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

Holborn 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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Table: TABLE VI.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework1.—INSPECTION. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

TABLE VI.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework1.—INSPECTION. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

PREMISES.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimations.Statutory.
Factories157225...
Workshops8525114...
Workplaces3,2927711...
Total3,80115080...

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to h.M. Inspector.
*Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:
Want of cleanliness5154......
Want of ventilati on............
Overcrowdiug11......
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances114114......
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient11......
unsuitable or defective5252......
not separate for sexes...88......
Offences under the Factory and Workshops Act:............
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101)............
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses SS. 97 to 100)............
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork wliich are included in Part, 3 of this Report)............
Total230230......

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.