Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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Premises. | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 195 | 10 | — |
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1,938 | 44 | — |
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Table 3 of this Section of the Report) | 61 | 4 | — |
Total | 2,194 | 58 | — |
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
Want of cleanliness | 38 | 38 | — | _— | |
Want of ventilation | 6 | 6 | — | — | |
Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
Other nuisances | 33 | 33 | — | — | |
Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 4 | 4 | — | — |
unsuitable or defective | 31 | 31 | — | — | |
not separate for sexes | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | |||||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 14 | ]4 | — | — | |
Other Offences | — | — | — | — | |
(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table 3 of this Section of the Report.) | |||||
Total | 129 | 129 | — | — |
• Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public
Health Acts.