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Holborn 1902
Report for the year 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health
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want of ventilation, or other insanitary conditions, (2) any premises where there is any dangerous
infectious disease. In accordance with section 107 of the Act lists of outworkers have to be
kept in certain specified trades, and copies of this list have to be sent to the District Council on
or before the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year. The details of all
outworkers who do not reside iu the Borough have to be sent to the Councils of the district in
which they work.
Under section 101 new duties of great importance are placed on the Council in regard to
underground bakehouses. The Act provides generally that no underground bakehouse whether
factory or workshop shall be used as such unless it was so used on the 17th August, 1901,
(passing of the Act). Moreover, after the 1st January, 1904, it will not be lawful to use any
underground bakehouse wherever established unless the Council are satisfied that it is suitable
for the purpose with regard to construction, light, ventilation, and in all other respects and have
given a certificate of suitability.
Under section 98 of the Act increased power is given for dealing with any bakehouse
(whether underground or not) which is unfit on sanitary grounds for use or occupation.
Summary of Sanitary work done during 1902 under the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901:
| Workshops placed on the Register | 350 | Workshops Improperly ventilated | 20 | |
| „ (No. of rooms) ,, | 540 | „ Overcrowded | 27 | |
| Outworkers residing in the District, placed on the Register | 148 | „ Other nuisances | 8 | |
| „ Notices sent to H. M. I. of Factories, women, young persons or children employed, in which no abstract of the Act is posted | 94 | |||
| Outworkers residing in other Districts placed on the Register | 122 | |||
| Workshops inspected | 750 | |||
| ,, Notices served | 162 | |||
| „ Dirty | 65 | |||
| ,, Waterclosets, defective or dirty | 63 | |||
| Factories and Workshops. Sanitary defects reported by H. M. I. of Factories | 52 | |||
| „ Waterclosets, insufficient | 19 | |||
| „ Drains, soil pipes, &c., defective | 17 | |||
bakehouses.
There are 41 bakehouses in the Borough, of which 23 are in Bloomsbury and St. Giles,
and 18 are in the Holborn Sub-Division.
The following is a list of bakehouses in the Borough :—
Bloomsbury and St. Giles.
160 Drury Lane (closed during the year).
166 do.
200 Shaftesbury Avenue.
63 High Street.
19 Little Earl Street.
5 Little St. Andrew Street.
6 Torrington Place.
233 Tottenham Court Road.
33 Great Wild Street (closed during the year).
60 Neal Street.
21 Sardinia Street.
26 Little Queen Street (now closed).
2 Bloomsbury Court.
10 Bury Street.
155 High Holborn.
162 High Holborn.
217,218 „ (Holborn Restaurant).
21 Marchmont Street.
77 Marchmont Street.
8 Museum Street.
24, 26, 28 New Oxford Street.
88 Southampton Row.
34 do. (closed during the year).