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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
Surbiton 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces & Homework.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 4 | ||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 84 | ||
| Workplaces | 2 | ||
| Homeworkers' Premises Total | 6 | ||
| 96 | 8 | ||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Refeir'd to H.M. Insp'ct'r | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 1 | 1 | ||
| Want of Ventilation . . | 1 | 1 | ||
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | ||
| Want of Drainage of Floors | ||||
| Other Nuisances | 10 | 10 | ||
| tSanitary Accommodations— | ||||
| Insufficient | ||||
| Unsuitable or Defective | 6 | 6 | ||
| Not separate for Sexes | ||||
| Illegal Occupation of Underground Bakehouse (S. 101) Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) Failure as regard Lists of Outworkers (S. 107)............... | 1 | 1 | ||
| 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 | 20 | 20 | ||
* 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.