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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XXXIX.Summary of Work under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878to1895.

TABLE XXXIX.

Summary of Work under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878to1895.

Dress-milkers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.
Workshops, number visited and inspected69137291497
Workshops, number of, re-inspected252386134
Workrooms, number of, inspected1384145031.055
Workrooms found to be overcrowded..1..1
Workrooms found to be insufficiently ventilated..448
Workrooms found to be in a dirty condition219930
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered910928
Workshops, workrooms therein measured..123
Workshops reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery....• •..
Workshops reported by H.M. Inspector25411
Workshops removed from register..••....
Written Intimation and Statutory Notices issued2282858
Works carried out under supervision :—
(a) Additionnl means of ventilation provided..448
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed214925
(c) Yards, floors, roofs, &c. repaired..19313
(d) Sanitary conveniences, dirty, ill-lighted, or defective in water supply4132946
(e) Dustbins wanting or defective..••....
(f) Miscellaneous defects remedied..448
Nuisances referred to Medical Officer of Health..7714