Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1916 of the Medical Officer of Health
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West End Ward †60 & 110 Cricklewood Broadway,†553
Finchley Road, Field Lane School, Hillfield
Road, *4.3 & 44 Mill Lane, †4 Munro Terrace,
Fortune Green, and 251 & *279 West End
Lane.
Kilburn Ward *63 Hemstal Road, *94 & *354 High Road,
Kilburn, *4 Kelson Street, 67 Kingsgate Road
and *†99 Palmerston Road.
Priory Ward *202 & *228 Belsize Road, *†98 Boundary Road,
*†93 Fairfax Road, *7 Fairhazel Gardens and
*137 Finchley Road.
Those marked * are underground bakehouses.
Those marked † are factory bakehouses.
Bakehouses—Underground 21
,, Above ground 15
Total 36
Restaurant Kitchens, &c.
The total number of these premises on the register at the end of
1916 was 66. They are kept under regular supervision. 144 inspections
have been made and 16 notices served during the year.
Meat Supply.
The Meat Supply of the Borough is good and in no case has any
unsound or diseased meat been found by the Sanitary Inspectors
during the year.
Slaughter Houses.
There are 4 Licensed Slaughter Houses in the Borough, situated
at 40 England's Lane, and 17 and 69 Higli Street and 6 Fairfax Mews.
These have been regularly inspected during the year; 61 inspections
having been made. The quarterly limewashing has been duly carried
out.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act-
506 samples were taken for analysis during the year. The
number certified to be adulterated was 11 or 2.1 per cent, of the total
number, as against 7.7 in 1915 and 6.2 in 1914. 5 samples were
certified to be of low quality.
453 samples were purchased from Hampstead tradesmen and 53
from tradesmen coming from other districts. The percentage of
adulterated samples in the two classes was 1.8 and 5.6 respectively.
24 samples were taken on Sundays :—none were adulterated,
but two were of low quality.