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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TABLE 56.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS (Women's).
Inspector, Miss ELLIOTT.
Statement of Inspections, with Insanitary Conditions found existing, and of Re-Inspections, &c.
Description of Work. | Total for Borough. |
---|---|
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, &c. Number of on the Register at end of year | 571 |
Factories, Number of Inspections of | — |
Workshops, Number of Workrooms therein | 1169 |
,, Number of Inspections of | 451 |
,, Number of Re-inspections of | 1194 |
,, Number of Workrooms measured | 322 |
Workrooms, &c., Number of Inspections of | 808 |
,, found to be overcrowded | 12 |
,, found to be insufficiently ventilated | 4 |
,, found to be in a dirty condition | 165 |
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered | 71 |
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery | 7 |
,, Removed from the Register | 76 |
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed | 24 |
Houses inspected re outworkers or at which outworkers are employed | 401 |
Written Intimations issued | 91 |
Statutory notices | 20 |
Works carried out under supervision— | |
2 | |
372 | |
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired | 1 |
(d) Sanitary conveniences constructed | 4 |
(e) Miscellaneous nuisances abated | 84 |
" Overcrowding'' of Workrooms, Gases of, abated | 37 |
(f) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c. | — |
(g)Sanitary Conveniences ill- lighted, unventilated, and defective in water supply | - |
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns | _ |
138 |