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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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Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework. 1.—INSPECTION.
| Premises (1) | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. (2) | Written Notices (3) | Prosecutions (4) | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 1138 | 132 | 2 |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 1897 | 374 | 2 |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | 485 | 59 | 2 |
| Total | 3520 | 565 | 6 |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Remedied | Referred to H.M. Inspector | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:1— | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 160 | 148 | 12 | ... | |
| Want of ventilation | 27 | 23 | 4 | ... | |
| Overcrowding | 6 | 5 | 1 | ... | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | |
| Other nuisances | 552 | 552 | ... | 3 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 34 | 34 | ... | 2 |
| unsuitable or defective | 243 | 243 | ... | 1 | |
| not separate for sexes | 21 | 21 | ... | ... | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts :— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | 2 | 2 | ... | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | 76 | ... | 76 | ... | |
| Total | 1124 | 1031 | 93 | 6 | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3,7 and 8 of the Factory ana Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.