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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 1903

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the four weeks, March 1st to March 28th, 1903...

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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 28th March, 1903.

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 28th March, 1903.

Description of WorkNorth Kensington.South Kensington.Total whole Borough.
Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.
1Total number of Houses visited486521425821878220
2Workshops and Workplaces—Newly discovered and registered......225...279
3„ Workrooms therein measured......2211...11214
4„ Number of Inspections of4602791391747138
5„ Number of Be-inspections of...26...26191...2046
6Workrooms—Number of Inspections of426227293713781374
7„ Found to be overcrowded...........................
8„ Found to be insufficiently ventilated............2...…22
9„ Found to be in a dirty condition110...112......213
10„ Cards distributed shewing number of persons permitted in each room......1112...21415
11Houses visited for Inquiry, at which no female hands were employed*......881...1210
12Statutory notices and writ tin intimations issued...18...184......422
13Nuisances reported to the Medical Officer of Health and entered in Complaint Book...........................

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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.