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Hampstead 1924
Report for the year 1924 of the Medical Officer of Health
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2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 39 | 39 | – | – | |
| Want of ventilation | 3 | 3 | 3 | _ | |
| Overcrowding | 6 | 6 | – | _ | |
| Want of drainage of floors | – | – | – | _ | |
| Other nuisances | 67 | 67 | — | - | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | - |
| unsuitable or defective | 4 | 4 | – | ||
| not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | _ | – | |
| †Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | 1 | _ | — | – | |
| 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 | 122 | 121 | 3 | - | |
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
† Illegal occupation discovered at close of year; notice of offence has been served,
and occupier arranging to vacate premises.
3.—Home Work (Outworkers).
Certain specified classes of work done at the homes of the
workers are controlled by special clauses in the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901. The object of this supervision is to prevent
home work being done in insanitary dwellings, or in premises where
there is dangerous infectious disease. Every occupier of a factory,
workshop, or place from which home work is given out, and contractors
employed by them, are required to keep lists showing the names and
addresses of their home workers. The occupiers are required to send to
the local authority on or before 1st February and 1st August in each
year copies of such lists. Upon receipt of these lists, the names and
addresses of home workers residing in the districts of other sanitary
authorities are forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health concerned.
and those home workers resident in the Borough are kept under supervision
by Special Inspectors concerned.