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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Tables which follow summarise the work done during
the year by the female Sanitary Inspectors.
The total number of premises inspected was 1,994 (464 in
Clapham, 254 in Putney, 541 in Streatham, 104 in Tooting, and
631 in Wandsworth).
158 inspections were made of factories, 1,116 of workshops,
77 of domestic workshops, 478 of workplaces, and 165 of outworkers'
premises, while 281 premises were visited for enquiry
and no workroom found.
There were only four cases of overcrowding discovered, compared
with five in 1906, 12 in 1905, and 17. in 1904, and these were
at once abated. 13 were insufficiently ventilated, and 66 were
found to be in a dirty condition.
In every workshop inspected there were separate water
closets for the sexes, but in seven factories and nine workshops
the water closets were defective.
Other nuisances were discovered in seven factories, 34 workshops,
two domestic workshops, fifty workplaces, and eight outworkers'
premises, and these have all been abated.
It was only necessary to serve 123 intimation and nine statutory
notices, and these were all complied with. It was not
necessary to take any proceedings during the year.
49 workshops and two domestic workshops where females
were employed were reported to H.M. Inspector of Workshops,
and 103 were reported to this Council by H.M. Inspector.
Only 20 of the workshops reported by H.M. Inspector were
unknown to the Sanitary Inspectors. The others had been previously
reported by me, or were already on the Register.