London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Carshalton 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
This page requires JavaScript
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment)
Act, 1933.
No applications were received during the year.
Factories and Workplaces.
The following premises were on the register at the end of the year :—
| Factories with mechanical power .. 54 | 537 |
| Factories without mechanical power 57 | 132 |
| Outworkers premises .. .. 76 | 79 |
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 and the Factories Act,
1937.
The following table, set out in the manner prescribed in Home
Office Form 572, indicates the inspections carried out and the
action taken under the above Acts :—
1. INSPECTIONS for purposes of provisions as to health. (Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.)
| PREMISES | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Written Notices | Occupiers prosecuted | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories with mechanical power | 79 | 2 | — |
| Factories without mechanical power | 105 | — | — |
| *Other premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering, but not including outworkers' premises) | — | — | — |
| Total | 184 | 2 | — |
* Electrical Stations should be reckoned as factories.
68