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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 1883

[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 year1883.

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 year1883.

Names of Companies and Sources.Number of occasions when clear and transparent.Number of occasions when sightly turbid.Number of occasions when turbid.Number of occasions when very turbid.Proportion fo Organic Impurity.
Maximum.Minimum.Average.
West Middlesex111005.72.03.7
Grand Junction98005.32.43.4
Lambeth111005.72.03.6
Chelsea1110o4.72.03.1
Southwark75006.61.93.6
Lea.
New River120003.61.32.2
East London120005.01.92.9
Deep Wells.
Kent120001.50.91.1
Colne Valley120001.51.01.2
Tottenham11001 12.31.11.7

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