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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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In conclusion, it is my purpose in a further report, at a
later date, to deal with the remainder originally included in
the area above-mentioned, much of which needs attention.
At the end of the year your Committee were considering
the question of serving Closing Orders with a
view to removing the existing insanitary conditions.
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, Etc.
During the year 293 notices were served in reference
to insanitary conditions and defects found to exist
during the inspection of the factories, workshops, and
workplaces in the Borough, and during the same period
310 notices have been complied with. During the
previous year there were 287 notices served and 281
complied with.
The following is a list of the Factories and Work-shops upon the Register:—
| Restaurants, Hotels, etc. | 160 |
| Bakehouses (9 not used at present as Bakeries) | 61 |
| Bootmakers | 52 |
| Motor and Cycle Makers and Engineers | 45 |
| Dressmakers and Milliners | 178 |
| Laundries | 267 |
| Letterpress Printers and Bookbinders | 16 |
| Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 19 |
| Smiths, Wheelwrights and Coachbuilders | 27 |
| Tailors | 43 |
| Bottle Washing Works | 4 |
| Dry Cleaning, Dyeing and Carpet Beating Works | 6 |
| Firewood Cutters | 14 |
| Builders and Joiners (Machine) | 19 |
| Outworkers | 773 |
| Miscellaneous | 196 |
| 1,880 |
The whole of these premises have been under a
systematic inspection by your special Inspector
appointed for that purpose, and by the District Inspectors
since October, and numerous improvements in the
sanitary condition of these premises have been carried
out under their supervision.