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Willesden 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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ICE CREAM.
All premises where ice cream was likely to be sold were visited.
In no instance was any gross insanitary condition observed.
Cleansing of rooms and sculleries was required in a few cases;
defective paving in one instance.
Shops where ice cream is usually sold are confectioners, sweetstuffs,
mineral water, and newspaper shops, and in some instances
general shops.
Many of the shops did not make any cream during the season
owing to the cold summer.
SMOKE NUISANCE.
The year has been practically free from serious complaints relating
to the emission of smoke.
Complaints were received from residents in Harley Road of smoke
from a locomotive engine engaged on the construction works of the
London and North Western Railway. The nuisance was effectually
abated upon representations being made to the Company before
reporting to the Council.
Several complaints of smoke from shafts belonging to laundries
were received during the year. The nuisance was abated after notice,
the use of coke being substituted for that of coal.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
Notices were served in respect of seven premises:—
137, Cambridge Road.
139, ,, „
17, Park Mows, Kilburn.
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2, Stracey Road.
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The Old Six Bells, Church End