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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

Hackney 1916

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1916

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(4) Your Committee further recommend that the question
of providing an Ante-natal Clinic be adjourned until after the
war, when experience will have been gained of the Infant
Welfare part of the scheme.
(5) That it be an instruction to the Medical Officer of
Health to include amongst the duties of certain of the Health
Visitors appointed, that of visiting and advising any expectant
mothers desiring such attention.
The two Centres were established and the Health Visitors
appointed in accordance with the above resolutions by the end of
the year.
At the beginning of 1917 the Centres were opened and the
Health Visitors began their duties.
THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

Table: Factories.—During the year 127 factories were inspected bythe officers of the Public Health Department,3being factory laundries and124factories in which articles of clothing, &c., were made and altered. In30factories, the sanitary accommodation was defective, unsuitable or insufficient:—

Factories.—During the year 127 factories were inspected bythe officers of the Public Health Department,3being factory laundries and124factories in which articles of clothing, &c., were made and altered. In30factories, the sanitary accommodation was defective, unsuitable or insufficient:—

Nuisance.Found.Abated by Workshop Inspector.Abated by District Inspector.Outstanding.Total.
Unsuitable or Defective w.c.'s24231—24
Insufficient „64—96
Not separate for the sexes.—————_

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Workshops.—The number of workshops registered in Hackney
at the end of 1916 was 1,100, an increase of 14 on the number
registered at the end of 1915. Of this total, 815 were workshops in