Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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(A) SANITARY INSPECTION
| Cause of Inspection | No. of Inspections | No. of Notices served | No. of Notices com plied with |
| Bakehouses | 90 | 1 | - |
| Cancer | 1 | - | -_ |
| Complaints | 4,197 | 2,241 | 2,194 |
| Drainage | 1,594 | 9 | 17 |
| Factories (Mechanical) | 593 | 37 | 26 |
| Factories (Non-mechanical) | 234 | 19 | 19 |
| Food (other than Restaurants and Eating Houses) | 2,279 | 8 | 1 |
| House to House | 368 | 135 | 262 |
| Housing Act | 243 | 4 | 13 |
| Ice Cream Vendors | 259 | - | — |
| Infectious Diseases | 359 | 8 | 8 |
| Licences (Building) | 988 | 2 | 3 |
| Markets | 198 | — | — |
| Milk Vendors | 301 | 1 | — |
| Outworkers | 1,396 | 12 | 7 |
| Pharmacy and Medicines Act | 84 | — | — |
| Public Urinals | 3 | — | — |
| Rag Flock Act | 19 | — | — |
| Rats and Mice | 3,120 | 134 | 77 |
| Re-Housing | 816 | 59 | 49 |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 570 | 20 | 18 |
| Scabies | 1 | - | — |
| Shops Act | 140 | 8 | 8 |
| Slaughterhouses | — | — | — |
| Smoke Observations | 94 | 3 | 2 |
| Miscellaneous | 1,746 | 47 | 47 |
| Re-visits | 14,856 | 998 | 1,336 |
| No Answer | 4,518 | — | — |
| 39,067 | 3,746 | 4,087 | |
| No. of Ineffective Visits | 4,518 | — | — |
| Total | 34,549 | 3,746 | 4,087 |
During the year, 2,064 Statutory Notices were served and
2,001 complied with.
| Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | 326 |
| Food and Drugs Act, 1938 | 11 |
| Housing Act, 1936 | 2 |
| Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949 | 5 |
| H.B.C. Byelaws | 4 |
| L.C.C. Byelaws | 34 |
| Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 | 2 |