Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factories and Workshops. 1ll
TABLE XLII.
DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHQPS.
Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | |
(1) | (2) | |
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, are enumerated here. | Workshop Bakehouses | 50 |
Workshop Laundries | 20 | |
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops | 89 | |
Bootmakers | 94 | |
Smiths and Engineers | 30 | |
Builders | 43 | |
Tailors | 62 | |
Motor Engineers | 76 | |
Upholsterers | ||
Hairdressers | 47 | |
Other | 293 | |
Total number of workshops on Register | 826 |
TABLE XLIII.
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 cleanliness | 12 | - | - | |
Want of ventilation | — | — | - | - |
Overcrowding | — | — | - | - |
Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Other Nuisances | 14 | 14 | - | — |
Sanitary accommodation: | ||||
Insufficient | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Unsuitable or defective | 19 | 18 | - | - |
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) | - | - | - | - |
47 | 45 | - | - |
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.