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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
Bromley 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Annual Report of Medical Offieer of Health for 1904, for the
Rural District of Bromley.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sa,nitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Inspections. | Number of Written Notices. | Prosecutions. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factories | 3 | Nil. | |
| (Including Factory Laundries.) | |||
| Workshops | 190 | 16 | „ |
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) | |||
| Workplaces | |||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 4 | „ | |
| Total | 197 | 16 | Nil. |
2-DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecution. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—* | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 61 | 61 | Nil. | Nil. |
| Want of Ventilation | ||||
| Overcrowding | ||||
| Want of drainage to floors | 3 | 3 | „ | „ |
| Other nuisances | ||||
| insufficient ‡Sanitary accommodation unsuitable or defective not separate for sexes | ||||
| Offences tender the Factory and Workshop Act— | ||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | ||||
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107)... | ||||
| Giving out work to be done J unwholesome (S. 108)... | ||||
| in premises which are | infected (S. 110) | ||||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises | ||||
| infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) ... | ||||
| Other offeDces | ||||
| Total | 64 | 64 | Nil. | Nil. |
•Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the
Public Health Acts.
JFor districts not in London state here whether Section 22 of the Public Health Acts Amendment
Act, 1890, has been adopted by the District Council ; and if so what standard of sufficiency and
suitability of sanitary accomnii dation for persons employed in factories and workshops has been
enforced.