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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
Coulsdon and Purley 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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INSPECTIONS OF FACTORIES AND WORKPLACES. Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors
| PREMISES. | NUMBER OF | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INSPECTIONS | WRITTEN NOTICES | OCCUPIERS PROSECUTED | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| FACTORIES with mechanical power. | 100 | - | - |
| WORKSHOPS without mechanical power. | 110 | - | - |
| OTHER PREMISES under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises) | 17 | — | — |
DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES. AND WORKPLACES.
| PARTICULARS | NUMBER OF DEFECTS. | NUMBER of DEFECTS IN RESPECT of WHICHPROSECUTION WERE INSTITUTED | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOUND. | REMEDIED | REFERRED TO H.m. INSPECTOR | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of Cleanliness (S.l) | 4 | 6 | |||
| Overcrowding (S.2) | - | - | |||
| Unreasonable temperature (S.J) | - | - | |||
| Inadequate ventilation (S.4) | 2 | ||||
| Ineffective drainage-of floors (S.6) | 1 | - | |||
| Sanitary Conveniencies (Sec.7) | insufficient | 1 | _ | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 6 | 3 | |||
| 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). | 6 | 6 | |||
| TOTAL | 20 | 15 | |||