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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
Bethnal Green 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in
connection with
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES & HOMEWORK.
1.- Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Premises.
Number of
Inspections.
Written Notices.
Prosecutions.
Factories
(Including Factory Laundries)
167
22
—
Workshops
(Including Workshop Laundries)
3,573
899
—
Workplaces .
(Otlher than Outworkers' premises
included in Part 3 of this Report )
1.004
61
—
Total
4,744
982
—
2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Particulars.
Number of Defects.
Number
of Prose—
cutions.
Found.
Remedied.
Referred
to h.M.
Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—*
Want of cleanliness
650
650
—
—
Want of ventilation
31
31
—
—
Overcrowding
5
5
—
—
Want of drainage of floors
8
8
—
—
Other nuisances
638
633
—
—
(insufficient
Samitary unsuitable or defective
accommodation
not separate tor sexes
14
14
—
—
315
315
—
—
3
8
—
—
Offences under the Factory and Workshop
Act:—
Illegal occupation of underground bake—
house (s. 101) ...
—
—
—
—
Breach of special sanitary requirements
for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100)
—
—
—
—
Other offences
(Excluding offences relating to outwork
which are included in Part 3 of this
—
—
—
—
Total
1669
1669
—
—
• Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts