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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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| Cause of Inspection | No. of Inspections | No. of Notices served | No. of Notices complied with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Pollution and Clean Air | 2,705 | 4 | — |
| Bakehouses | 76 | 2 | 1 |
| Club Licensing | 26 | — | — |
| Drainage | 3,546 | 35 | 64 |
| Factories (Mechanical) | 374 | 13 | 7 |
| Factories (Non-Mechanical) | 33 | 4 | 3 |
| Fireguard Regulations | 21 | — | — |
| Food (other than Restaurants and Eating Houses) | 2,038 | 67 | 17 |
| Hairdressers and Barbers | 58 | 2 | 2 |
| Housing Act | 440 | 7 | 3 |
| Housing Applications | 108 | 7 | 1 |
| Houses in Multiple Occupation | 577 | 33 | 4 |
| Housing Repairs and Rents Act | 23 | — | — |
| House to House | 52 | 13 | — |
| Ice Cream Vendors | 317 | — | — |
| Infectious Diseases | 50 | 1 | — |
| Markets | 315 | — | — |
| Milk Vendors | 541 | — | - |
| Noise Abatement Act | 38 | — | — |
| Offices | 5 | — | — |
| Outworkers | 109 | — | — |
| Pet Animals Act | 9 | — | — |
| Pharmacy and Poisons Act | 89 | — | — |
| Public Health Act | 3,487 | 1261 | 1,264 |
| Public Urinals | 2 | — | — |
| Rats and Mice | 2,768 | 59 | 20 |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 235 | 18 | 6 |
| Shops Act | 203 | 10 | 7 |
| Miscellaneous | 885 | 63 | 1 |
| Total | 19,130 | 1,599 | 1,400 |
During the year 647 Statutory Notices were served and 678 were complied with.
Summonses—Proceedings instituted during the year
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 107
Food & Drugs Act, 1955, and regulations made
thereunder 46
L.C.C. Byelaws 37
H.B.C. Byelaws 4
Housing Act 12
Noise Abatement Act, 1960 2
Consumer Protection Act, 1961 (Heating
Appliances, Fireguard Regulations) 2
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 be surcharged. However,
work is now being undertaken by the L.C.C. to obviate the trouble caused by storm
water, 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.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1962, authorises this
cil to serve a notice requiring the owner or occupier of such premises to close the
basement where the situation could not be remedied at reasonable expense, or otherwise
to carry out works to secure the proper and efficient drainage of such property.