Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Hammersmith for the 53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
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[1897]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Hammersmith for the 53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/22 (page 291)
    291 PUBLIC MORTUARY. During last year your Vestry removed 6 dead bodies of persons who had died from infectious diseases, and 2 bodies of persons for whom no proper accommodation could be found at the late residences of the deceased, to the mortuary at the Wharf, Chancellors, There were 135 bodies brought to the mortuary by order of the Coroner or the Police, 30 of these were taken from the West London Hospital, and included 10 parishioners and 20 non-parishioners. PUBLIC NUISANCES. During last year I brought before your Public Health Committee complaints received by me in reference to the following alleged public nuisances:— I. Nuisance from fumes from a shaft at the Brook Green Carpet Cleaning Works. II. Offensive odour from brickfield at the end of Ormiston Road, Shepherd's Bush. III. Nuisance from gullies in the neighbourhood of Raynham Road. IV. Offensive effluvia from roof of the retort house of the Great Western Gas Works, College Park. V. Offensive odour caused by a product of the compression of a mineral oil discharge into the main sewer at, near to College Park. The whole of these complaints were reported upon by me, and had the careful consideration of your Committee. PROSECUTION OF BRICKMAKERS IN WOOD LANE. The process of brickmaking has been extensively carried on at Mr. A. Bird's brickfield, Wood Lane, and no nuisance has been ascertained to exist nor has any complaint been received through the year,