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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
186 inspections were made of factories, 1,008 of workshops,
61 of domestic workshops, 351 of workplaces, and 208 of outworkers'
premises, while 377 premises were visited for inquiry
and no workroom found.
There were only two cases of overcrowding discovered, compared
with four in 1908, four in 1907, five in 1906, 12 in 1905, and
17 in 1904, and these were at once abated. 56 were found to be in
a dirty condition, compared with 25 in 1908, and 66 in 1907.
In two factories and one workshop the sanitary accommodation
was insufficient. Two of these were remedied during the
year 1909, while one, for which notice was served in December,
was remedied in January of the present year.
In every workshop inspected during the year there were
separate water closets for the sexes, but in six factories and 34
workshops the water closets were defective.
Other nuisances were discovered in four factories, 20 workshops,
17 workplaces, and seven outworkers' premises, and these
have all been abated.
It was only necessary to serve 113 intimation notices, and
these were all complied with with the exception of 13, five in
Clapham, three in Tooting, and five in Wandsworth. These
notices were complied with in the beginning of the current year.
It was not necessary to serve any statutory notices during the
year.
104 workshops and eight domestic workshops where females
were employed were reported to H.M. Inspectors of Workshops,
and 113 were reported to this Council by H.M. Inspector.
Only 18 of the workshops reported by H.M. Inspector were
unknown to the Sanitary Inspectors. The other 95 had been
previously reported by me, or were already on the Register.