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8 were found to be unoccupied when visited, 2 were already on the register, and 2
were in an adjoining Borough. The remainder were more or less unsatisfactory
from a sanitary point of view, and required the attention of the sanitary officers.
Some 32 written intimations were received from the Factory Inspector referring to
insanitary conditions and infringements of the law relating to public health in connection
with 61 workshops and workplaces. The chief insanitary conditions to
which the Factory Inspector directed attention were:—Dirty conditions of walls
and ceilings in 33 instances, dirty and dilapidated state of the workshops in 11,
defective or insufficient water-closet accommodation in 14, want of proper separate
and sanitary accommodation for the sexes in 2, and overcrowding in one instance.
These workshops were all inspected by the officers of the Borough Council, and the
necessary steps were taken to remove the insanitary conditions to which attention
was directed as well as a number of others which came under the observation of the
Sanitary Inspectors when visiting the premises. The results of the action thus
taken upon these intimations were reported to the Factory Inspector from time to
time during the year.
Including those brought under our notice by the Factory Inspector, 402 workshops
were dealt with and 366 sanitary notices were served upon the parties responsible
for keeping them in a proper sanitary condition. In a number of instances more
than one workshop was dealt with on the same notice. The following is an abstract
of the sanitary work carried out to comply with notices served in connection with

In 29 instances statutory notices under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
were served by order of the Health Committee, but there was no necessity for policecourt
proceedings.