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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
Holborn 1903
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE VII. Inspection of Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.
| Class of Work | Number of Places ‡ | Number of Inspections. 1903. | Number of Notices. 1903. | Number of Prosecutions. 1903. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On Register at end of 1903. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | ||||||||
| Factories + | Factory Laundries | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – |
| Factory Bakehouses | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | |
| Other Factories | ‡ Included under Worksh ops and Work places. | ||||||||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 7 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 26 | Included under other Workshops. | ||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 42 | – | 5 | 37 | – | 67§ | 5 | – | |
| Other Workshops | 343 | 348 | – | 691 | 1,074 | 791 | 177 | – | |
| Workplaces | Outworkers' Premises* | 148 | 89 | – | 237 | – | 177* | 7 | – |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale + | Not on Register. | 313 | – | 770 | 70 | – | |||
| Workplaces other than the above | I I | I I | I I | I | |||||
| Total | 542 | 449 | 11 | 1,293 | – | 1,749 | 259 | – | |
* There were in addition, many inspections of Outworkers' Premises made during the house-to-house inspections of Lodging
Houses and other Dwelling Houses.
+ Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating-houses of all sorts. Tripe, Offal, and other
Meat Shops. Fried Fish, Eel, and other fish Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding
Bakehouses which are given above.
‡Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them were inspected during
1903, and notices served where necessary.
§ Many Inspections of Underground Bakehouses were also made by the Borough Surveyor and the Medical Officer of Health
in connection with the requirements for the Council's Certificate.
There is a very large number of "workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not required, and many of
them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
TABLE VIII. Matters Dealt with.
| PARTICULARS. | Number of Defects. | Notices Issued. | Prosecutions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Notified by Home Office. | Remedied. | Notified to Home Office. | ||||
| Matters under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | I | I | |||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 78 | 5 | 78 | 1 | 78 | – | |
| Want of Ventilation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | |
| Want of Air Space; Overcrowding | 6 | 1 | 6 | – | 6 | – | |
| Sanitary Accommodation (s.38). | Insufficient | 3 | 1 | 3 | – | 3 | – |
| Unsuitable | 86 | 5 | 86 | – | 86 | – | |
| Not Separate for Sexes | 8 | 2 | 8 | – | 8 | – | |
| Want of Drainage of Floors | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Other Nuisances | 59 | – | 59 | – | 59 | – | |
| Contraventions of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. | |||||||
| I Occupying Underground Bakehouse without Certificate ... | Not in force until 1904 | ||||||
| Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | 5 | – | 5 | – | 5 | – | |
| Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (s. 107) | 115 | – | 115 | 115 | – | – | |
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | Unwholesome (s. 108) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| infected (s. 110) | 11 | – | 11 | – | – | – | |
| Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in Premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Small Pox (s. 109) | 8 | – | 8 | – | – | – | |
| Other contraventions | 75 | – | ? | 75 | ? | ? | |
| Total | 455 | 15 | 380 | 76 | 361 | – | |
Cases reported to H.M. Inspector:—
Abstract not affixed, 74.
As to action taken in cases notified by H.M. Inspector.
Other cases, 2.
Number of Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of 1903, 29.
Certificates granted (s. 101), 23.
Number of workshop rooms measured, 587.