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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

Bexley 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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Table: TABLE No. 6.Factories Act, 1937.1. Inspections for Purposes of Provisions as to Health. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

TABLE No. 6.

Factories Act, 1937.

1. Inspections for Purposes of Provisions as to Health. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

Premises.Number of:—
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
1234
Factories with mechanical power815—
Factories without mechanical power127——
† Other Premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises)
† Electrical Stations should be reckoned as factories. Total2085

Table: 2. Defects Found.

2. Defects Found.

ParticularsNumber of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M Inspector.
i2345
Want of cleanliness (S. 1)78——
Overcrowding (S. 2)
Unreasonable temperature (S. 3)
Inadequate ventilation (S. 4)
Ineffective drainage of floors (S. 6)
Sanitary Conveniences (S. 7)—
Insufficient
Unsuitable or defective87——
Not separate for sexes1
Other Offences1——
(Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry;it' Health {Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted ill the Third Schedule to the Factories Act. 1937.)
Total1616——