Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Source of supply | Number of samples | After Treatment | |||||
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Agar plate count per ml. | Coliform count | E. coli count | |||||
20-24 hours at 37 °C. | 3 days at 22 °C. | Per cent. samples negative in 100 ml. | Per cent. samples negative in 100 ml. | ||||
Barn Elms | 516 | 5.3 | — | 99.03 | 100.0 | ||
Ashford Common | 257 | 18.0 | — | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||
Kempton Park | 515 | 15.5 | — | 99.8 | 100.0 | ||
Hampton | 976 | 6.7 | — | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Complaints received | 536 |
Dwellings | 342 |
Business premises | 184 |
Rats | 272 |
Mice | 264 |
Blocks surveyed | 37 |
Premises involved | 1,091 |
Premises disinfested | 519 |
Black rats | 4 |
Brown rats | 243 |
Mice | 272 |
Treatments carried out | 1,745 |
Readings from Deposit Gauges and Other Apparatus for Measuring
Air Pollution
Site | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. |
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' ' ... Insoluble Matter—Tons per sq. mile (collected in deposit gauges) | ||||||||||||
N.L. | 15.43 | 5.94 | 18.17 | 13.76 | 6.51 | 14.51 | 7.97 | 9.12 | 4.17 | 12.38 | 15.28 | 21.58 |
T.H. | 17.78 | 23.64 | 24.88 | 12.89 | 6.65 | 5.65 | 6.91 | 8.15 | 1.96 | 16.12 | 9.77 | 9.84 |
N.L. | 8.87 | 3.94 | 7.23 | 6.85 | 4.16 | 5.09 | 3.89 | 3.85 | 1.78 | 7.42 | 9.77 | 9.13 |
T.H. | 10.43 | 3.08 | 10.83 | 7.32 | 5.75 | 6.87 | 5.36 | 7.71 | 2.29 | 11.36 | 10.05 | 12.29 |
N.L. | 5.27 | 4 36 | 2.38 | 1.98 | 0.99 | 0.92 | 0.85 | 0.92 | 0.90 | 2.12 | 3.82 | 4.12 |
T.H. | 8.24 | 7.66 | 5.06 | 3.80 | 2.60 | 2.40 | 1.81 | 2.32 | 2.80 | 4.68 | 7.00 | 5.54 |
E.R. | 7.38 | 6.56 | 4.19 | 3.37 | 2.40 | 1.58 | 1.47 | 1.98 | 2.96 | 4.37 | 5.27 | 3.93 |
T.H. | 47 | 29 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 | T | 5 | 16 | 39 | 24 |
G.P. | 53 | 36 | 29 | 17 | — | 7 | 5 | T* | 7 | 12 | 44 | 28 |
T.H. | 24 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 12 |
G.P. | 21 | 21 | 21 | 9 | - | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 10 |
* T Less than 0.05 milligrams of smoke per 100 cubic metres of air.