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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
Battersea 1908
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, came into force at the
beginning of 1902, and in consequence a number of additional
duties devolved on the local authority. Section 132 of the Act
lays down that the Medical Officer of Health of every District
Council shall every year report specifically on the administration
of the Act in workshops and workplaces in the district under his
supervision, and transmit a copy to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department. In this portion of the Annual Report will be
found everything which has concerned the Health Department in
relation to factories, workshops and workplaces. The only exceptions
are milkshops and restaurant kitchens, etc., which are more
appropriately included in the section dealing with the protection
of the food supply.
In the following table is shown a summary of the various premises in the Borough where work is done which are now registered in the Health Department:—
| Workshops and Workplaces | 768 |
| Factories | 176 |
| Bakehouses | 89 |
| Restaurant Kitchens, &c. | 90 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 108 |
| Home Workers | 208 |
| Stables | 589 |
| Total | 2,028 |
Factories.
Factories include all places in which mechanical power is used
in aid of the manufacturing processes.
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