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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 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Factories and Workshops.

Table: TABLE XLI.DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

TABLE XLI.

DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1)Number. (2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, are enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses56
Workshop Laundries23
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops111
Bootmakers106
Smiths and Engineers35
Builders45
Tailors66 -
Motor Engineers75
Upholsterers Hairdressers23 31
Other285
Total number of workshops on Register856

Table: TABLE XLII.DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

TABLE XLII.

DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

Particulars.Number of Defects.No. of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:-*
Want of cleanliness145_—
Want of ventilation—__—
Overcrowding————
Want of drainage of floors——__
Other Nuisances116—
Sanitary accommodation: Insufficient22
Unsuitable or defective105-—
Not separate for sexes——-—
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101)
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921)
Total3718

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.