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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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2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.—continued.
| 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) |
| Sanitary accommodation :— | ||||
| Insufficient | 2 | 2 | — | |
| Unsuitable or defective | 7 | 7 | — | |
| Not separate for sexes | 3 | 3 | — | |
| 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 | 38 | 38 | — | — |
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 out-workers received from other Councils | Number of Addresses of out-workers forwarded to other Councils | Prosecutions. | No. of Inspections of Outworkers Premises. | ||||||||
| Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (Sec. 109). | Prosecutiotion (Sec. 109,110 | |||||||
| Lists. | Chelsea Out-workers. | |||||||||||
| 1928 | 21 | 37 | 37 | 200 | - | 82 | 2 | 2 | - | - | — | |
| 1929 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 193 | — | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, section 88, every sanitary
authority must provide and fit up a proper place for the reception of
dead bodies before interment.