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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
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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If, in addition to this and the granting of powers to Local
Authorities to make bye-laws, it were further provided that the
fermentation process should be conducted under conditions in which
the general temperature of the bakehouse might be maintained within
reasonable limits, much would be done to remove the unsatisfactory
conditions incidental to the manufacture of bread-stuffs.
Table A.
| No. of Eakehouses in District. | Total No. of Inspections, 1904-10. | Repair and Cleanliness of Walls, Floors, and Ceilings. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walls. | Ceilings. | Floors. | ||||||||
| Clean-liness. | Repair | Cleanliness. | Kepair | Cleanliness. | ||||||
| Above ground | 48 | 2761 | Good | Inspc. | ||||||
| No. | 263 | 206 | 266 | 201 | 259 | 237 | ||||
| % | 98-3 | 74-6 | 96-4 | 72-9 | 93-8 | 85-9 | ||||
| Defective | No. | 12 | 62 | 7 | 63 | 15 | 33 | |||
| % | 4-3 | 22-6 | 2-3 | 22-9 | 5-4 | 11-9 | ||||
| Bad | No. | 1 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 6 | |||
| % | 0-4 | 2-9 | 1-1 | 4-3 | 0-7 | 2-2 | ||||
| Under ground | 24 | 169 | Good | No. | 165 | 138 | 164 | 136 | 168 | 158 |
| % | 97-6 | 81-7 | 970 | 80-4 | 99-4 | 93-8 | ||||
| Defective | No. | 4 | 29 | 4 | 31 | 1 | 6 | |||
| % | 2-4 | 17-2 | 2-4 | 18-3 | 0-7 | 3-6 | ||||
| Bad | No. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| % | 1-2 | 7 | 11 | — | 30 | |||||