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
Chiswick 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick]
This page requires JavaScript
ANNUAL REPORT of MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for 1911 for the
URBAN DISTRICT OF CHISWICK
on the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Acts, in connection with
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES & HOMEWORK.
1—
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 27 | 2 | |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 149 | 5 | |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | 51 | 4 | |
| Total | 227 | 11 | |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of Cleanliness | 5 | 5 | |||
| Want of Ventilation | |||||
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | |||||
| Other Nuisances | 3 | 3 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 1 | 1 | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 1 | 1 | |||
| not separate for sexes | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | |||||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses ss. 97 to 100) | |||||
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report). | |||||
| Total | 11 | 11 | |||
| NATURE OF WORK. (1) | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending Lists. (4) | ||
| Twice in the year. | |||
| Lists. ‡ (2) | Outworkers. ‡ (3) | ||
| Wearing Apparel— (1) making, &c. | 8 | 16 | 8 |
| (2) cleaning and washing | |||
| Total | 8 | 16 | 8 |
| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bake-houses, may be enumerated here. | Workshops | 131 |
| Workplaces | 38 | |
| Total number of workshops on Register | 169 | |
| Class. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | ||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 6 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 6 | |
| Other | ||
| Underground Bakehouses (s. 101) :— | ||
| Certificates granted during the year | ||
| In use at the end of the year | 3 | |
*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Acts as remediable under
the Public Health Acts.
‡ The figures required in columns 2 and 3 are the total number of lists received from employers who sent
them both in February and August as required by the Act and of the entries of names of outworkers in those
lists. They will, therefore, usually be double of the number of such employers and (approximately) double of
the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same
employer the same outworker's name will often be repeated.