[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 74

London County Council 1908

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

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Table: TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY

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TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY

Premises, Particulars, Class, &c.						Paddinglon.	Kensington.	Hammersmith.	Fulham.	Chelsea.	City of Westminster.	St; Marylebone.	Hampstead.	St. Pancras.	Islington.	Stoke Newington.
1. Inspections.
Factories (including factory laundries)						165	185	408	105	1	74	2	I 168	183	434	32
Workshops (including workshop laundries)						1,338	3,173	1,395	785	361	2,543	374	1,208	1,160	2,008	258
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises)						50	311	678	350	72	2,252	378	698	209	1,620	9
Total (Inspections)						1,553	3,669	2,481	1,240	434	4,869	754	2,074	1.552	4,062	299
2. Defects found Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.
Want of cleanliness						33	213	83	93	10	834	34	32	83	719	61
Want of ventilation						7	31	2	4	—	189	—	3	—	12	—
Overcrowding						7	12		3	-	58	5	8	-	8	-
Want of drainage of floors							5	4	5	-	66	-	—	-	72	5
Other nuisances						6	129	125	14	9	704	6	76	5	558	26
Sanitary accommodation		Insufficient				2	32	5	7	2	22	-	4	11	12	1
		Unsuitable				11	96	38	24	-\|	565	4	16	8	551	28
		Not separate for sexes				1	6	2	2	-	140	5	4	3	10	-
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act.
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)						•	-	—-	—		-	^—	1	-	—	-
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97-100)						-	-	85	8	6	—	4	-	40	-	-
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork)						-	2	—	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	—
Total (defects found)						67	526	344	160	27	2,578	58	144	151	1,942	111
3. HOMEWORK. Outworkers' Lists (s. 107).
Received twice in the year from-employers			r Number of Lists			122	120	42	26	64	649	150	142	38	698	26
			Number of out- '			529	968	98	93	739	8,091	1,898	466	228	4,978	269
			j workers corres-						93	739	8,091	1,898		228	4,978	269
			[ ponding thereto
Received once in the year from-employers			Number of Lists			27	27	16	3	9	19	-	7	5	339	9
			Number of out-			51	80	45	3	26	141	-	17	18	2,436	35
			workers corros-						3		141		17	18	2,436	35
			ponding thereto
Number of addresses of outworkers received from other Councils						350	302	333	331	114	505	1,299	63	954	2,715	629
Number of addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils						316	832	86	45	580	3,321	1,347	412	137	1,431	151
Prosecutions	Failing to keep lists or permit inspection thereof									"
Failing to send lists Outworkers' Premises.						-	-	—	—	—		-	-	-	—	—
Number of inspections of outworkers' premises						299	383	116	195	90	1,062	164	111	324	869	77
Outwork in unwhole- some premises (s. 108)					Instances	-	13	9	3	3	371	-	-	1	141	-
					Notices served	-	13	9	3	3	456	-	-	1	79	-
					Prosecutions	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)					Instances	24	17	-	-	-	249	-	-	2	38	5
					\| Orders made (s. 110)	—	-	—	—	—	—	-	—	-	-	—
					Prosecutions (ss. 109. 110)	-	-	—	—	-	—	-	—	-	-	—
4. Registered Workshops.
Workshops en the Register at the end of 1908. Bakehouses						64	95	55	69	38	84	78	35	179	244	27
Laundries						846	197	305	58	14	49	2,984	8	74	132	20
Other workshops Total (number of workshops on						846	1,285	535	362	538	2,691	2,984	474	1,413	1,354	161
the Register)						910	1,577	895	489	590	2,824	3,062	517	1,666	1,730	208
5. Other Matters. Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories. Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)						5	85	-	-	17	221	-	44	6	159	-
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5). Other				Notified by H.M. Inspector Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector		11	15	11	6	14	126	44	-	14	1	7
						8	12	11	6	12	126	18	-	14	1
						-	6	6	-	1	24	-	-	-	-	-
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101)
Certificates granted during 1908						-	—	-	-	-	—	-	-	-	-	-
In use at the end of 1908						57	75	33	50	26	71	70	22	160	99	19