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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
Hampstead 1911
Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health
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2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Act:— | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 93 | 94 | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 8 | 8 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 3 | 3 | - | — | |
| Other nuisances | 51 | 50 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 11 | 11 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 175 | 174 | — | — | |
Column (2) in the above table gives the number of defeats found,
and column (3) the number remedied during the year. The correspending
figures in the two columns are not identical, because in the
case of some of the defects discovered near the end of the year, the
work necessary to remedy the defects had not been completed and
column (3) includes some defects which were found at the end of 1910
and remedied in the following year.