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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
Willesden 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 37.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1. INSPECTION.— Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Reinspec tions. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Factories (including factory laundries) | 49 | 20 | 9 | — | ||
| Workshops (including Workshop laundries) | .378 | 96 | 87 | — | ||
| Workplaces | — | — | — | — | ||
| Home workers premises | 100 | 8 | 10 | — | ||
| Total | 527 | 124 | 106 | — | ||
| 2. DEFECTS FOUND. | ||||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
| Found. | Remedied. | lief erred to h.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Nuisances under Public Health Acts:- | ||||||
| Want of cleanliness | 101 | 101 | — | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | 10 | 10 | — | — | ||
| Overcrowding | l | l | — | — | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 15 | 15 | — | — | ||
| Other nuisances | 107 | 107 | — | — | ||
| Sanitary accommodations | insufficient | 6 | 6 | — | — | |
| unsuitable or defective | 39 | 39 | — | — | ||
| not separate for sexes. | 5 | 5 | — | — | ||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | ||||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100; | 3 | 3 | — | — | ||
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | ||||||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S 108) | _ | ||||
| infected (S. 110) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) | ||||||
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | ||
| Total | 287 | 287 | — | — | ||