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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
Kensington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 140 | 9 | — |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 2,378 | 221 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in part 3 of this Report) | 244 | 14 | — |
| Total | 2,762 | 244 | — |
•Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public
Health Acts
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Want of cleanliness | 155 | 161 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 31 | 31 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
| Other Nuisances | 43 | 43 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 15 | 15 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 52 | 52 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 9 | 9 | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 37 | 37 | — | — | |
| Other Offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 363 | 369 | — | — | |