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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 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Table L.
| Class of Works. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections, 1922. | Number of Notices. | Number of Prosecutions, 1922. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1921. | Added in 1922. | Removed in 1922. | On Register at end of 1922. | Intimation, 1922. | Statutory, 1922. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | |||
| Premises. | Rooms. | |||||||||
| Factories— Factory Laundries | 75 | 1 | .. | 76 | 301 | 134 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factory Bakehouses | 61 | 2 | 63 | 84 | 209 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | |
| Other Factories | 420 | 34 | 14 | 440 | 1,362 | 621 | 45 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Workshops— Workshop Laundries | 68 | .. | 6 | 62 | 192 | 106 | 3 | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 72 | 1 | 2 | 71 | 71 | 317 | 6 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other Workshops .. .. ,. | 1,059 | 88 | 89 | 1,058 | 1,468 | 1,412 | 100 | 5 | .. | .. |
| Workplaces— Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 543 | 57 | 64 | 536 | 567 | 638 | 45 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Workplaces other than the above | 412 | 36 | 74 | 374 | 482 | 377 | 26 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Home-workers' premises | 453 | 112 | 143 | 422 | 422 | 660 | 22 | .. | .. | |
| Total | 3,163 | 331 | 392 | 3,102 | 4,949 | 4,474 | 251 | 10 | .. | .. |