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Hammersmith 1914

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1914

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The following is a list of the premises certified by
me during the year:—
1 to 8, Blue Hall Mansions.
27 to 33. King Street.
1 to 8, and 10 to 12. Court Mansions, Vencourt Place, King Slreet.
No application was received under Section 35 of
the Towns Planning Act, 1909.
SEIZURE OF UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
On March 5th a resident of the Borough brought
to the Public Health Department, five veal cutlets
which he said he had purchased the same day about
1 o'clock.
The cutlets were submitted to a Justice of the
Peace, who gave an order for their destruction as being
unfit for the food of man.
A summons was taken out, but had to be withdrawn
owing to the purchaser disappearing from the
neighbourhood.
On December 3rd, Sanitary Inspector Cromack
was on duty at the White City Encampment, when his
attention was drawn to some meat which had been
deposited by the Contractors, Messrs. J. Lyons & Co.,
Ltd., in the larder adjoining the Imperial Banqueting
Room, and was requested to examine it. He immediately
proceeded to the larder and examined the meat.
He found the same to be unfit for the food of man, and
informed the officer who had called his attention to its
condition, that he intended seizing the meat, and
requested him to place a guard over the same, until
the arrival of the Medical Officer of Health.
I proceeded to the White City and inspected the
meat in the presence of an officer and some other
members of the Sanitary Company, and representatives
of the Company.
The meat, which consisted of five trays of uncooked
and seven trays of cooked, and weighed 12 cwt., was
then placed into seventeen trays for the convenience of
removal and submitted to W. P. Hunter, Esq., J.P.,
who condemned the same and gave an order for its
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