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 1905
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2.—Defects Found.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—* | |||||
Want of Cleanliness | 135 | 135 | Nil | Nil. | |
Want of Ventilation | 8 | 8 | |||
Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | |||
Want of drainage of floors | 5 | 5 | |||
Other Nuisances | 241 | 241 | |||
Sanitaryaccommodations | Insufficient | 12 | 12 | ||
Unsuitable or defective | 91 | 91 | |||
Not Separate for Sexes | 8 | 8 | |||
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
Illegal Occupation of Underground Bakehouse (sec. 101) | — | — | |||
Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (sees.97 to 100) | 73 | 73 | |||
Failure as regard Lists of Outworkers (sec. 107) | 17 | 17 | |||
Giving out work to 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 Offences | 1 | — | 1 | — | |
Total | 594 | 593 | 1 | — |
Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under
the Public Health Acts.