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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 1897
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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TABLE M.
Giving number of infected houses with percentages of (1) General Defects, and (2) Defective Drains,
during 1897 and the Six preceding years.
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
Average
for last
6 years
1891-96
1897
Number of Infected Houses
1417
2430
3179
2012
2111
2417
2261
2374
Number of Houses with
defects found
903
=63.7%
1474
=60. 7%
1641
=51.6%
1089
=54.1%
993
=47.04%
1177
=48.7%
12128
=53.4%
1210
=50.9%
Number of Houses with
defective drains found
316
=22.3%
720
=24.7%
658
=20 .6%
464
=23.06%
392
=18.6%
423
=17.5%
495.5
=21.9%
390
=16.4%
Number of Houses with
no defects found
514
=36.3%
956
=39.3%
1538
=48.4%
923
=45.9%
1118
=52.96%
1240
=51.3%
1048.2
=46.5%
1164
=49.1%
N.B.—Only 17.3 per cent, of the houses showed with the test defective drains, no results
being obtained in the other cases.