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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
Hammersmith 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Sanitary Circumstances of the Borough.
Inspections.—The following table shows the number of
visits made in each district under the various inspection
heads:—
NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS MADE DURING 1940.
| Cause of Inspection. | Inspectors. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. W. Southerby | T. W. Glew | W. A. Collins | H. W. l'otter | S. R. Daly | J. Broadhead | A. Hayes | E. J. Nether | J. C. Hopkins | \V.Goddcn | Miss E. M. Cross | Total | |
| Infectious Diseas | 4 | 21 | 79 | 69 | 35 | 22 | 96 | 27 | - | 5 | 646 | 1,004 |
| Complaints | 295 | 306 | 556 | 584 | 329 | 268 | 245 | 225 | 1 | 7 | 78 | 2,894 |
| House to House | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | 17 | - | - | - | 23 |
| Housing Acts | 327 | 164 | 273 | 320 | 260 | 150 | 231 | 198 | - | - | 1 | 1,924 |
| Shops Act, 1934 | - | 52 | 102 | 7 | 53 | 8 | 12 | 8 | - | - | - | 242 |
| Food (other than Restaurants and Eating Houses) Restaurants and Eating | 20 | 294 | 203 | 62 | 18 | 25 | 65 | 91 | 1,344 | 1,963 | - | 4,085 |
| Houses | 1 | 8 | 46 | 6 | - | - | 2 | 8 | 161 | 120 | - | 352 |
| Markets | 6 | 100 | 20 | 249 | 14 | 138 | 10 | 53 | 228 | 382 | - | 1,200 |
| Slaughterhouses | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 |
| Bakehouses | - | 7 | 13 | 10 | - | 2 | 6 | - | 25 | 79 | - | 142 |
| Milk Vendors | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 27 | 50 | 175 | - | 264 |
| Ice Cream Vendors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | - | 7 |
| Factories (Mechanical) | - | 47 | 44 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 47 | 10 | - | 126 | 305 |
| Factories (Non-mechanical) | 6 | 4 | 41 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 203 | 258 |
| Outworkers | 2 | - | 9 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 222 | 242 |
| Public Urinals | 5 | 2 | 49 | 9 | - | - | 33 | 5 | - | - | - | 103 |
| Smoke Observations | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 50 |
| Drainage | 129 | 135 | 234 | 112 | 79 | 50 | 78 | 165 | - | - | - | 1.282 |
| Miscellaneous | 3S | 62 | 159 | 190 | 131 | 371 | 1,189 | 240 | - | 273 | 448 | 3,101 |
| Re-visits | 704 | 928 | 1.694 | 1,187 | 1.100 | 1,007 | 987 | 1,546 | - | - | 82 | 9.235 |
| Child Life Protection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 495 | 495 |
| Common Lodging Houses | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| Pharmacy and Poisons Act | 8 | - | 10 | 33 | 17 | - | 10 | 10 | - | - | - | 88 |
| Cancer | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | 48 |
| Rest Centres | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | 35 |
| Refugee Billets | - | 63 | 201 | 203 | 1,112 | 215 | 1.094 | 1,373 | - | - | 273 | 4,534 |
| Air Raid Shelters | - | 271 | 31 | 38 | - | 140 | 48 | 2 | 152 | - | - | 688 |
| Fire Watchers' Order | - | 155 | 86 | 72 | - | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | 355 |
| 1.547 | 2,622 | 3,858 | 3,481 | 3,161 | 2,456 | 4,125 | 4,042 | 1,971 | 3.013 | 2,689 | 32.965 | |