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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 1906
Report for the year 1906 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE IX.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1. -INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Intimations | Statutory | |||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 197 | 27 | 3 | — |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 880 | 145 | 21 | 1 |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 1,821 | 136 | 13 | — |
| Total | 2,898 | 803 | 37 | 1 |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects | Number of Prosecutions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts: | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 130 | 136 | — | 1 | |
| Want of ventilation | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 142 | 142 | — | —_ | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 105 | 105 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory or Workshop Act:— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 | 24 | 24 | — | — | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 433 | 433 | — | 1 | |
*Including those specified in Sections, 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the
Public Health Acts.