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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Factories.
These visits also afforded all opportunity for extending and revising information
relating to "factories" in the Borough. Steps are being taken for the gradual
compilation of a register of such places, and at the end of the year 436 factories were
on the register. Workshops are automatically converted, at a very small cost, into
factories by the installation of a small electric motor; the health conditions then may
110 longer be inspected by the Borough Council's staff except as regards sanitary
accommodation.
The 436 factories include 50 different industries. In 210 cases men only were
employed, in 18 women only, and in 208 both sexes.
The more important industries carried on in these factories are:—
| Bookbinding | 19 |
| Engineering | 46 |
| Jewellers' work | 13 |
| Metal work | 11 |
| Printing | 98 |
The following is a summary in tabular form of the work done by the Inspectors in factories, workshops and workplaces in the year 1930: —
| Mr.Bennett. | Mr. Clark | Mr. Larard. | Miss Charles-worth. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factories— | ||||||
| Inspections | 55 | 32 | 167 | 2 | 256 | |
| Re-inspections | 2 | 8 | 9 | _ | 19 | |
| Workshops— | ||||||
| Inspections | 105 | 65 | 188 | 17 | 375 | |
| Re-inspections | 4 | 9 | 13 | — | 26 | |
| Workplaces— | ||||||
| Inspections | 24 | 23 | 63 | 3 | 113 | |
| Re-inspections | 17 | 16 | 51 | — | 84 | |
| Offices— | ||||||
| Inspections | 3 | 3 | 7 | — | 13 | |
| Re-inspections | - | 1 | _ | -_ | 1 | |
| Bakehouses— | ||||||
| Inspections | 26 | 16 | 8 | — | 50 | |
| Restaurants— | ||||||
| Inspections | 123 | 31 | 195 | — | 349 | |
| Re-inspections | 13 | 1 | 6 | — | 20 | |
| Licensed Permises- | ||||||
| Inspections | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | |
| Defects Found— | ||||||
| Want of cleanliness | 23 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 66 | |
| ,, ventilation | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | 7 | |
| Accommodation for refuse | 5 | 15 | 2 | - | 22 | |
| Accumulation of refuse | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 |
| Unsuitable | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | |
| Defective | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 | |
| Not separate for sexes | 1 | 4 | 4 | — | 9 | |
| Other nuisances | 11 | 19 | 26 | - | 56 | |
| Total defects | 48 | 67 | 71 | 3 | 189 | |