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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
Wimbledon 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Registered Workshops.
| The following are the principal classes of workshops on the register at the end of the year:— | |
| Boot Repairing | 48 |
| Dressmaking | 49 |
| *Bakehouses | 29 |
| Laundries | 24 |
| Tailoring | 26 |
| Millinery | 27 |
| Dining Rooms | 17 |
| Cycles | 14 |
| Other Trades | 57 |
| Total | 291 |
OTHER MATTERS.
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of Act | 4 | |
| Action taken in matters referred to H.M. Inspector as remedial under the Public Health | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 8 |
| Reports of action taken sent to H.M. Inspector | 8 | |
| Other | 1 | |
| Underground bakehouses in use at the end of the year | 3 | |
*Including four Factory Bakehouses'
As a result of the inspection of the workrooms, workshops
and workplaces in the Borough, it was found that for
the most part they were in a satisfactory condition, and that
the requirements of the Act were duly observed by the occupiers.
Systematic examination has been made of the eating.
houses, cook'shops, and other places where food is prepared
for sale, and the occupiers of these, speaking generally, have
kept their places in good and cleanly order.
In no instance was it necessary to take legal proceedings
to enforce compliance with the requirements set out in the
notices served for the abatement of nuisauces.
In addition to the ordinary inspections made of outworkers'
premises, each address contained in the list received
in the early part of the year, i.e., previous to February, and
not including those received in August, were visited in order
to ascertain if work was still carried on, and if breaches of
the Act had been made by reason of the employer failing to
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