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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 1922

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922

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Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.Numbtr of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—*
Want of cleanliness190218......
Want of ventilation2028......
Overcrowding1718......
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances8194...
Sanitary accommodation— Insufficient65......
Unsuitable or defective118105......
Not separate for sexes1112......
Offences under the Factory and Workshops Acts :—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)............
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100)2929......
Other offences............
(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.)............
Total472509......

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•Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factor;
Workshops Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.