London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1964

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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Table: TABLE No. 4.factories act,137and 19481.INSPECTIONS FOR PURPOSES OF PROVISIONS AS TO HEALTH, INCLUDING INSPECTIONS MADE BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS.

TABLE No. 4.

factories act,137and 1948

1.INSPECTIONS FOR PURPOSES OF PROVISIONS AS TO HEALTH, INCLUDING INSPECTIONS MADE BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS.

PremisesNumber of:
Inspections .Written NoticesProsecutions .
1234
Factories without mechanical power3––
Factories with mechanical power3473–
*Other Premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises) *Electrical Stations should be reckoned as factories.1––
Total1513–
2. DEFECTS FOUND.
ParticularsNumber of defects
FoundReme-diedKeferred to H.m. Inspector.Number of Prosecutions .
12345
Want of cleanliness(S.1)22––
Overcrowding
Unreasonable temperature(s.3)
Inadequate ventilation(S.4)
Ineffective drainage of floors (S.6)
Sanitary Conveniences (s.7)
Insufficient33
Unsuitable or defective22
Not separate for sexes
Other Offences (Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers)Order, 1921 and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to the Factories Act, 1937)
TOTAL77––