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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 1911
Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year,
details of the number of premises on the Register at the end of the year, number
of inspections, etc.
Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Classof Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections. 1911. | Number of Notices 1911. | Number of Prosecution 1911 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1910. | Added in 1911. | Removed in 1911. | On Register at end of 1911. | ||||||
| Intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||||
| Premises. | Rooms. | ||||||||
| Factories.‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | — | — |
| Factory Bakehouses | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 47 | 1 | - | - |
| Other Factories | - | - | — | - | — | 98 | 17 | 1 | — |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 9 | - | - | 9 | 28 | 9 | - | - | - |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 30 | 1 | 3 | 28 | - | 167 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Other Workshops | 1,092 | 47 | 10 | 1,129 | 1,799 | 570 | 112 | 17 | - |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises* | 188 | 39 | 10 | 217 | 230 | 170 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 387 | 5 | 7 | 385 | - | 2,067 | 52 | 3 | - |
| Workplaces other than the the above§ | — | — | — | — | — | 249 | 70 | 18 | — |
| Total | 1,710 | 94 | 30 | 1,775 | 2,057 | 3,380 | 264 | 41 | - |
* There were in addition, many inspections of Homeworkers' Premises made during the house-to-house
and periodical inspections of Lodging Houses and other Dwelling Houses.
† Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating-houses of all sorts,
Slaughter Houses, Tripe, Offal, and other Meat Shops, Fried Fish, Eel, and other Fish Ships,
Ice Cream Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding Bakehouses
which are given above.
‡ Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them
were inspected during 1911, and notices served where necessary.
§ There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not
required, and many of them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1911, there were 32 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 13 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 19 in the Holborn District.
The Bakehouse at 29, Lamb's Conduit Street, was newly occupied during the
year.
The following is a list of the bakehouses in the Borough all of which are
underground except those marked *:—