London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
28
some of the traders having allowed their membership to lapse
by the non-payment of subscriptions. On the other hand several
new members were registered.
A number of talks on "Clean Food," illustrated by film
strips, were given during the year to various organisations.
As a means of obtaining publicity to the work of the Guild
and to call attention to the Council's campaign for cleaner food,
arrangements were made for an exhibit to be entered in the
Hammersmith "Carnival Procession," organised by the Community
Recreation Committee, on June 12th. Unfortunately,
the function had to be cancelled at the last moment owing to
very bad weather conditions.
At the end of the year the number of premises from which
foodstuffs were being sold by retail, so far as was known to the
Department, was 642.
Classified under different types of business they were as inder:—
| Bakers | 33 |
| Butchers | 73 |
| Cooked meats, eel-pie shops, etc. | 17° |
| Departmental and Chain stores | 7 |
| Fishmongers and Fried-fish shops | 39 |
| Fruiterers and Greengrocers | 91 |
| Grocers, Provision merchants and allied traders | 234† |
| Sweetstuff shops | 148 |
| 642 |
° including 2 registered for the sale of milk.
† including 86 registered for the sale of milk.
There were approximately 234 premises in the Borough where food could be consumed on the premises.
| Sub-divided, they were as under: — | |
| Cafes, Restaurants, Snack-bars, etc. (not including public-houses where food was sold and coffee stalls) | 142 |
| Industrial and Staff Canteens | 53 |
| Places of entertainment, Social and Sports Clubs, etc. | 36 |
| Old People's Luncheon Clubs | 3 |
| 234 | |