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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
Chelsea 1909
Annual report for 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in connection with Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, and Homework.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors op Nuisances.
| premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries.) | 7 | — | — |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries.) | 1063 | 46 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Beport.) | |||
| Total | 1070 | 46 | — |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| PARTICULARS. | Defects. | Numberof Prose-cutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 30 | 30 | _ | _ | |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | _ | _ | |
| Other nuisances | 12 | 12 | __ | _ | |
| insufficient | — | — | — | — | |
| †Sanitary accommoda- tionI | unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | |||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | _ | _ | _ | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | 6 | 6 | |||
| Other offences | - | — | — | ||
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Beport.) | |||||
| Total | 54 | 54 | — | — | |
•Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
+ For Districts not In London, state here whether section 22 of the Public
Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, has been adopted by the District Council; and,
if bo, what standard of sufficiency and suitability of sanitary accommodation for
persons employed in factories and workshops has been enforced.