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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
Southgate 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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ANNUAL REPORT, 1938
On the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and
the Factories Act, 1937, in connection with
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Pro seen tions. | |||
| 1937 | 1938 | 1937 | 1938 | ||
| Factories with Mechanical Power | 280 | ?6 | .. | ||
| 29 | 24 | .. | |||
| 10 | 10 | 1 | .. | ||
| .. | |||||
| Partioulare. | Number of Defects. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred toH.M. Inspector. | Number of defects in respect of which prosecutions were instituted. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness (S. 1) | 73 | 73 | |||
| Overcrowding (S. 2) | |||||
| 1 treasonable temperature (S. 3) | |||||
| Inadequate Ventilation (S. 4) | |||||
| Ineffective d Sanitary-Convenience | drainage of floors (S. 6) | ||||
| Insufficient .. | |||||
| unsuitable or defective | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| (S. 7) 1 not separate for sexes Other Offences | 3 | 3 | - | ||
| (Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Hen 1th (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Poweisi Order, 1921, and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to the Factories Act, 1037.) | |||||
| Total | 80 | 80 | |||