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 Walthamstow]
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III.—OTHER MATTERS.
Class. | Number. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Mattersnotified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories:— | ||||
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | — | |||
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable, under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory Act (S. 5). | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 1 | ||
Reports (of action taken (sent to H.M. Inspectors | 1 | |||
Other | — | |||
Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | ||||
In use during 1903 | 7 | |||
Certificates granted | in 1903 | — | ||
in 1904 | 6 | |||
In use at the end of 1904 | 6 | |||
Number of | ||||
Homework:— | Lists. | Outworkers. | ||
Lists received | 126 | 753 | ||
Addresses of outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 29 | ||
received from other Authorities | 402 | |||
Wearing Apparel. | Other. | |||
Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108) | — | — | ||
Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers' premises | 4 | — | ||
Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | 4 | — | ||
Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1904:— | ||||
Bakehouses | 51 | |||
Laundries | 49 | |||
Total number of workshops on Register | 147 |
*The Lists should be received twice in the year. The year's figures required in the Table are
then obtained by adding together the two half-yearly totals.