London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Lewisham 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Table: Inspection of Factories, Workshops & Workplaces.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.(Home Office Table, No.1).

Inspection of Factories, Workshops & Workplaces.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.(Home Office Table, No.1).

Premises,InspectionsWritten Notices.Prosecutions
Factories (including factory laundries)946—
Workshops (including workshop laundries)163027—
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Table 3)174——
Total189833—

Table: Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.(Home Office Table, No.2).

Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

(Home Office Table, No.2).

Particulars.Number of Defects.No. of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—* Want of cleanliness7171——
Want of ventilation22——
Overcrowding44——
Want of drainage of floors22——
Other nuisances1717——
Sanitary accommodation : Insufficient11——
Unsuitable or defective4343——
Not separate for sexes————
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)————
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(ss. 97-100)5757——
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report)————
Total197197——

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.