Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Class of Works | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections, 1903. | Number of Intimation Notices, 1903. | Number of Prosecutions, 1903. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
On Register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On Register at end of 1903. | ||||||
Rooms. | Premises | ||||||||
Factories | Factory Laundries | 4 | 21 | 1 | 24 | 110 | 80 | 18 | Nil. |
Factory Bakehouses | 18 | 3 | – | 4 | 10 | 14 | 3 | ||
Other Factories | 18 | 49 | 2 | 65 | – | 137 | 36 | ||
Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 73 | – | 6 | 67 | 189 | 3,369 | 57 | |
Workshop Bakehouses | 89 | 2 | – | 91 | 143 | 69 | |||
Other Workshops | 292 | 120 | 29 | 383 | 459 | 103 | |||
Outworkers' Premises | 134 | 44 | – | 178 | 178 | 356 | 7 | ||
Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale* | 83 | 68 | 2 | 149 | 216 | 535 | 88 | |
Small Exempted Laundries | 25 | 41 | – | 66 | 132 | 132 | 21 | ||
Total | 719 | 348 | 40 | 1,027 | 1,437 | 4,623 | 402 |
*Under this bead are included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, eating-houses of all sorts, tripe, fried fish and eel shops and
other places where food is prepared.