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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
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Factries and Workshops.
| Total Number of visits and re-visits | 372 |
| No. of Factories inspected | 9 |
| „ Workshops „ (including those of 63 outworkers) | 142 |
| „ „ already on register | 82 |
| „ „ placed on ,, | 60 |
| „ „ removed from „ | 30 |
| „ „ with no abstract affixed | 25 |
| „ Reports to Home Office | 21 |
| „ Workrooms inspected | 227 |
| „ „ measured | 94 |
| „ „ mixed (men and women) | 77 |
| „ „ women only | 150 |
| „ Women employed | 1565 |
| „ Workrooms in order | 116 |
| „ „ cleansed | 60 |
| „ „ overcrowded | 2 |
| „ Workshops with insufficient sanitary conveniences | 2 |
| „ „ „ no separate accommodation for the sexes | 3 |
| ,, Sanitary Conveniences cleansed 1% | 23 |
| „ „ „ defects remedied | 8 |
| „ other nuisances abated | 15 |
| „ Workplaces visited where no women were found to be employed | 22 |
| „ Notices served re Factories | 2 |
| „ „ „ re Workshops | 58 |
| „ re-visite to Workshops | 169 |
| to Factones | 4 |
| Complaint from Home Office (re Factory) | 1 |
| „ anonymous (re Workshop) | 1 |