Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1931
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2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutionswere instituted. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
Nuisances under the Public Health | ||||
Acts :—* | ||||
Want of cleanliness | 17 | 17 | — | _ |
Want of ventilation | 1 | 1 | — | __ |
Overcrowding | — | — | — | — |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — |
Other nuisances | 5 | 5 | — | — |
Sanitary accommodation :— | ||||
Insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Unsuitable or defective | — | — | — | _ |
Not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Offences under the Factory and | ||||
Workshop Acts :— | ||||
Illegal occupation of under- | ||||
ground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — |
Other offences | — | — | — | — |
(Excluding offences relating | ||||
to outwork and offences | ||||
under the Sections men- | ||||
tioned in the Schedule to | ||||
the Ministry of Health (Fac- | ||||
tories and Workshops Trans- | ||||
fer of Powers) Order, 1921). | ||||
Total | 25 | 25 | — |
. * Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
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3.—Home Work.
Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | Outwork in UnwholesomePremises, Section 108. | Outwork in Infected Premises, Sees. 109, 110 | ||||||||||
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Lists received from Employers. | Number of Ad-dresses of out-workers received from other Councils | Number of Ad-dresses of out-workersfor-warded to other Councils | Prose-cutions. | No. of Inspec-tions ofOut-workers Pre-mises. | ||||||||
Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (Sec. 109). | Prosecutions (Sec. 109, 110) | |||||||
Lists. | Chelsea Out-workers. | |||||||||||
1930 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 167 | 127 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
1931 | 15 | 12 | 26 | 155 | — | 65 | — | — | — | — | — |