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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
Deptford 1903
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1903
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MATTERS DEALT WITH.
| PARTICULARS. | Number of 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 | 22 | 1 | 23 | 1 | |||
| Want of Ventilation | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Want of Air Space : Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sanitary Accommodation (s. 38) | Insufficient | 8 | 7 | 4 | |||
| Unsuitable | 8 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Not Separate for Sexes | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Want of Drainage of Floors | |||||||
| Other Nuisances | 37 | 37 | |||||
| Contraventions of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. | |||||||
| Occupying Underground Bakehouse without Certificate | |||||||
| Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | 85 | 85 | |||||
| Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (s. 107) | |||||||
| Giving out work to be done in prermises which are | Unwholesome(s. 108) | ||||||
| Infected (s.110) | |||||||
| Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in Premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Small Pox (s. 109) | |||||||
| Other Contraventions | |||||||
| Total | 163 | 1 | 163 | 1 | 6 | ||