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 West Ham]
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(Extracted from Somerset House Reports.)
Expressed in parts per 100,000.
Temperature— in Centigrade degrees. | Total Solid Matter. | Organic Carbon. | Organic Nitrogen. | Ammonia | Nitrogen as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Nitrogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
December, 1902 | 5.0 | 37.60 | .083 | .008 | 0 | .166 | .174 | 2.30 | 18.9 |
January, 1903 | 6.5 | 39.94 | .117 | .018 | 0 | .195 | .207 | 2.5 | 20.6 |
February „ | 7.0 | 36.28 | .246 | .021 | 0 | .477 | .498 | 2.15 | 24.5 |
March „ | 6.5 | 31.92 | .542 | .045 | 0 | .293 | .338 | 1.95 | 21.2 |
April „ | 8.0 | 38.18 | .193 | .016 | 0 | .229 | .245 | 2.45 | 23.6 |
May „ | 11.5 | 36.56 | .211 | .020 | 0 | .268 | .288 | 2.4 | 23.3 |
June „ | - | 32.08 | .281 | .026 | 0 | .493 | .519 | 1.90 | 21.6 |
July „ | 17.5 | 36.94 | .226 | .022 | 0 | .167 | .189 | 2.20 | 22.1 |
August „ | 17.3 | 35.14 | .225 | .023 | 0 | .155 | .178 | 2.0 | 21.2 |
September „ | 17.0 | 37.92 | .265 | .021 | 0 | .149 | .170 | 2.15 | 21.6 |
October „ | 11.5 | 35.38 | .233 | .028 | 0 | .159 | .187 | 2.00 | 21.8 |
November „ | 8.0 | 40.60 | .247 | .023 | 0 | .279 | .302 | 1.90 | 27.2 |