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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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Matters dealt with in connection with Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Intimation Notices Issued. | Prosecutions. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Notified by Home Office. | Remedied. | Notified to Home Office. | ||||
| Matters under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | |||||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 260 | 2 | 262 | 2 | 262 | Nil. | |
| Want of Ventilation | 64 | 1 | 65 | 65 | 1 | ||
| Want of Air Space: Overcrowding | 12 | – | 12 | – | 12 | ||
| Sanitary Accommodation, (sec. 38.) | Insufficient | 12 | – | 12 | – | 12 | |
| Unsuitable | 149 | – | – | 149 | 149 | ||
| Not separate for Sexes | 7 | – | – | 7 | 7 | ||
| Want of Drainage of Floors | 12 | 14 | 2 | 14 | 2 | ||
| Other Nuisances | 395 | 1 | 396 | 1 | 396 | ||
| Contraventions of Factory and. Workshop Act, 1901. | |||||||
| Occupying Underground Bakehouse without Certificate | |||||||
| Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (secs. 97 to 100) | 13 | – | 13 | – | 13 | ||
| Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (sec. 107) | |||||||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | Unwholesome (sec. 108) | ||||||
| Infected (sec. 110) | |||||||
| Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Smallpox (sec. 109) | |||||||
| Other Contraventions | |||||||
| Total | 924 | 6 | 930 | 6 | 930 | ||