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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
Holborn 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year, details of the number of premises on the Register at the end of the year, number of inspections, etc.
Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections. 1909. | Number of Notices 1909. | Number of Prosecutions 1909. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1908. | Added in 1909. | Removed in 1909. | On Register at end of 1909. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories, ‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 4 | — | — | 4 | — | 6 | 1 | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 34 | — | — | — |
| Other Factories | — | — | — | — | — | 83 | 9 | 2 | — |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 11 | — | — | 11 | 30 | 19 | 3 | — | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 29 | 3 | 1 | 31 | — | 260 | 9 | 1 | — |
| Other Workshops | 988 | 82 | 10 | 1,060 | 1,698 | 821 | 122 | 18 | 1 |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises * | 186 | 43 | 33 | 196 | 230 | 188 | 8 | 1 | _ |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 388 | 12 | 18 | 382 | 1,936 | 7 l | 10 | 1 | |
| Workplaces other than the the above § | — | — | — | — | — | 193 | 114 | 33 | — |
| Total | 1,608 | 140 | 63 | 1,685 | 1,958 | 3,540 | 316 | 65 | 2 |
* There were in addition, many inspections of Homeworkers' Premises made during the house-to-house
and periodical inspections of Lodging Houses and other Dwelling Houses.
† Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating-houses of all sorts
Slaughter Houses, Tripe, Offal, and other Meat Shops, Fried Fish, Eel, and other Fish Shops,
Ice Cream Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding Bakehouses
which are given above.
‡ Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them
were inspected during 1909, and notices served where necessary.
§ There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is no
required, and many of them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1909, there were 32 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 15 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 17 in the Holborn District.
The Bakehouse at 6, Torrington Place was demolished during the year, the
Factory one at 49 to 55, Farringdon Road was closed, and new ones occupied at
4a, East Street, 15, Torrington Place, and 55, Mount Pleasant.
The following is a list of the bakehouses in the Borough, all of which are
underground except those marked *:—
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