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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
Battersea 1904
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904
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2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Difects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | |||||
| Nil. | Nil. | ||||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 192 | 192 | |||||
| Want of Ventilation | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Overcrowding | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Want of drainage of floors | 31 | 31 | |||||
| Other Nuisances | 350 | 350 | |||||
| Sanitary accommodations | Insufficient | 9 | 9 | ||||
| Unsuitable or defective | 175 | 175 | |||||
| Not Separate for Sexes | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Illegal Occupation of Underground Bakehouse (sec. 101) | — | — | |||||
| Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (secs. 97 to 100) | 68 | 68 | |||||
| Failure as regard Lists of Outworkers (sec. 107) | — | — | |||||
| Giving out work to to be done in premises which are | Unwholesome (sec. 108) | — | — | ||||
| Infected (sec. 110) | — | — | |||||
| Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Smallpox (sec. 109) | — | — | |||||
| Other Offences | 3 | — | 3 | — | |||
| Total | 857 | 854 | 3 | — | |||
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under
the Public Health Acts.