[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough].

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1946?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOROUGH. The following table shows the number of visits made by the Sanitary Inspectors, and the number of Preliminary Notices served and complied with during the year:— Cause of Inspection. No. of Inspections. No. of Notices served. No. of Notices com plied with. Bakehouses 58 2 3 Cancer 5 — — Complaints 4,242 2,125 1,421 Drainage 1,362 22 21 Factories (Mechanical) 154 12 10 Factories (Non-mechanical) 29 1 1 Food (other than Restaurants and Eating Houses) 1,475 25 15 Housing Act 386 30 21 Ice Cream Vendors 237 3 3 Infectious Diseases 1,938 36 19 Licences (Building) 3,076 7 5 Markets 839 1 1 Milk Vendors 318 12 9 Outworkers 205 2 — Pharmacy and Medicines Act 71 — — Public Urinals 60 2 1 Rats and Mice 1,394 129 89 Requisitioning of Houses 140 — — Restuarants and Eating Houses 108 4 5 Scabies 983 9 4 Shelters (A.R.P.) 11 — — Shops Act 19 2 3 Slaughterhouses 3 — — Smoke Observations 7 3 — War Damage 186 63 44 Miscellaneous 1,577 59 35 Re-visits 5,745 282 201 No Answer 2,809 — — No. of Ineffective Visits 27,437 2,809 2,831 1,911 Total 24,628 2,831 1,911 During the year 664 Statutory Notices were served and 442 complied with. INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE RESTRICTIONS ACT, 1920/1939. During the year 14 applications were received for certifi cates under the above Act, and in 8 cases certificates were granted.