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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
Islington 1905
Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1905
3— OTHER MATTERS.
| Class. | Number. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories:— Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 105 | ||||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but" not under the Factory Act (S. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 13 | |||
| • Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors. | 13 | ||||
| Other | — | ||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101) :— | |||||
| Certificates granted during the year | — | ||||
| In use at the end of the year | 109 | ||||
| Homework :— | Number of | ||||
| Lists. | Outworkers. | ||||
| Lists received | 221 | 1793 | |||
| Addresses of outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 947 | |||
| received from other Authorities | 1903 | ||||
| Wearing Apparel. | Other. | ||||
| Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108) | |||||
| Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers' premises .. | 4 | 7 | |||
| Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | |||||
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1904. | |||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | Workshops where men are employed | 1037 | |||
| Workshops where women are employed | 835 | ||||
| Laundries | 161 | ||||
| Bakehouses | 260 | ||||
| Restaurant Kitchens, etc. | 336 | ||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 2629 | ||||
* The Lists should be received twice in the year. The year's figures required in the Table are
those obtained by adding together the two half-yearly totals.
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