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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
Battersea 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903
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Defects discovered in Workshops and remedied: —
Workshops with defective yard paving 10
„ with defective drains 4
„ with blocked drains 5
„without proper dustbins 24
„with defective w.c. apparatus 23
„ with sanitary conveniences insufficient
in number or absent
„ with sanitary conveniences badly
ventilated 5
„ with sanitary conveniences inside
workrooms 2
„ with sanitary conveniences opening
into workrooms 8
„ with sanitary conveniences without
propter doors or fastenings 27
„ with sanitary conveniences insufficiently
screened 4
„ with sanitary conveniences in dirty
condition 6
Gullies removed from bakehouses 9
Proper outlets for smoke provided in smith's workshops
9
Other defects remedied 16
The following notices of defects in workshops were received from H.M. Inspectors of Factories. In each case a notice was served on the person responsible, and the defects remedied.
| Premises. | Trade. | Nature of Complaint. |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Bridge Road West | Laundry ... | The method of ventilating ironing room appears to be defective. |
| 73 | „ | Standing water found on wash-house floor likely to cause a nuisance. |
| 131 „ „ | „ | The ironing room requires cleansing. |
| 37 High Street | Confectioner | The yard and approaches thereto are in a very dirty and bad state of repair. |
| 8 Lavender Road | Laundry | Standing water found on wash-house floor likely to cause a nuisance. |
| 72 Plough Road | Windowblind Maker | Workshop in a very dirty condition. |