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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

Tottenham 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham District]

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84
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
In compliance with section 132, I have to submit a resume of
the work effected during the year—under the provisions of the above
Act— in the form prescribed by the Home Office:-

Table: 1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

PremisesNumber of
InspectionsWritten NoticesProsecutions
Factories (including Factory Laundries)154
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)74040...
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report)
Total89440...

Table: 2.—Defects Found.

2.—Defects Found.

ParticularsNumber of DefectsNumber of Prosecutions
FoundRemediedReferred to H.M. Inspector
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts1—
Want of Cleanliness99......
Want of ventilation33......
Overcrowding11......
Want of drainage of floors22......
Other nuisances3030......
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient33......
unsuitable or defective............
not separate for sexes............
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101)............
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (s.s. 97 to 100)............
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report)............
Total4848......

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*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.