Let V be a reduced and irreducible hypersurface of degree k 3. In this paper we prove that if the singular locus of V consists of δ 2 ordinary double points, δ 3 ordinary triple points and if δ 2 + 4δ 3 < (k − 1) 2 , then any smooth surface contained in V is a complete intersection on V .Refining an argument of Severi (see [8]), Ciliberto and Di Gennaro prove in [1] that any surface contained in a hypersurface of P 4 with few ordinary double points is a complete intersection.In what follows we will discuss the possibility of extending the argument in [1] when the singularities involved are not only ordinary double points. More precisely we want to prove the following statement: Theorem 1. Let V ⊂ P 4 be a reduced and irreducible hypersurface of degree k 3. If the singular locus of V consists of δ 2 ordinary double points, δ 3 ordinary triple points and if δ 2 + 4δ 3 < (k − 1) 2 , then any smooth projective surface contained in V is a complete intersection on V .If the singularities involved are of order greater then three we obtain a weaker result: Proposition 2. Let V ⊂ P 4 be a reduced and irreducible hypersurface of degree k 3. Suppose that the singular locus of V consists of δ ordinary points of order at mostr and let δ r be the number of singular points of order r, 2 r r. If r r=2 (r − 1) 2 δ r < (k − 1) 2