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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

Chelsea 1905

Annual report for 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health

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46
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901,
IN CONNECTION WITH
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES
AND HOMEWORK.

Table: 1.—INSPECTION.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors ofNuisances.

1.—INSPECTION.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of

Nuisances.

premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Factories (including Factory Laundries.)2——
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries.)4717—
Workplaces15424—
Homeworkers' Premises41——
Total66831—

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

particulars.Number of Defects.Number ofProsecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred toH.m. Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :*
Want of cleanliness1919--
Want of ventilation......--
Overcrowding55--
Want of drainage of floors11--
Other nuisances44--
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient-_--
unsuitable or defective22--
not separate for sexes----
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:-
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)----
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100)----
Failure as regards lists of outworkers (s. 107)----
Giving out work unwholesome to be done in pre (s. 108)----
mises which are infected (s. 110)----
Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (s 109)----
Other offences----
Total3131--

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• Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health
Acts.