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Holborn 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Since the increased powers respecting Common Lodging-houses conferred on the
London County Council by the London County Council (General Powers) Act of 1902,
a number of the Common Lodging-houses in the Borough have been closed because
they failed to carry out the alterations required in order to secure a renewal of their
licenses. The details of those closed in 1903 and 1904 were given in the Annual
Reports for those years.
During the year 1905, five more Common Lodging-houses were closed, viz. :
Nos. 8 and 10, Parker Street which had been licensed for 72 women lodgers; and 18,
19, and 20, Fulwood's Rents, which had been licensed for 118 women lodgers and 58
men lodgers.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES
During the year there were 1,059 inspections of factories and workshops, and
1,752 inspections of workplaces, 101 Intimation Notices for sanitary defects were
served and 28 Statutory Notices.
There were also 172 inspections of home workers premises for which 28
Intimation Notices for sanitary defects were served, and 4 Statutory Notices.
The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year,
details of the number of premises on the Register at the end of the year, number of
inspections, etc.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections. 1905. | Number of Notices 1905. | Number of prosecution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1904. | Added in 1905. | Removed in 1905. | On Register at end ol 1905. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms | intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories. ‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | — | 4 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 1 | — | _ | 1 | — | 10 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Other Factories | — | — | — | — | — | Included | under | Work | shops. |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 19 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 38 | 56 | 4 | 0 | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 33 | — | _ | 33 | — | 234 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Other Workshops | 746 | 92 | 13 | 825 | 1,359 | 660 | 87 | 28 | — |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises 1 | 99 | 70 | 20 | 149 | 206 | 172* | 29 | 4 | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 318 | 85 | 5 | 398 | — | 1,610 | 135 | 19 | 3 |
| Workplaces other than the the above § | 142 | Included in other Work shops. | |||||||
| Total | 1,219 | 249 | 39 | 1,429 | — | 2,888 | 265 | 52 | 3 |
* 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.
Slaughter Houses, Tripe, Offal, and other Meat Shops, Fried Fish, Eel, and other fish Shops,
Ice Cream 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 1905, and notices served where necessary.
§ 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.
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