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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

St Pancras 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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still remained responsible for outworkers and domestic workshops and for
matters concerned with the employment of women.
A card index system of registration was adopted and the workshop inspector
at once commenced a routine inspection of all factories, workshops and workplaces
in the borough. This will take two years or more on the first occasion
as complete details and measurements are being recorded, and the details of
the old register checked. A six-monthly inspection of all bakehouses is also
being maintained during this time, and all complaints in regard to workshops,
&c., and all notices of new occupation of workshops dealt with.

Table: The number of inspections that were made during 1914 were as follows:—

The number of inspections that were made during 1914 were as follows:—

District Inspectors before 5th October.Workshop Inspector 5th October and after.Woman Sanitary Inspector.Total.
Inspections.Re-inspections.Inspections.Re-inspections.Inspections.Re-in- e spectios.Inspections.Re-inspections.
Bakehouses126129189100——315229
Restaurant kitchens118385———12338
Laundries————6262
Domestic workshops————212212
Other workshops3317872923214348
Other workplaces—2—————2
Other factories9927162—3825
Total286195308145526646346

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Bakehouses.—At the end of the year there were 132 bakehouses on the
register in use), including 17 factory bakehouses. 89 of these were
underground bakehouses.
Restaurant Kitchens.—At the end of 1914 338 restaurant kitchens were on
the register.