London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1903
Report on the public health of 1903
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Works. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections, 1903. | Number of Notices, 1903. | Number of Prosecutions, 1903. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On Register at end of 1903. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | ||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | — | 4 | — | 4 | — | 4 | 455 | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Other Factories | — | 159 | — | 159 | — | 318 | 3 | ||
| Workshops* | Workshop Laundries | 30 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 104 | 10 | — | |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 66 | 1 | 5 | 62 | 200 | 248 | — | ||
| Other Workshops | 1269 | 345 | 55 | 1559 | 3070 | 1716 | 1 | ||
| Workplaces | Outworkers' Premises | 258 | 326 | 83 | 501 | — | 302 | 13 | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 325 | 32 | 13 | 344 | 576 | 1186 | 180 | — | |
| Workplaces other than the above | [Included in other workshops.] | ||||||||
| Total | 1948 | 871 | 160 | 2659 | 3950 | 3784 | 648 | 4 | |
* In a separate Table the more important classes of workshop industry are distinguished (See page 168).
†A Register is required by s. 131 in the case of Workshops only.
‡ Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants, Eating Houses of all sorts, Tripe, Fried Fish and Eel Shops, and other
places where food is prepared.