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In the case of each infected house, an inspection was
made, and the drains, and sanitary fittings tested, with the
results that of the 2111 infected houses—
(a) 392 (i.e., 18.6 %) were found to have defective drains.
(b) 993 (i.e., 47.04%) were found to have defective
drains, or defective traps, fittings, and appliances.
(c) 1118 (i.e., 52.96%) gave no result with the tests.
(d) 601 (i.e., 28.5%) were found to have defective traps
fittings, and appliances, but not defective drains.
Sub-divided according to the different notifiable diseases,
the results are as follows:—
Disease.
No. of Infected
Houses.
Numbers shewing
Defects as to
Percentage
shewing
Total Defects.
Percentage
giving no
Results.
Drains.
Traps, Fittings
and Appliances
only.
Total.
Smallpox
41
10
12
22
53.7
46.3
Cholera*
12
6
0
6
50.0
50.0
Diphtheria
498
99
137
236
47.4
52.6
Membranous Croup
22
3
5
8
36.4
63.6
Erysipelas
250
33
75
108
43.2
56.8
Scarlet Fever
1065
184
301
485
45.5
54.5
(Typhus
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
Typhoid
187
48
61
109
58.3
41.7
Continued or Relapsing
20
6
4
10
50.0
50.0
Puerperal
16
3
6
9
56.3
43.7
2111
392
601
993
47.04
52.96
*These were in all probability cases of Diarrhoea or Cholera Nostras.
It will be noted that 18.6% of the infected houses
shewed, with the test, defective drains, and 28.5% defective
traps, fittings, and appliances.
Table K gives the average percentages for the last 4
years (i.e., practically from the introduction of the Notification
Act), and it will be noted with satisfaction, in regard
to infected houses in Lambeth, that the year 1895 is 22.2%
below the average in respect of defective drains, and
18.5% below the average in respect of defective traps,
fittings, and appliances.