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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 1910

Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE IX. FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK. 1.—Inspection. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

TABLE IX. FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK. 1.—Inspection. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimations.Statutory.
Factories (including Factory Laundries)107246_
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)6808213—
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report)2,44417820—
Total3,23128439—
2.—Defects Found.
ParticularsNumber of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.RemediedReferred to H.M. Inspector.
*Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—
Want of cleanliness6262—__
Want of ventilation1616—_
Overcrowding22——
Want of drainage of floors————
Other nuisances146146—_
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient11——
unsuitable or defective7171——
not separate for sexes1212——
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:-Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (8. 101)————
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (88. 97 to 100)88——
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report)————
Total318318——

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* Including those specified n Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the
Public Health Acts.