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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 1904
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition of the Royal Borough of Kensington, etc., etc., for the year 1904
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK. 1.—Inspection. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 162 | 19 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 3,935 | 476 | — |
| Workplaces | 22 | 2 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 73 | — | — |
| Total | 4,192 | 497 | — |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 368 | 368 | — | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | 52 | 52 | — | — | ||
| Overcrowding | 24 | 24 | — | — | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 23 | 23 | — | — | ||
| Other Nuisances | 295 | 295 | — | — | ||
| Sanitary accommodations | insufficient | 18 | 18 | _ | _ | |
| unsuitable or defective | 133 | 133 | _ | _ | ||
| not separate for sexes | 13 | 13 | — | — | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | - | - | _ | _ | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 11 | 11 | - | _ | ||
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 59 | — | - | — | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S.108) | — | — | - | — | |
| infected (S. 110) | 9 | 9 | - | — | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox (S. 109) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Other Offences | — | — | - | — | ||
| Total | 1,005 | 946 | - | - | ||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Act.