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 vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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Inspection of Factories, Workshops & Workplaces.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises, | Inspections | Written Notices. | Prosecutions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Factories (including factory laundries) | 216 | 7 | — | |||
Workshops (including workshop laundries) | 1141 | 24 | — | |||
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Table 3) | 108 | 6 | — | |||
Total | 1465 | 37 | — | |||
Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces. | ||||||
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | No. of Prosecutions. | ||||
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—* | ||||||
Want of cleanliness | 24 | 24 | — | — | ||
Want of ventilation | 5 | 5 | — | — | ||
Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | — | — | ||
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | ||
Other nuisances | 10 | 10 | — | — | ||
Sanitary accommodation : Insufficient | — | — | — | — | ||
Unsuitable or defective | 27 | 27 | — | — | ||
Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — | ||
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — | ||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(ss. 97-100) | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | ||
Total | 112 | 112 | — | — |
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.