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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 1919
Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the year 1919
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1—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Written Notices. | Prosecutions | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 57 | - | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 206 | 16 | - |
| Workplaces | 15 | - | - |
| (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | |||
| Total | 278 | 16 | Nil |
2—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | |||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 22 | 22 | — | — | |
| Want of Ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
| Want of Drainage of Floors | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 21 | 21 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshops Act:— | Nil | ||||
| Total | 49 | 49 | Nil | Nil | |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshops
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts