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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
City of London 1904
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1904
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THIS TABLE WAS ISSUED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD BY REQUEST OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
19 0 4.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) † | 160 | 33 | — | |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) † | 4,505 | 815 | — | |
| Workplaces † | 1,558 | 186 | — | |
| Homeworkers' Premises † | 4 | — | — | |
| Total † | 6,227 | 1,034 | — | |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecution). | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 385 | 340 | — | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | 250 | 203 | 1 | — | ||
| Overcrowding | 72 | 72 | — | — | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | — | — | — | ||
| Other nuisances | 1,564 | 1,401 | 1 | — | ||
| †Sanitary accommodations | insufficient | 12 | 10 | — | — | |
| unsuitable or defective | 1,053 | 918 | - | — | ||
| not separate for sexes | 83 | 66 | — | — | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | 8 | 8 | — | — | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(SS. 97 to 100) | 4 | 4 | — | — | ||
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 8 | 8 | — | — | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S. 108) | — | — | — | — | |
| infected (S. 110) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox (S. 109) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | ||
| Total | 3,440 | 3,030 | 2 | — | ||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
† These figures include initial inspections and re-inspections, as indicated in the body of the Report.