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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
Hampstead 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Acting Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE VI.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 122 | 8 | - |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 1229 | 68 | 1 |
| Workplaces | 1366 | 75 | 4 |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 22 | 1 | — |
| Total | 2739 | 152 | 5 |
| Particulars, | Number of defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 82 | 82 | .. | .. | |
| Want of ventilation | 18 | 18 | .. | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 11 | 11 | .. | .. | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | |
| Other nuisances | 274 | 274 | .. | 3 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 18 | 18 | .. | .. |
| unsuitable or defective | 76 | 76 | .. | 1 | |
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | .. | 1 | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| 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 Smallpox (S. 109) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Other offences | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Total | 486 | 486 | .. | 5 | |