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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
Camberwell 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1913.
| No. of Visits. | Want of Cleanliness. | Overcrowding and Defective Ventilation. | Defective Roof, &c., and Dampness. | Sanitary Accommodation. | Defective Yards and Paving. | Defective Dust-bins. | Other Defects. | Notices. | Summonses. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insufficient. | Not Separate. | Dirty or Defective. | Intimation. | Statutory. | |||||||||
| Complaints | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Workshops (new) | 79 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 5 | – | – | 1 | 14 | 3 | – |
| Do. (old) | 456 | ||||||||||||
| Laundries (new) | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 9 | 1 | – |
| Do. (old) | 62 | ||||||||||||
| Factories (new) | 8 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | – | 6 | 1 | – |
| Do. (old) | 119 | ||||||||||||
| Outworkers (new) | 511 | 12 | – | 7 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 18 | 3 | – |
| Do (old) | 805 | ||||||||||||
| Eating Houses | 103 | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | – |
| Schools | 40 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | – |
| Work in Hand | 154 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | 1,264 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 3 609 | 25 | 2 | 12 | 1 | – | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 57 | 10 | – |