Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of 1902
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complete record of all the factories and workshops under our
jurisdiction. The following Table illustrates this systematic
inspection. Parts of olher streets have been inspected, but the
following ten streets are now complete and may serve as an
illustration of the system :—
Street
Workshops on
Register. 1901.
Workshops added to
Register, 1902
Workshops
Rooms.
Total Workshops on
Register, IMS
Notices issued for—
Workshops
dirty.
Workshops
overcrowded.
Insufficient wo.
Accommodation
W.C's
reconstructed,
cleansed, &c
Miscellaneous
Workshops—no
Abstract affixed.
Gloucester St. — 26 32 26 6 — — 5 4 5
King Square 17 2 5 19 4 — — 55 1
Meredith St. — 15 25 15 1 — — 2 5 3
Percival St. 19 33 51 52 14 — 1 19 11 3
Powell Street 9 1 6 10 1 — — 5 — 1
President St. 24 — — 24 10 — — 8 5 —
Rahere Street 21 2 3 23 3 — — 10 4 2
Skinner St. — 13 16 13 6 — — 8 3 2
Spencer St. 3 43 55 46 15 1 — 12 10 4
Whiskin St. — 9 14 9 2 — — 2 3 1
Total 93 144 207 237 62 1 1 76 50 22
II. Special Sanitary Regulations for Bakehouses.
The whole question of Bakehouses was reported upon by me
in a special report (54 pp.) in October, 1902. In order to make
the subject clear to the owners of Bakehouses, I summarized in
simple form the practical effect of all the legislation under all
and any Acts dealing with sanitation in Bakehouses. " What