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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
156 notices were served, compared with 58 in 1901, and in
only two instances was it necessary to take proceedings at the
Police Court. In these two cases the nuisances were the absence
of sanitary conveniences for the workpeople. As the work of
providing these was begun before the cases were heard the summonses
were withdrawn on the payment of costs.
During the year several cases of lock-up shops have come
under my observation in which there was no sanitary convenience,
and in which it was practically impossible to erect one. Arrangements
were made for the persons employed to use one in close
proximity, or for one convenience to be used by the occupiers of
several shops, provided no women were employed. In the latter
case conveniences had to be arranged for.
The works carried out include cleansing of workrooms, and
the repair, etc., of water-closets, and in several cases the waterclosets
were found to be dirty, but all notices with respect to these
were promptly attended to by the occupiers.
The number of workshops in which men only are employed
on the Register at the end of the year is as follows:—124 in
Clapham, 54 in Putney, 82 in Streatham, seven in Tooting, and
61 in Wandsworth.