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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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During the year 313 Statutory Notices were served and 397 were complied with.
Summonses—Proceedings instituted during the year
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 54
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 29
L.C.C. Byelaws 1
H.B.C. Byelaws 1
Housing Act, 1957 5
Noise Abatement Act, I960 1
Sewerage
The main sewers and the sewage disposal system in London are the
responsibility of the London County Council. Rainwater and soil sewage are
carried in the same sewers, but the arrangements for Hammersmith are not yet
adequate inasmuch as some basements in the Borough are liable to flooding from
time to time when heavy storms cause the sewers to become surcharged. The
area mostly affected is in the vicinity of the northern end of Askew Road.
It is anticipated that when the long awaited improvement scheme is put into
effect there will be no further trouble of this nature, except to those basements
which are not drained efficiently by gravitation into a sewer at all times and under
all conditions of flow in the sewer.