London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wandsworth 1918
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1918
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
| CLASS OF WORKS. | Number of Places | Number of Inspections, 1918. | Number of Notices. | Number of Prosecutions, 1918. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register, at end of 1917. | Added in 1918. | Removed in 1918. | On Register at end of 1918. | Intimation, 1918. | Statutory, 1918. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | ||||
| Premises | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| F actories | r Factory Laundries | 85 | ... | 10 | 75 | 304 | 152 | 6 | |||
| Factory Bakehouses | 43 | 2 | ... | 45 | 66 | 155 | 3 | ||||
| Other Factories | 387 | 48 | 16 | 419 | 1,345 | 628 | 53 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 96 | 6 | 9 | 93 | 276 | 132 | 6 | |||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 92 | ... | 8 | 84 | 84 | 336 | 7 | ||||
| Other Workshops | 1,263 | 51 | 116 | 1,198 | 1,624 | 1,247 | 73 | 2 | |||
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 543 | 18 | 30 | 531 | 585 | 487 | 54 | 1 | ||
| Workplaces other than the above | 490 | 40 | 71 | 459 | 658 | 743 | 35 | 2 | |||
| Home-workers' premises | 411 | 95 | 115 | 391 | 391 | 399 | 20 | ||||
| Total | 3,410 | 260 | 375 | 3,295 | 5,333 | 4,279 | 257 | 9 | 2 | ||