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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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The total number of workshops on the register was 1,486,
including 390 domestic workshops, 155 retail bakehouses, 129
laundries, and 812 other workshops, but not including 202
factories, 671 workplaces, and 317 outworkers' premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there are now on the register 2,676 premises,
comprising 4,032 rooms, of which 1,244 were added in 1903. The
number of inspections made during the year was 5,554 and the
number of notices served, which include 68 statutory and 473.
intimation, was 541.
The total number of prosecutions was five, particulars of
which are given in the Table of Police Court proceedings.
Under the head of other workshops is included domestic
workshops, and under the head of places where food is prepared
for sale is included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, tripe, fried
fish and eel shops, and other places where food is prepared.
The number of visits to workshop bakehouses was very large,
but this was owing to the special inspections of underground bakehouses
and the supervision of the work being carried out in them
to comply with the requirements of the Council. In future years
this number will be much less, the average number of visits to each
bakehouse being about four per annum. The same applies to
factory bakehouses, the three in which alterations were being
made necessitating about 65 visits.
The total number of nuisances found during the year was 667,
while 13 were notified by the Inspectors of the Home Office.
These necessitated the service of 516 notices, all of which with the
exception of five were remedied without legal proceedings. In
the five cases in which legal proceedings were taken the nuisances
were also abated.
25 notices were served for breach of sanitary requirements in
bakehouses, but these were all for not having the bakehouse
cleansed at the proper time and were complied with forthwith.
In all 705 matters were dealt with and 704 remedied, but it
was only necessary to serve 541 notices for two reasons. First a
large number was abated without service of notice, as for example
in the case of overcrowding in workshops only nine notices were