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London County Council 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY

Premises, Particulars, Class, &cPaddington.Kensington.Hammersmith.FulhamChelsea.City of Westminster.St. Marylebone.Hampstead.St. Pancras.Islington.Stoke Newington.
Inspection.
Factories (including factory laundries)3458160111525212211236516
Workshops (including workshop laundries)1,3232,8431,7875724711,8661,6761,2299814,976162
Workplaces134461103051541,5307231,36612453610
Home workers' premises3082497522641510844221831,229170
Total (Inspections)1,9893,6192,5731,2186683,9063,2952,7391,4007,106358
Defects, &c., Found.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.
Want of cleanliness822231527519185828212355832
Want of ventilation347-2511618107
Overcrowding936395295112142
Want of drainage of floors26731413545
Other nuisances2310950654120532742733419
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient421419185252
unsuitable or defective1071514237831762511521
not separate for sexes45413334123
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act.
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101)-----------
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97-100)3989750--
Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107)5163047
Giving out work to be done in premises which are.unwholesome-----------
(S.108) infected (S. 110)-5---------
Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109).-----1-----
Other offences19-------5--
Total (defects)15256036718831571914862641,10781
Other Matters.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories.
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133)153429251103052181052
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under P. H. Acts but not under the Factory Act (S. 5).Notified by H.M. Inspector22251856975016133
Reports (of actiontaken) sent toH.M. Inspector2219185697396133
Other15416
Underground Bakehouses (S. 101).
Certificates granted in 190511--28
In use at the end of 1905617538503479752213310920
Homework.
Number of lists received84448534583121111054922115
Number of outworkers421403189965172,0521,2773313031,793143
Addresses of cut-workersForwarded to other authorities246299504638064241027317694778
Received from other authorities18319713912557283509315501,903476
Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108)---
Cases of infectious disease notified in hemeworkers' premises15131111
Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110)------
Workshops on the Register at the end of 1905 (S. 131).
Bakehouses799458694398843517826028
Laundries1712273248834302,570688161342
Other Workshops1,1821,2895212804342,3576461,0931,872
Total (Workshops)1,4321,6109034375112,4852,6546871,3592,293370