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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 1937
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1937
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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 | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other nuisances | 6 | 6 | — | — |
| Sanitary accommodation:— | ||||
| Insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — |
| 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 | 25 | 25 | — | — |
3.—Home Work.
| Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | Outwork in Unwholesome Premises, Section 108. | Outwork in Infected Premises, Sees. 109, 110. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Number of Addresses of outworkers received from other Councils. | Number of Addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils. | Prosecutions. | No. of Inspections of Outworkers Premises. | ||||||||
| Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (Sec. 109). | Prosecutions. (Sec. 109, 110). | |||||||
| Lists. | Chelsea Outworkers. | |||||||||||
| 1936 | 16 | 9 | 22 | 148 | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | 7 | 20 | 122 | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshops
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.