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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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78 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
TABLE XL.
DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.
Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | |
---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | |
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | Workshop Bakehouses | 52 |
Workshop Laundries | 35 | |
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops | 152 | |
Bootmakers | 104 | |
Sm„hs and Engineers | 39 | |
Builders | 51 | |
Tailors | 65 | |
Motor Engineers | 55 | |
Upholsterers | 36 | |
Hairdressers | 26 | |
Other | 232 | |
Total number of workshops on Register | 847 |
TABLE XLI.
DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND
WORKPLACES.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | No. of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—* | ||||
Want of cleanliness | 74 | 57 | - | - |
Want of ventilation | — | — | - | - |
Overcrowding | — | — | - | - |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | - | - |
Other Nuisances | 13 | 11 | - | - |
San„ary accommodation: | ||||
Insufficient | 1 | I | - | - |
Unsu„able or defective | 51 | 37 | - | - |
Not separate for sexes | — | — | - | |
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— | ||||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101) | - | - | - | - |
Other offences | — | — | - | - |
(Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921) | ||||
Total | 139 | 106 | - | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.