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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 1906
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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insufficient accommodation for the sexes 6, and other nuisances 386, while
altogether 1,075 defects were remedied. The fact that more defects were
remedied than found is explained by the circumstance that some of the
nuisances discovered had not been abated at the close of last year.
The complete analysis of the work of the Inspectors is set out in the
several tables which accompany this part of the report.
Registers.-The registers show that there are 2,166 workshops on the
register, as compared with 2,309 in the preceding year.
Of these 578 were workshops where men only were employed, and 845
where women only are employed, 147 were laundries, 260 were bakehouses,
and 336 were restaurant kitchens.
Sanitation.—The improvement of the general state of the workshops
goes on apace. Latterly it may be said that the efforts of the Public Health
Department have been met with much less resistance than formerly by the
owners, the true significance of which is that in Islington, at all events, they
have recognised the determination of the authorities, the Home Office and the
Borough Council, to enforce the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act.
The following table is here appended, as it shows at a glance what has been
done in Islington since 1896 :—
The following table is here appended, as it shows at a glance what has been done in Islington since 1896 :—
| 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 190 | 1902 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 12 | 22 | 167 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | |||||||||||
| 109 | 217 | 218 | 231 | 630 | 412 | 448 | ||||||
| 216 | 177 | 90 | 2,271 | |||||||||
| 420 | 411 | 161 | 190 | 3,048 | ||||||||
| 20 | 18 | |||||||||||
| 109 | 81 | 2 | 40 | |||||||||
| 412 | 424 | 609 | 490 |
Cleanliness. —From the reports of the Inspectors it is found that there
was a want of cleanliness found in 414 instances in workshops, all of which
have been remedied, together with some others that had stood over at the end
of the preceding year. This number compares with 550 in the preceding year.
It will, therefore, be seen that there has been a slight improvement in this
respect.