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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
Wandsworth 1894
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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Averages of the Monthly Analyses of Water in 1894.
| Temperature in Centegrade degrees. | Total Solid Matter. | Organic Carbon. | Organic Nitrogen | Ammonia. | Nitrogen as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Nitrogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | Proportional amount of Organic elements, that in the Kent Companies Water during the 9 years ending 1876 being taken as unity. | Number of Microbe Colonies developed in each cubic centimetre of water. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Thames Water (unfiltered) | 11.7 | 30.09 | .306 | .051 | .018 | .217 | .276 | 1.9 | 19.2 | 6.06 | 10708 |
| Southwark and Yauxhall | 12.6 | 28.32 | .217 | .027 | .. | .216 | .242 | 1.9 | 18.9 | 4.1 | 87 |
| Lambeth | 11.9 | 28.46 | .226 | .023 | .. | .229 | .252 | 1.9 | 19.6 | 4.2 | 50 |