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Hampstead 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred toH.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 28 | 28 | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 5 | 5 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | |
| Want of drainage of floors | - | - | - | - | |
| Other nuisances | 48 | 48 | - | - | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| unsuitable or defective | 11 | 11 | - | - | |
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| 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, Trasfer of Powers) Order, 1921. | |||||
| Totals | 104 | 104 | 1 | - | |
*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.
Home Work (Outworkers).
Certain classes of work done at the homes of workers are controlled
by the Factory and. Workshop Act, 1901. The object
of this supervision is to prevent 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 those workers who
reside in other districts are forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health
concerned, and those home workers resident in the Borough are kept
under supervision.