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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 1902

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the four weeks, August 10th to September 6th, 1902...

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Table: Statement by the Medical Officer of Health of the work of the Lady Inspectors of Workshops, &c., where women are employed, for the four weeks ended 6th September, 1902.

Statement by the Medical Officer of Health of the work of the Lady Inspectors of Workshops, &c., where women are employed, for the four weeks ended 6th September, 1902.

Description of Work.North Kensington.South Kensington.Total whole Borough.
Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.
1Total number of Houses visited35132862...1389
2Workshops and Workplaces – Newly discovered and registered............1...122
3„ Workrooms therein measured............1...122
4„ Number of Inspections of34125692...1372
5„ Number of Re-inspections of...10...101...3414
6Workrooms—Number of Inspections of3249272794...15284
7„ Found to be overcrowded...........................
8„ Found to be insufficiently ventilated...325............5
9„ Found to be in a dirty condition...11314............14
10„ Cards distributed shewing number of persons permitted in each room4...151...127
11Houses visited for inquiry, at which no female hands were employed*......77............7
12Statutory notices and written intimations issued...12...12......1113
13Nuisances reported to the Medical Officer of Health and entered in Complaint Book......33............3

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* Houses where the Business Plate, or the Directory, or Newspaper Advertisements, implied the
probability that Female Workers would be employed, but at which none were found.