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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
Lambeth 1894
The annual report on vital and sanitary statistics, 1894
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No. 8.
Sample of Residual Sewage taken from Walnut Tree Walk
Sewer on June 28th.
80th June, 1894.
Certificate of Analysis of Sewage received from Chief Inspector
Baxter, Lambeth, on 28th June, 1894 (Walnut Tree Walk Sewer).
This Sewage contains 2.05 per cent. of Sulphuretted
Hydrogen by volume, thus indicating the
entrance of some trade refuse or other matter
than ordinary Sewage.
No. 9.
Sample of Residual Sewage taken from Paradise Road Sewer
on May 28th.
30th Jnne, 1894.
Certificate of Analysis of Sewage received from Chief Inspector
Baxter, Lambeth, on 28th June, 1894 (Paradise Road Sewer).
This Sewage contains 0.38 per cent. by volume of
Sulphuretted Hydrogen.