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 Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE IX.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—Inspection. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises. | Number of | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
Intimations. | Statutory. | |||
Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 126 | 31 | 3 | _ |
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 968 | 107 | 22 | — |
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 2,350 | 154 | 17 | 1 |
Total | 3,444 | 292 | 42 | 1 |
2.—Defects Found.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | |||
♦Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | |||||
Want of cleanliness | 90 | 90 | — | — | |
Want of ventilation | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
Other nuisances | 64 | 64 | — | — | |
Sanitary accommodation | r insufficient | 4 | 4 | — | — |
unsuitable or defective | 71 | 71 | — | — | |
not separate for sexes | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 14 | 14 | — | — | |
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | |
Total | 264 | 264 | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and \York»h«p Act as remediable under the
Public Health Acts.