Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1923
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The Home Office.—Seventy-six notices of occupation
were received from the Home Office during the year, and 43
notices of complaint relating to the following matters:—
Premises dirty 5
Sanitary conveniences insanitary 26
Absence of separate accommodation for the sexes 2
Water closet accommodation insufficient 5
Water closet accommodation not provided 1
Yard surfaces insufficiently drained 1
Absence of proper water-closet door fastenings 3
The notices sent to the Home Office were as follows:—
Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act not
affixed, or wrongly affixed 64
New occupation 53
The following matters are presented in the form required
by the Home Office:—
Inspection of Factories. Workshops and Workplaces.
Premises.
Inspections.
Written
Notices.
Prosecutions.
Factories (including Factory
Laundries)
2,673
145
—
Workshops (Including Workshop
Laundries)
2,960
151
—
Workplaces (other than Outworkers
premises included in
Part 3 of this Report)
853
45
—
Total
6,486
341
—