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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
Chelsea 1926
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1926
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2—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars.(1) | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutionswere instituted.(5) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found.(2) | Remedied.(3) | Referred toH.M. Inspector.(4) | ||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—* | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 20 | 20 | — | — |
| Want of ventilation | 5 | 5 | — | — |
| Overcrowding | 7 | 7 | — | — |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other nuisances | 7 | 7 | — | — |
| Sanitary accommodation— | ||||
| Insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— | ||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | _ | _ | _ | __ |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921.) | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 46 | 46 | — | — |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
3.—Home Work.
| Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | Outwork in Unwholesome Premises, Section 108. | Outwork in Infected Premises. Secs. 109, 110 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Number of Addresses of outworkers received from other Councils. | Number of Addresses of outworkersforwarded to other Councils. | Prosecutions. | No. of Inspections ofOutworkers Premises. | ||||||||
| Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (Sec. 109). | Prosecutions (Sec. 109, 110) | |||||||
| Lists. | ChelseaOutworkers. | |||||||||||
| 1925 | 27 | 23 | 75 | 432 | — | 115 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 1926 | 23 | 23 | 45 | 404 | — | 105 | 5 | 6 | — | — | — | — |