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Holborn 1907
Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
During the year there were 79 inspections of factories, 988 inspections of
workshops anil 2,270 of workplaces other than outworkers'premises. 280 Intimation
Notices for sanitary defects were served and 29 Statutory Notices.
There were also 195 inspections of home workers' premises for which
13 Intimation Notices for sanitary defects were served.
The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year,
details of the number of premises on the Eegister at the end of the year, number
of inspections, etc.
Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections. 1907. | Number of Notices 1907. | Number of Prosecutions 1907. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1906. | Added in 1907. | Removed in 1907. | On Register at end of 1907. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories.‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | 16 | 1 | — | — |
| Other Factories | — | — | — | — | — | 60 | 28 | 1 | — |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 13 | — | — | 13 | 37 | 31 | 4 | 1 | — |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 32 | — | 1 | 31 | — | 288 | 14 | 4 | — |
| Other Workshops | 881 | 82 | 11 | 952 | 1,550 | 669 | 108 | 7 | — |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises * | 160 | 74 | 66 | 168 | 190 | 195* | 13 | 1 | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale f | 377 | — | 28 | 359 | — | 1,994 | 78 | 9 | 2 |
| Workplaces other than the the above § | — | — | — | — | — | 276 | 47 | 7 | — |
| Total | 1,467 | 157 | 106 | 1,528 | 1,777 | 3,532 | 293 | 30 | 2 |
* There were in addition, many inspections of Homeworkers' Premises made during the house-to-house
and periodical 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,
lee 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 1907, 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.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1907, there were 34 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 17 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 17 in the Holborn District.