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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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50
SECTION 5.
Factories and Bakehouses.
Particulars of inspections and other work carried out by the Factory Inspectors during 1950 are given in the following table:—
Number of visits to— | ||||
Factories (with mechanical power) | 3,323 | |||
Factories (without mechanical power) | 700 | |||
Workplaces | 604 | |||
Bakehouses | 518 | |||
Restaurants | 1,107 | |||
Power laundries | 10 | |||
Laundry receiving offices | 169 | |||
Outworkers' premises | 1,750 | |||
Geriatric | 157 | |||
Scabies and vermin cases | 197 | |||
Food control enquiries | 10 | |||
Water sampling | 45 | |||
Police Court | 3 | |||
Public Health Annexe | 125 | |||
Other visits | 323 | |||
Total | 9,041 | |||
Intimation Notices served relating to | Statutes under which served. | |||
Factories Act, 1937. | Public Health (London) Act, 1936. | Food and Drugs Act, 1938. | ||
Factories (with mechanical power) | 160 | 98 | 2 | |
Factories (without mechanical power) | 24 | 48 | — | |
Workplaces | 1 | 23 | — | |
Bakehouses | — | 5 | 29 | |
Restaurants and Canteens | — | 4 | 129 | |
Outworkers | — | — | — | |
Totals | 185 | 178 | 160 | |
Statutory notices served | 11 | 28 | 11 |
One summons was heard at Clerkenwell for the provision of separate sanitary
accommodation for the sexes, ventilation of W.C. and accumulation of rubbish.