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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
Finsbury 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Works. | Number of Places.† | Number of | Number of Prosecutions, 1908. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1907. | Added in 1908. | Removed in 1908. | On Register at end of 1908. | Number of Inspections, 1908. | Written Intimations, 1908. | Notices, 1908. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | |||
| Premises. | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 5 | l | l | 5 | — | 28 | l | 2 | l | |
| Factory Bakehouses | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | |
| Other Factories | 712 | 127 | 16 | 823 | — | 1110 | 113 | 16 | — | l | |
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 21 | 7 | 1 | 27 | — | 36 | 12 | — | ||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 61 | 61 | — | 89 | 15 | — | |||||
| Other Workshops | 1902 | 289 | 159 | 2032 | — | 1861 | 320 | 42 | — | 2 | |
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale + | 358 | 10 | 24 | 344 | — | 350 | 160 | — | — | — |
| Workplaces other than the above | Included in "other workshops." | 485 | 55 | 4 | — | 2 | |||||
| § Home-workers | premises | 360 | 72 | 46 | 386 | — | 329 | 7 | — | — | — |
| Total | 3419 | 506 | 247 | 3678 | — | 4288 | 683 | 64 | — | 6 | |
* The more important classes of workshop industry are set out in a separate Table. (See page 104).
+ A Register is required by s. 131 in the case of Workshops only.
Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants, Eating Houses of all sorts, Tripe, Fried Fish and Eel Shops, Ice Cream
Premises, and oiher places where food is prepared.
§ Not being factories or workshops, domestic or otherwise, and in which th occupations carried on are limited to those specified in s. 107.