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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

Paddington 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE C.TABLE showing the efficiency of filtration of Thames and Lea water, also the maximum, minimum, and average proportions of organic impurity in the water delivered by the different Companies during the year1880.

TABLE C.

TABLE showing the efficiency of filtration of Thames and Lea water, also the maximum, minimum, and average proportions of organic impurity in the water delivered by the different Companies during the year1880.

Names of Companies and Sources.Number of occasions when clear and transparent.Number of occasions when slightly turbid.Number of occasions when turbid.Number of occasions when very turbid.Maximum.Minimum. *Average. *
Thames.
West Middlesex84008.42.24.8
Grand Junction65107.42.45.0
Lambeth75007.82.65.6
Chelsea111005.73.14.3
Southwark111007.93.05.9
Lea.
102006.01.73.6
East London102007.02.54.7
Deep Wells.
Kent120001.91.31.6
Colne Valley120001.61.11.4
Tottenham120002.61.41.8