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 Paddington]
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TABLE C.
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. | Proportion of Organic Impurity. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maximum. | Minimum. 1 | Average. * | |||||
West Middlesex | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 2.3 | 4.2 |
Grand Junction | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6.4 | 2.4 | 3.8 |
Lambeth | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 2.2 | 4.1 |
Chelsea | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 2.3 | 3.9 |
Southwark | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 2.8 | 4.5 |
New River | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 2 .9 |
East London | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
Kent | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
Colne Valley | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.5 |
Tottenham | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
* The average yearly amount of organic elements (organic carbon
and organic nitrogen) found in the water supplied by the Kent Company,
during the nine years ending 1876, is, for purposes of comparison, taken
as the unit.