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Hammersmith 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions
Act, 1920-1933.—During the year eighteen applications
were received for certificates under the above Act. In
seventeen cases the certificates were granted.
This total includes four applications from owners, and
all were issued where the work specified had been completed
satisfactorily.
EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF
BODIES.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
During the year a licence was granted by the Secretary
of State for the exhumation and removal of a body from
the catacomb or grave in St. Mary's Cemetery.
The body was removed to Italy.
The work of removal and re-interment was carried out
in accordance with the conditions and under the supervision
of the Sanitary Inspector on my behalf.
PUBLIC BATHS.
The Public Swimming Baths in Lime Grove and the
Open-air Swimming Bath in Bloemfontein Road, are provided
with aeration and filtration plants, whereby the
water is continuously filtered, aerated and chlorinated.
The water is pumped from a point at the deepest part of
the Baths, passed under pressure to gravel filters, then
into a chamber or tank where it is aerated, and afterwards
chlorinated before returning to the Baths.
SWIMMING BATHS.
During the year 72 samples were taken from water in
the public swimming baths and submitted for bacteriological
examination. Generally the results from the Open