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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Matters dealth, with in connection with Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number ok Defects. | Notices Issued | Prosecutions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Notified by Home Office | Remedied | Notified to Home Office | |||||
| Matters under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | ||||||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 121 | 37 | 158 | — | 158 | — | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 15 | 16 | 31 | — | 31 | — | ||
| Want of Air Space: Overcrowding | 27 | 1 | 28 | — | 28 | — | ||
| Sanitary Accommodation, (s. 38). | Insufficient | 15 | 2 | 17 | — | 17 | — | |
| Unsuitable | 273 | 31 | 304 | — | 304 | — | ||
| Not separate for Sexes | 11 | 7 | 18 | — | 18 | — | ||
| Want of Drainage of Floors | 4 | — | 4 | — | 4 | — | ||
| Other Nuisances | 274 | 3 | 277 | — | 277 | 4 | ||
| Contraventions of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. | ||||||||
| Occupying Underground Bakehouse without Certificate | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (s. 107) | 51 | — | 51 | — | 36 | 15 | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | Unwholesome (s. 108) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Infected (s. 110) | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in Premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Smallpox (s. 109) | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Other Contraventions | 66 | — | — | 66 | — | — | ||
| Total | 857 | 97 | 888 | 66 | 873 | 19 | ||