London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1923

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1923

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Table: TABLE VI.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework1.—INSPECTION.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

TABLE VI.

Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework

1.—INSPECTION.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

PREMISES.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimations.Statutory.
Factories184295...
Workshops223435...
Workplaces3,4021165...
Total3,80918815...

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
*Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:
Want of cleanliness4040......
Want of ventilation11......
Overcrowdiug............
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances133133......
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient11......
unsuitable or defective6262......
not separate for sexes55......
Offences under the Factory and Workshops Act :...
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (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 Report)............
Total242242......

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.