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 Southwark, Borough of]
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Inspector, Miss ELLIOTT.
Description of Work. | Total for Borough. |
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Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, &c. Number of on the Register at end of year | 412 |
Workshops, Number of Workrooms therein | 1038 |
,, Number of Inspections of | 637 |
,, Number of Re-inspections of | 958 |
,, Number of Workrooms measured | 398 |
Workrooms, &c., Number of Inspections of | 1011 |
„ found to be overcrowded | 19 |
,, found to be insufficiently ventilated | 94 |
,, found to be in a dirty condition | 392 |
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered | 131 |
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery | 12 |
,, Removed from the Register | 41 |
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed | 100 |
Houses visited re outworkers or at which outworkers are employed | 92 |
Written Intimations issued | 199 |
Statutory notices | 75 |
Works carried out under supervision— | |
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided | 100 |
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed | 503 |
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired | 16 |
(d) Sanitary conveniences constructed | — |
(e) Miscellaneous nuisances abated | 193 |
Overcrowding" of Workrooms, Cases of, abated | 14 |
(f) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c. | 1 |
(g) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted, unventilated, and defective in water supply | 62 |
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns | — |
(i) Cisterns dirty or uncovered | 5 |
(j) Miscellaneous | 126 |