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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

Stoke Newington 1916

Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the 1916

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Table: 4—REGISTERED WORKROOMS.

4—REGISTERED WORKROOMS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1)Number. (2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bake- houses, may be enumerated here.Miscellaneous221
Bakehouses24
Total number of workshops on Register.245

Table: 5—OTHER MATTERS.

5—OTHER MATTERS.

Class. (1)Number. (2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)3
Action taken in matter referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5)Notified to H.M. InspectorNil
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector .Nil
OtherNil
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101)—
Certificates granted during the yearNil
In use at the end of the year18

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During the year the homes of all outworkers have been inspected.
Sometimes in these home work rooms the most unsatisfactory
conditions under which industrial employment is maintained
are to be found, and our existing powers are insufficient,
in some cases, to bring about the necessary improvements. The
requirements of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with reference
to underground rooms which are separately occupied, should
be made to apply to underground workrooms.