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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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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Works | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections, 1904. | Number of Notices, 1904. | Number of Prosecutions, 1904. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1903. | Added in 1904. | Removed in 1904. | On Register at end of 1904. | ||||||||
| Premises | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 24 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 70 | 92 | 21 | Nil. | ||
| Factory Bakehouses | 4 | 1 | — | 5 | 13 | 19 | 3 | ||||
| Other Factories | 65 | 34 | 11 | 88 | 340 | 594 | 54 | ||||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 67 | _ | 26 | 41 | 105 | 3,008 | 410 | |||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 91 | I | 3 | 89 | 140 | ||||||
| Other Workshops | 383 | 59 | 79 | 363 | 450 | ||||||
| Outworkers' Premises | 178 | 9 | 10 | 177 | 177 | 343 | 98 | ||||
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale1 | 149 | 5 | — | 154 | 170 | 480 | 47 | |||
| Other Workplaces | 66 | 8 | 15 | 59 | 117 | 165 | 36 | ||||
| Total | 1,027 | 119 | 145 | 1,001 | 1,582 | 4,701 | 669 | ||||
* Under this head are included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, eating-houses of all sorts, tripe, fried fish and eel shops and
other places where food is prepared.