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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
Bethnal Green 1904
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1904
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A.—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
| Class or 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 | |||||||
| Under Factory Act | Under Public Health Act | |||||||||
| Premises | Booms | |||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 2 | — | — | 2 | 7 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 1 | — | — | 1 | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | |
| Other Factories | 14 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 39 | 6 | — | — | ||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 29 | 8 | 4 | 33 | 112 | 69 | 13 | — | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 88 | — | 4 | 84 | 108 | 515 | 41 | 4 | — | |
| Other Workshops | 713 | 608 | 104 | 1217 | 1602 | 2453 | 320 | — | 5 | |
| Workplaces | Places where Food is pre- pared for Sale † | 30 | 144 | 3 | 171 | 249 | 539 | 61 | — | — |
| Home-workers' premises | 715 | 962 | 134 | 1543 | 1543 | 1125 | 305 | — | — | |
| Total | 1592 | 1732 | 250 | 3070 | 3666 | 4732 | 746 | 9 | ||
* In a separate table the more important classes of workshop industry are distinguished, each in a separate line.
: 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
and other places where food is prepared.
§ Not being factories or workshops, domestic cr otherwise, and in which the occupations carried on are limited to those specified in s. 107