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Holborn 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
During the year there were 242 inspections of factories, 793 inspections of
workshops and 2,536 of workplaces. 264 Intimation Notices for sanitary defects
were served and 38 Statutory Notices.
The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year,
details of the number of premises on the Register at the end of the year, number
of inspections, etc.
Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections, 1913. | Number of Notices 1913. | Number of Prosecutions 1913. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1912. | Added in 1913. | Removed in 1913 | On Register at end of 1913 | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories.‡Factory Laundries | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 4 | — | — | 4 | — | 33 | — | — | — |
| Other Factories | — | — | — | — | — | 209 | 18 | 2 | — |
| Workshops. Workshop Laundries | 10 | — | — | 10 | 30 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 28 | — | — | 28 | — | 200 | 5 | — | — |
| Other Workshops | 1,171 | 38 | 46 | 1,163 | 1,849 | 587 | 122 | 23 | — |
| Workplaces. Home workers' Premises * | 239 | 55 | 43 | 251 | — | 207 | 4 | — | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale† | 379 | 23 | 5 | 397 | _ | 2,095 | 58 | 3 | 3 |
| Workplaces other than the above§ | — | — | — | — | — | 234 | 57 | 10 | — |
| Total | 1,834 | 116 | 94 | 1,856 | 1,879 | 3,571 | 264 | 38 | — |
| * There were, in addition, many inspections of Homeworkers' Premises made during the house-to-house, and periodical inspections of Lodging Houses and other Dwelling Houses. † Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating-houses of all sorts Slaughter Houses, Tripe, Offal, and other Meat Shops, Fried Fish, Eel, and other Fish Shops, Ice Cream Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding Bakehouses which are given above. ‡ Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them were inspected during 1913, and notices served where necessary. § There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not required, and many of them were inspected aud notices served where necessary. | |||||||||
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1913, there were 32 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 13 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 19 in the Holborn District.
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