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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 1929
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1929
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TABLE No. 20. Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, and Homeworkers' Premises. I.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.(Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers prosecuted. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 34 | 2 | — |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 581 | 22 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 15 | 2 | — |
| Total | 630 | 26 | — |
2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M.Inspector. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—* | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 11 | 11 | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | - | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 12 | 12 | ||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.