Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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MATTERS DEALT WITH.
PARTICULARS. | NUMBER OF DEFECTS. | Notices Issued. | Prosecutions. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fotind. | Notified by Home Office. | Remedied. | Notified to Home Office. | ||||
Want of Cleanliness | 20 | — | 20 | — | 20 | — | |
Want of Ventilation | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | |
Want of Air Space: Overcrowding | 4 | — | 4 | — | 4 | — | |
Sanitary Accommodation (s. 38). | Insufficient | 1 | _ | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Unsuitable | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Not Separate for Sexes | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Want of Drainage of Floors | 3 | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | |
Other Nuisances | 8 | — | 8 | — | 8 | — | |
Occupying Underground Bakehouse without Certificate | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (s. 107) | — | — | — | _ | — | — | |
Giving out work Unwholes'me to be done in 1 (s. 108) premises which Infected | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | |
are (s. 110) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in Premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Small Pox (s. 109) | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Other Contraventions | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Total | 38 | — | 38 | — | 38 | — |
Abstract not affixed | 22 |
As to action taken in cases notified by H.M. Inspector | 4 |
Other cases | — |
Number of Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of 1903 | 34 |
Certificates granted (S. 101) | 32 |
Number of Workshop rooms measured | 56 |