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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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TABLE VII.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—Inspection.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Intimations. | Statutory. | |||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 1,189 | 227 | 62 | 3 |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | ||||
| Workplaces | 1,046 | |||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 125 | 20 | 6 | — |
| Total | 2,360 | 247 | 68 | 3 |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred toh.m. Inspector. | |||
| *Nuisanoes under the Public Health Acts:— | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 128 | 128 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 27 | 27 | — | 2 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 48 | 48 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 6 | 6 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 106 | 106 | — | — | |
| 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 small.pox (S. 109) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 336 | 336 | — | 3 | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.