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Holborn 1914
Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
During the year there were 229 inspections of factories, 679 inspections of
workshops and 2,339 of workplaces. 222 Intimation Notices for sanitary defects
were served and 24 Statutory Notices.
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, 1914. | Number of Notices 1914. | Number of Prosecution 1914. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1913. | Added in 1914. | Removed in 1914. | On Register at end of 1914. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories. ‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | 4 | — | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 4 | 1 | — | 5 | — | 31 | — | — | — |
| Other Factories | — | — | — | — | — | 194 | 15 | 2 | — |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 10 | — | — | 10 | 30 | 12 | 1 | — | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 28 | — | 1 | 27 | — | 191 | 4 | — | — |
| Other Workshops | 1,163 | 10 | 37 | 1,136 | 1,889 | 476 | 76 | 9 | — |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises * | 251 | 39 | 49 | 241 | — | 159 | 3 | — | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 397 | 60 | 99 | 358 | — | 1,958 | 56 | 4 | — |
| Workplaces other than the above § | — | — | — | — | — | 222 | 70 | 9 | — |
| Total | 1,856 | 110 | 186 | 1,780 | 1,919 | 3,247 | 225 | 24 | — |
* 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 1914, and notices served where necessary.
§ There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not
required, and many of them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1914, there were 32 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 13 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 19 in the Holborn District.