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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 147
The Tables of house-to-house inspections which follow show
the names of the streets and the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, the percentage of
defects to houses inspected, as well as the number of families
living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
In 3,303 out of a total of 5,575 houses inspected, or 59.24 per
cent., sanitary defects necessitating the service of an intimation
notice were found.
The highest percentage was in the Streatham Ward, where
the percentage was 72.02, and the lowest in Southfield Ward,
where it was only 42.97, the next lowest being Clapham North
Ward, where it was 48.40.
The following Table, which is prepared from the figures given
in the summary, shows the percentage to total number of families
of those living in one, two, three or four rooms and upwards, in
the separate Wards and in the whole Borough, in the premises
Inspected in 1908.