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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 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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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 1910, 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 1910, 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%