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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 1905
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Works. | Number of Places.‡ | Number of. Inspections, 1905. | Number of | Number of —Prosecutions, 1905. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1904. | Added in 1905. | Removed in 1905. | On Register at end of 1905. | Written Intimations, 1905. | Notices, 1905. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | ||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 8 | - | 2 | 6 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| Factory Bakehouses | — | - | — | — | - | — | - | - | - | - | |
| Other Factories | 346 | 131 | 17 | 466 | — | 704 | 117 | 9 | 10 | - | |
| Workshops* | Workshop Laundries | 24 | 8 | - | 32 | - | 41 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 61 | - | - | 61 | - | 166 | 34 | — | — | - | |
| Other Workshops | 1721 | 261 | 155 | 1827 | - | 1804 | 301 | 47 | 25 | - | |
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 330 | 47 | 3 | 374 | - | 542 | 209 | - | - | - |
| Workplaces other than the above | Included in "other workshops." | 1177 | 63 | 14 | 10 | - | |||||
| § Home-workers' premises | 238 | 330 | 147 | 421 | - | 467 | 61 | 5 | - | - | |
| Total | 2728 | 777 | 324 | 3187 | - | 4905 | 794 | 76 | 45 | - | |
* In a separate Table (p. 156) the more important classes of workshop industry are set out.
†A Register is required by s. 131 in the case of Workshops only.
‡Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants, Eating Houses of all sorts, Tripe, Fried Fish and Eel Shops, Ice Cream
Premises, and other places where food is prepared.
§ Not being factories or workshops, domestic or otherwise, and in which the occupations carried on are limited to those specified in s. 107.