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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
Holborn 1904
Report for the year 1904 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places ‡ | Number ofInspections. 1904. | Numberof Notices 1904. | Number of Prosecutions 1904. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1903. | Addedin 1904. | Removed in 1904. | On Register at end of 1904. | ||||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||||
| Factories ‡ | Factory Laundries | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | — | — | — | |||
| Factory Bakehouses | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 9 | — | ||||
| Other Factories | Included under Work shops. | 2 | |||||||||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 13 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 38 | 54 | 6 | — | — | |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 37 | — | 4 | 33 | — | 272 § | 17 | — | 1 | ||
| Other Workshops | 691 | 133 | 78 | 746 | 1,177 | 854 | 174 | 52 | — | ||
| Workplaces | Home workers' Premises* | 113 | 29 | 43 | 99 | 144 | 125* | 20 | 6 | — | |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 313 | 43 | 31 | 318 | — | 925 | 30 | 10 | — | ||
| Workplaces other than the above || | 121 | Included in other Work shops. | |||||||||
| Total | 1,169 | 216 | 159 | 1,219 | 1,359 | 2,360 | 247 | 68 | 3 | ||
* There were in addition, many inspections of Outworkers' Premises made during the house.to.house inspections of Lodging
Houses and other Dwelling Houses.
† Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating.houses of all sorts. Tripe, Offal, and other
Meat Shops Fried Fish, Eel, and other fish Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding
Bakehouses which are given above.
‡ Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them were inspected during
1904, and notices served where necessary.
§ Many Inspections of Underground Bakehouses were also made by the Borough Surveyor and the Medical Officer of Health
in connection with the requirements for the Council's Certificate.
|| There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not required, and many of
them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
Further details of defects which were found and other matters are given in Table VII. (1), (2)
and (3) of the Appendix.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1904, there were 34 bakehouses in the Borough of which 17 were in St.
Giles and Bloomsbury and 17 in the Holborn Division.
The following is a list of the bakehouses in the Borough:—
St. Giles and Bloomsburby.
2 Bloomsbury Court.
10 Bury Street.
166 Drury Lane.
155 High Holborn.
162 High Holborn.
217 & 218 High Holborn (Holborn Restaurant).
63 High Street.
19 Little Earl Street.
5 Little St. Andrew Street.
21 Marchmont Street.
77 Marchmont Street.
8 Museum Street.
60 Neal Street.
24, 26 and 28 New Oxford Street.
200 Shaftesbury Avenue.
88 Southampton How.
6 Torrington Place.
Holborn.
172 Clerkenwell Road.
9 Cosmo Place.
49 to 57 Farringdon Road (Factory).
33 Great Ormond Street.
1 Greville Street.
91 Leather Lane.
6 Lamb's Conduit Street.
28 Lamb's Conduit Street.
50 Lamb's Conduit Street.
13 Leigh Street.
19 Red Lion Street.
50 Red Lion Street.
74 Red Lion Street.
92 Theobald's Road.
124 Theobald's Road.
136 Theobald's Road.
36 Warner Street.