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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 1941
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1941
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2.—Defects found in Factories and Other Premises.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | IS umber of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (6) |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—1 Want of cleanliness | 8 | 8 | — | — |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other nuisances | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Sanitary accommodation :— Insufficient | — | — | _ | _ |
| Unsuitable or defective. | — | — | — | — |
| Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts :— Illegal occupation of under-ground bakehouse (s. 54) | — | — | — | — |
| 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 | 10 | 10 | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factories Act, 1937,
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
3. Home Work.
| Outworkers' Lists, Section 110. | Outwork in Unwholesome Premises, Section 111. | Outwork in Infected Premises, Secs. 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 Inspec tions of Out workers Pre mises. | ||||||||
| Lists. | Chelsea Outworkers | Instances. | Notioces served. | Prosec utions | Instances. | Orders made (Sec. 109). | Prosecutions. (Sec. 109, 110). | |||||
| 1939 | 14 | 21 | 24 | 165 | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | 20 | 18 | 160 | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 140 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |