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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
Holborn 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Intimations. | Statutory. | |||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 103 | — | ||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 950 | 1 j 236 | 48 | 3 |
| Workplaces | 1,752 | |||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 172 | 29 | 4 | — |
| Total | 2,977 | 265 | 52 | 3 |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | |||
| ♦Nuisances dnder the Public Health Acts :— Want of cleanliness | 57 | 57 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 5 | 5 | _ | _ | |
| Overcrowding | 9 | 9 | —_ | _ | |
| Want of drainage of floors | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Other nuisances | 14 | 14 | — | _ | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective...... | 23 | 23 | _ | _ | |
| ( not separate for sexes | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Offences dnder the Factory and Workshop Act :— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 81 | 81 | — | — | |
| 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 starlet fever or small-pox (S. 109) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences | — | ||||
| Total | 20.'3 | 203 | — | — | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.