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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
Camberwell 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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xxii.
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. | 61 | 2 | 1 | 62 | – | 147 | 19 | – |
| Factory Bakehouses | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Other Factories | 63 | 11 | 4 | 70 | – | |||
| Workshops. | • I | |||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 79 | 5 | 5 | 79 | 212 | 177 | 20 | – |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 203 | 33 | 5 | 231 | – | 925 | 15 | – |
| Other Workshops | 445 | 536 | 58 | 923 | 1,166 | 1,294 | 307 | _ |
| Workplaces. | I I | |||||||
| Outworkers' Premises | 990 | 824 | 374 | 1,440 | – | 721 | 9 | – |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 50 | 31 | – | 81 | – | 69 | 20 | – |
| Workplaces other than the above | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 1,891 | 1,442 | 447 | 2,886 | 1,378 | 3,333 | 390 | – |
cation of these remarks to such fluctuating trades as dress-making
is obvious.
The last certificates for underground bakehouses were
only passed at a meeting of the Council in the present year
(1901). One has been voluntarily closed by the occupier on
account of our minimum demand being too onerous. In all,
sixty-seven certificates have been granted. The regulations
insisted on by the Committee and set forth in their report have
been, in the main, carried out; where any departure from
them has been allowed it has been after a visit of the SubCommittee
to the premises in question. The result of the
change in the law has been very beneficial to those employed
in such places—some bakehouses having been improved out of
all knowledge.