Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Barnet]
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Annual Report of Medical Officer of Health for 1907,
FOR THE URBAN DISTRICT OF EAST BARNET VALLEY.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
I.- INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises. | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 9 | 1 | none. |
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 60 | 1 | none. |
Workplaces | - | - | - |
Homeworkers' Premises | 6 | — | — |
Total | 75 | 2 | none. |
2.-DEFECTS FOUND.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Want of cleanliness | |||||
Want of ventilation | |||||
Overcrowding | |||||
Want of drainage of floors | |||||
Other nuisances | |||||
†Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | ||||
unsuitable or defective | |||||
not separate for sexes | |||||
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101). | |||||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100). | |||||
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 | 2 | 2 |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory Act
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
† For districts not in London state here whether Section 22 of the Public
Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, has been adopted by the District Council;
and if so what standard of sufficiency and suitability of sanitary
accommodation for persons employed in factories and workshops has been
enforced.