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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

Kensington 1901

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901

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Table: Appended to the Inspectors' report is the subjoined table, setting out certain particulars of the work of the year, so far as this admits of tabulation— FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, 1878-1895. Summary of the Work of the Lady Inspectors in 1901.

Appended to the Inspectors' report is the subjoined table, setting out certain particulars of the work of the year, so far as this admits of tabulation— FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, 1878-1895. Summary of the Work of the Lady Inspectors in 1901.

North Kensington.South Kensington.
Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.
1. Workshop inspections2518241671,242886761891,2112,453
2. ,, re-inspections62402194833293695460943
3. Workroom inspections2522,7271073,0861,477176*3181,9715,057
4. Workrooms found oxercrowded42—651—55662
5. „ insufficiently ventilated516—2191-495116
6. ,, in a dirty condition2621413253783952169422
7. Workshops, &c.; workrooms therein measured271159151120422146297
8. Workshops, &c., reported to H. M. Inspector, on discovery1952677323843120
9. Workshops, 4c., reported by H. M. Inspector42—620—32329
10. Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered183876367730104167
11. Workshops, &c., removed from register311385230594496
12. Houses visited where no female hands were employed*2821297811925107251329
13. Domestic workshops and workplaces inspected1930521019097106207
14. Written intimations and statutory notices issued15293153231302753210533
15. Sanitary defects remedied :—
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided—921111——1122
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed8202521543282293308
(c) Yards, floors, roofs, &c., repaired1135—136175325161
(d) Sanitary conveniences; defects remedied6571643811554118
(e) Dustbins provided or repaired—2722981132251
(f) Miscellaneous defects remedied484290144725115
16. Nuisances referred to Medical Officer of Health845457181143390
17. Cases of overcrowding of workrooms abated42—651—55662
18. Cards distributed showing number of persons who may be employed in each workroom40—1151227236265316

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* Houses where the business plate, or the local directory, or advertisements in newspapers implied, a probability that female
workers would be employed, but at which none were found.