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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
Kensington 1905
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905
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The subjoined table, dealing with persons of both sexes employed at workshops, etc., is
prescribed by the Local Government Board to be inserted in the annual report of the Medical
Officer of Health.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—Inspection.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) ... | 81 | 12 | — |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 2843 | 281 | 3 |
| Workplaces | 446 | 41 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 249 | 2 | — |
| Total | 3619 | 336 | 3 |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Nuisances under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891*:— | ||||||
| Want of cleanliness | 223 | 221 | — | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | 47 | 47 | — | — | ||
| Overcrowding | 36 | 36 | — | 1 | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 6 | 6 | — | — | ||
| Other Nuisances | 109 | 109 | — | — | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | ( insufficient | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| unsuitable or defective ... | 71 | 71 | — | — | ||
| ( not separate for sexes | 5 | 4 | — | 2 | ||
| 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) | 3 | 3 | — | — | ||
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 51 | — | — | — | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S. 108) | — | — | — | — | |
| (infected (S. 110) | 5 | 5 | — | — | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox (S. 109) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Other Offences | — | — | — | — | ||
| Total | 560 | 506 | — | 3 | ||
• Including ttose specified inSections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Act.