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168 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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 4,385 out of a total qf 7,007 houses inspected, or 62.58 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 78.54, and the lowest in Southfield Ward,
where it was only 38.35, the next lowest being Clapham North
Ward, where it was 50.77.
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 1909.
TABLE LX1X.
Percentage to total living in one, two. three or four rooms and upwards.
Wards.
One room.
Two rooms.
Three rooms.
Four rooms
and upwards.
Clapham, North
9.8
l0.4
9.0
70.8
Clapham, South
9.3
12.5
33.'4
44.8
Putney
1.6
2.7
46.0
49.7
Streatham
7.8
11.9
25.7
54.6
Balham
8.2
17.7
26.4
47.7
Tooting
5.5
7.0
16.8
70.7
Southfield
4.0
4.5
33.8
57.7
Fairfield
8.9
8.3
33.4
49.4
Springfield
7.0
11.5
44.5
37.0
Whole Borough
7.3
10.3
27.5
54.9