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Hammersmith 1909
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1909
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careful consideration of your Public Health Committee
both as to the efficiency and sufficiency of the sanitary
accommodation provided. Owing to the sparseness
of attendance at the Exhibition the amount of sanitary
accommodation was greatly in excess of the requirement.
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, Etc.
Your factory inspector has during the year served
257 notices under the Factory and Workshop Act,
and during the same period 244 notices have been
complied with. During the previous year there were
253 notices served and 245 complied with.
The following is a list of the Factories and Work shops upon the Register:—
| Restaurants, Hotels, &c. | 136 |
| Bakehouses (5 not used at present as Bakeries) | 66 |
| Bootmakers | 69 |
| Motor and Cycle Makers and Engineers | 48 |
| Dressmakers and Milliners | 249 |
| Laundries | 305 |
| Letterpress Printers and Bookbinders | 29 |
| Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 49 |
| Smiths, Wheelwrights and Coachbuilders | 35 |
| Tailors | 54 |
| Bottle Washing Works | 14 |
| Dry Cleaning, Dyeing, and Carpet Beating Works | 18 |
| Firewood Cutters | 15 |
| Builders and Joiners (Machine) | 31 |
| Outworkers | 551 |
| Miscellaneous | 111 |
| 1,780 |
The whole of these premises have been under a
systematic inspection by your special Inspector
appointed for that purpose, and numerous improvements
in the sanitary condition of these premises have
been carried out under his supervision. In addition to
this work Mr. Neighbour performed for a considerable
part of the year the duties of Smoke Inspector.