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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 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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Underground Workrooms.
There are 29 underground workrooms in the Battersea
workshops and workplaces, not counting underground bakehouses,
and the number in each trade is given on the following
page.
WORKSHOPS.
| Laundries | 5 |
| Dressmaking | 2 |
| Embroidery | 1 |
| Picture frame making | 3 |
| Cycle making | 1 |
| Tailoring | 1 |
WORKPLACES.
| Restaurant kitchens | 6 |
| Meat-chopping | 2 |
| Small exempted laundries | 8 |
Factories.
The Factory Act contains a special sanitary code for
factories, which is administered by the Factory Inspectors;
but for the most part this code supplements, not displaces, the
provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, which are
administered by the Sanitary Authorities. The definition of the
word "house" in the latter Act includes a factory, and where
there is no express statutory provision to the contrary, the
sections of that Act apply to factories as to dwelling houses.
Moreover, section 38 of the Public Health Act lays upon the
Sanitary Authorities the duty of securing for the workers
"sufficient and suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary
conveniences " in all factories.