London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Battersea 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Factories, Workshops, Workplaces
and Homework.
1.—Inspections of Factories, Workshops and workplaces (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances).
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 689 | 48 | _ |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1,071 | 107 | - |
| Workplaces (other than Out-workers' premises included in the Table on page 74) | 1,407 | 86 | — |
| Total | 3,167 | 241 | — |
2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Found on Inspection. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | |
| Nuisances under Public Health Act:— | |||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 71 | 71 | NIL. | NIL. | |
| Want of Ventilation | — | — | |||
| Overcrowding | — | — | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | |||
| Other nuisances | 105 | 105 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | 7 | 7 | ||
| Unsuitable or defective | 92 | 92 | |||
| Not separate for the sexes | 1 | 1 | |||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act :— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (Sec. 101) | — | — | |||
| Lack of Special Sanitary Requirements to Bakehouses (Sees. 97 to 100) | 51 | 51 | |||
| Other Offences (excluding Offences relating to Outworkers which are included in the Table on page 74) | — | — | |||
| Total | 328 | 328 | — | — | |