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 Lewisham Borough]
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Premises, | Inspections | Written Notices. | Prosecutions |
---|---|---|---|
Factories (including factory laundries) | |||
Workshops (including workshop laundries) | |||
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Table 3) | |||
Total ... | — |
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | No. of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—* | ||||
Want of cleanliness | 45 | 45 | - | — |
Want of ventilation | 13 | 13 | - | — |
Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | - | — |
Want of drainage of floors | ||||
Other nuisances | 15 | 15 | — | — |
Sanitary accommodation | ||||
Insufficient | _ | — | — | — |
Unsuitable or defective | 57 | 57 | - | — |
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) | 21 | 21 | ||
Other offences | _ | — | - | — |
Total | 153 | 153 | - | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.