Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1922
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3.—Unhealthy Areas.
Areas represented to the Local Authority with
a view to Improvement Schemes under (a) Part 1,
or (b) Part 11, of the Act of 1890: —
(1) Name of area Nil
(2) Acreage
(3) Number of working-class houses in area
(4) Number of working-class persons to be
displaced
IV. —Number of houses not complying with the
building by-laws erected with the consent of
the Local Authority under Section 25 of the
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919 Nil
V. —Staff engaged on housing work with, briefly,
the duties of each—
Medical Officer of Health.
Three Clerks (part time).
Eight Sanitary Inspectors.
Meteorology.
The average mean temperature registered in London
during the year was 49.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest air
temperature registered being 91 degrees, in May. The lowest
air temperature was 24 degrees in January, October and
December. The total amount of rainfall was 23.2 inches.