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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

Kensington 1897

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897

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Table: FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, 1878 95. Summary Report of Work done by the Lady Inspector during the year 1897.

FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, 1878 95. Summary Report of Work done by the Lady Inspector during the year 1897.

NORTH KENSINGTON.SOUTH KENSINGTON.Total For whole Parish.
Dress-makers.Laundries.Miscel laneous.Total.Dress- makers.Laundries.Miscel laneous.Total.
1Workshops, etc., Number of Inspections of1173905556240918334601022
2Workshops, etc., Number of Re-inspections of191242145533561206
3Workrooms, Number of Inspec-tions of160133469156371946408052368
4Workrooms, found to be over-crowded10511610......1026
5Workrooms found to be in-sufficiently ventilated13433824132866
6Workrooms found to be in a dirty condition101092121276134155
7Workshops, newly discovered and registered19763244...54981
8Workshops: Workrooms therein measured231074054...55999
9Workshops removed from Register148426152...1743
10Houses, visited for enquiry, at which no female hands were employed1262213615041266127
11Statutory Notices and Written Intimations issued131192134212...23157
12Nuisances referred to M. O. II.38...1151...617
13Yards, floors, roofs, etc., repaired...37...37............37
14Miscellaneous defects remedied126...272......229

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* Houses where the business plate, or the local directory, or newspaper advertisements, implied the
probability that female workers would be employed, but at which none were found.