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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 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE A.
Number of occasions when moving organisms were found in the
Water sup-plied by the undermentioned Companies:—
1869
1870
1871
18721873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
Kent
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
West
Middlesex
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
New River
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
East London
4
3
3
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
Chelsea
3
2
2
3
2
5
4
4
1
0.
2
0
0
0
Grand
Junction
4
1
1
2
3
5
7
3
3
3
1
3
3
0
Lambeth
5
0
4
6
3
4
5
4
1
1
0
2
1
1
Southwark
8
1
4
1
2
5
5
7
5
3
0
0
0
0
Colne Valley
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
0
0
0
0
Tottenham
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
0
0
0
0
The sediment deposited by turbid water on standing, when examined by the
microscope, is almost always found to contain numbers of living and moving
organisms.