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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 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE IX.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1. — I nspection.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Intimations. | Statutory. | |||
| Factories (including Factory Laandries) | 123 | 10 | 2 | _ |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1,100 | 134 | 19 | 1 |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 2,129 | 184 | 43 | 1 |
| Total | 3,352 | 327 | 64 | 2 |
2.—D efects F ound.
| Particulars | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 104 | 104 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 11 | 11 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 216 | 216 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 6 | 6 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 107 | 107 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act :— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 9 | 9 | — | — | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 463 | 463 | — | — | |
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the
Public Health Acts.