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 Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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Summary of Sanitary work done during 1901 under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878-1895, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | |||
Workshops Inspected | 551 | Workshops Overcrowded | 4 |
„ Notices served | 82 | „ Other nuisances | |
„ Dirty | 53 | „ Notices sent to H. M. I. of Factories, children, young persons or women employed | 7 |
„ Waterclosets, defective or dirty | 26 | ||
„ do. insufficient | 12 | ||
„ Drains, soil pipes, &c. defective | 1 | „ Complaints received from H. M. I. of Factories | 17 |
„ Improperly ventilated | - |
BAKEHOUSES.
There are 40 bakehouses in the Borough, of which 22 are in Bloomsbury and St. Giles, and 18
are in the Holborn Sub-Division.
They were all inspected from time to time, during the year and notices served where necessary.
The following is a list of bakehouses in the Borough :
160 Drury Lane. | 21 Sardinia Street. |
166 do. | 2 Bloomsbury Court. |
200 Shaftesbury Avenue. | 10 Bury Street. |
63 High Street. | 162 High Holborn. |
19 Little Earl Street. | 21 Marchmont Street. |
5 Little St. Andrew Street. | 77 Marchmont Street. |
26 Little Queen Street. | 8 Museum Street. |
6 Torrington Place. | 28 New Oxford Street. |
233 Tottenham Court Road. | 88 Southampton Row. |
33 Great Wild Street. | 34 do. |
60 Neal Street. | 155 do. |
92 Theobald's Road. | 8 High Holborn. | |
124 do. | 9 Cosmo Place. | |
136 do. | 33 Great Ormond Street. | |
19 Red Lion Street. | 13 Leigh Street. | |
50 do. | 58 Leather Lane. | |
74 do. | 70 do. | |
6 Lamb's Conduit Street (two) | 172 Clerkenwell Road. | |
28 do. | 1 Greville Street. | |
50 do. | 36 Warner Street. |
All are underground bakehouses with the exception of Nos. 162, High Holborn, 88,
Southampton Row, 74, Red Lion Street, and one of the two at No. 6, Lamb's Conduit Street.
67 kitchens of restaurants were inspected and the 17 notices that were served included the following nuisances :— | |
Kitchens dirty | 9 |
Cistern ,, | 1 |
Drains defective | 6 |
W.e.'s in improper position | 5 |
Additional w.c. required | 1 |
Dustbin defective or absent | 3 |
Paving defective | 1 |
Kitchen also used for sleeping | 1 |