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City of London 1912
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1912
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*Details of Factory Inspections, 1912.
| Initial inspections (workrooms) | 98 | ||
| Periodical inspections | 3,161 | ||
| Re-inspections (sanitary works) | 973 | ||
| — | 4,232 | ||
| Notices served— | |||
| Intimation | 220 | ||
| Statutory | 27 | ||
| — | 247 | ||
| Defects remedied. | |||
| Drains relaid or amended | 5 | ||
| Soil pipes repaired or renewed | 2 | ||
| Urinals repaired or renewed | 10 | ||
| „ cleansed | 131 | ||
| — | 141 | ||
| Sink wastes amended | 39 | ||
| Rain-water pipes repaired | 4 | ||
| Cisterns cleansed or covered | 9 | ||
| Refuse receptacles provided | 17 | ||
| Water-closets— | |||
| Separate and suitable provided | 10 | ||
| Additional provided | 2 | ||
| Lobbies constructed | 46 | ||
| Ventilated | 12 | ||
| Floors made impervious | 188 | ||
| Pans cleansed and renewed | 687 | ||
| Walls and ceilings cleansed | 393 | ||
| Flush improved - | 44 | ||
| — | 1,382 | ||
| General defects remedied | 325 | ||
| Total defects remedied | 1,924 | ||
WORKSHOPS.
In the year 1902, it became the duty of Local Authorities to see to the condition
of all Workshops and the abatement of nuisances therein. The want of cleanliness and
ventilation, the provision of suitable and sufficient water-closet accommodation, the
abatement of overcrowding, the affixing of abstracts of the Act within workshops,
the keeping of Lists of Outworkers upon the premises, &c., are some of the matters
requiring attention.
Constant changes in business arrangements are the principal reason for interference
on the part of the Local Authority. It is frequently found in such cases that entirely
new arrangements have to be made with regard to water-closet accommodation, &c.
*Details of Workshop Inspections, 1912.
| Workshops notified by H.M. Factory Department | 137 |
| No Abstract of Act affixed where women and young persons were employed—cases notified to H.M. Factory Inspector | 106 |
| Matters referred by Workshop Inspectors to District Inspectors | 111 |
| Domestic workshops on register | 32 |
| Statutory Certificates for cleansing issued by Medical Officer of Health | 216 |
| Outworkers working in the City notified to the Corporation | 709 |
*For details of Women Sanitary Inspectors' work, see page 58.