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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
Battersea 1926
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926
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Factories, Workshops, Workplaces
and Homework
1.—Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances).
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 763 | 57 | 1* |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1,185 | 94 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in the Table on page 100) | 2,541 | 115 | — |
| Total | 4,489 | 1* | |
2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Found on Inspection. | Remedied. | Referred to H. M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Nuisances under Public Health Act — | Nil. | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 116 | 116 | _ | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 11 | 11 | _ | ||
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | _ | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | ||
| Other nuisances | 112 | 112 | _ | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | 4 | 4 | — | |
| Unsuitable or defective | 84 | 84 | _ | ||
| Not separate for the sexes | 6 | 6 | — | ||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (Sec. 101) | 1 | 1 | 1* | ||
| Other Offences (excluding Offences relating to Outworkers which are included in the Table on page 104) | — | _ | — | ||
| Total | 336 | 336 | — | 1* | |
* Prosecution instituted in 1925.