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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 1904

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904

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Table: TABLE L. Giving number of infected houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throughout the Borough during 1904, and throughout the old Parish during ten years (1891-1900).

TABLE L. Giving number of infected houses, with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains, throughout the Borough during 1904, and throughout the old Parish during ten years (1891-1900).

189118921893189418951896
Number of Infected Houses141724303179201221112417
Number of Houses with defects found903 =63.7%1474 =60.7%1641 =15.6%1089 =54.1%993 =47.04%1177 =48.7%
Number of Houses with defective drains found316 =22.3%720 =24.7%658 =20.6%464 =23.06%392 =18.6%423 =17.5%
Number of Houses with no defects found514 =36.3%956 =39.3%1538 =48.4%923 =45.9%1118 =52.96%1240 =51.3%

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N.B.—Only 12.1 per cent. of the houses in 1904 showed, with the test, defective drains, no results being obtained
in the other cases.