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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Fitness of Houses:—
(a) No difficulties have been experienced under the Public
Health Act or under the Housing Acts.
(b) The water supply is through the Metropolitan Water
Hoard. Very few houses have not an adequate internal
water supply.
Unhealthy Areas.
A list of properties recommended to be dealt with either
as Clearance or Improvement Areas or by Closing Orders
has been submitted to the Borough Council.
Bye-laws.
No special difficulties have been experienced in the enforcement
of the bye-laws relating to tenement houses, &c.
| Number of Council houses found to be infested | 3 |
| Number of other houses found to be infested | 185 |
| Number of Council houses disinfested | 3 |
| Number of other houses disinfested | 108 |
In all cases a notice is served, calling attention to the
infestation.
Methods Employed.
Removal of all woodwork, use of blow lamp, spray with
insecticide.
The furniture of tenants removing to Council houses
is disinfested by hydrocyanic acid gas and the bedding
disinfested in the Council's disinfector.
This Council has a contract with a firm for the disinfestation
with hydrocyanic acid gas.
Newly-Erected Houses.—On the 27th April the new
block of flats erected by the Council and known as Emlyn
Gardens was officially opened by His Worshipful the Mayor
of Hammersmith (Alderman W. H. Church, J.P.,. L.C.C.).