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Deptford 1903
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1903
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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
TABULATION OF REPORT AS REQUIRED BY S. 131 OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, AND WORKPLACES.
| CLASS OF WORKS. | Number of Places‡ | Number of Inspections, 1903. | Number of Notices, 1903. | Number of Prosecutions, 1903. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On Register at end of 1903. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms | ||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | ||||||||
| Factory Bakehouses | |||||||||
| Other Factories | 6 | ||||||||
| Workshops§ | Workshop Laundries | 12 | 2 | 10 | 34 | 12 | |||
| WorkshopBakehouses | 79 | 6 | 6 | 79 | 81 | 474 | |||
| Other Workshops | 155 | 23 | 6 | 1172 | 246 | 131 | |||
| Workplaces | Outworkers' Premises | 164 | 230 | 7 | 387 | 387 | 254 | ||
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale† | 54 | 64 | 54 | ||||||
| Workplaces other than the above | 1 | 53 | 59 | 53 | |||||
| Total | 410 | 259 | 21 | 755 | 871 | 984 | |||
‡ A Register is required by s. 131 in the case of Workshops only
† Under this head should be included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants, Eating
Houses of all sorts, Tripe, Fried Fish, and Eel Shops, and other places where
Food is prepared.
N.13.—1t is not necessary for the purposes of this Return to distinguish between
domestic factories, domestic or tenement workshops, and other workshops with
which therefore they should be included.