four rooms
and upwards.
Clapham, North
9.5
19.8
11.4
59.3
Clapham, South
8.0
22.7
28.6
40.7
Putney
1.0
5.5
38.5
55.0
Streatham
9.6
19.2
27.1
44.1
Balham
9.7
18.6
27.3
44.4
Tooting
3.1
4.8
33.3
58.3
Southfield
6.9
3.3
15.9
73.9
Fairfield
19.0
12.2
22.0
46.8
Springfield
11.7
10.5
20.4
57.4
Whole Borough
87
14.8
25.2 \
51.3