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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

City of London 1894

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894

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137
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS,
1878 TO 1891.
For the better understanding of the
provisions and scope of these Acts, I have
extracted the following from your Solicitor's
report:—
“The Commissioners of Sewers being constituted
the Sanitary Authority for the
“City of London, the responsibility of
“carrying out all the sanitary provisions
“relating to factories and workshops, as
“defined by those Acts, in the City of
“London devolves upon them. Previous
“to the passing of the Act of 1891, the
“sanitary provisions relating to factories
“and workshops were contained in
“Sections 4, 33, 34, and 35 of the Act
“of 1878, and under Section 4 of that
“Act, on receipt of notice from the
“Factory Inspector of sanitary neglect,
“the duty was imposed on the Sanitary
“Authority of making enquiry, and taking
“Such action therein for enforcing the