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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

Croydon 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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91
WORKPLACES.
At the end of the year there were 69 workplaces on the register,
36 visits to eating-house kitchens have been made, and 4 nuisances
discovered and abated.

Table: The following is a list of the various matters which required attention :-

The following is a list of the various matters which required attention :-

Factories.WorkshopsLaundriesBakehouses.Workplaces.Outworkers.Total
Screening of W.C's.42----6
Cleansing, etc.-12-272142
Insufficient W.C. accommodation74----11
Defective ditto4414812--78
Overcrowding-1---1
Dustbins-------
Paving-----–-
Want of ventilation of stoves-8---_8
Want of intervening ventilated space12----3
Drinking water supply19-----19
Sundry defects8143122-39
8357115141207

Table: Preliminary Notices served—

Preliminary Notices served—

Factories11
Workshops9
Workplace1
Bakehouses2
23

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These 23 notices were duly complied with ; the remainder of
the matters requiring attention were satisfactorily dealt with by
verbal notice.
Sixty communications were sent to H.M. Inspector of
Factories in accordance with the various requirements of the Act.
SMOKE NUISANCES.
There were no complaints of smoke nuisances.
RAG FLOCK ACT, 1912.
Fourteen inspections were made of premises occupied by
upholsterers and bedding manufacturers. Very little private work
was done in the workshops at the beginning of the year as a consequence
of the war.