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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
Hampstead 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect of which Prose-cutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 73 | 73 | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | _ | - | |
| Other nuisances | 103 | 103 | - | - | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | _ | _ | _ | - |
| unsuitable or defective | 53 | 53 | _ | _ | |
| not separate for sexes | 18 | 18 | — | - | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901:— | |||||
| 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.) | |||||
| Totals | 252 | 252 | - | - | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Home Work (Outworkers).
Certain classes of work done at the homes of workers are controlled
by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. The object of this
supervision is to prevent work being done in insanitary dwellings, or
in premises where there is dangerous infectious disease. Every
occupier of a place from which home work is given out, and contractors
employed by them, are required to keep lists of their home
workers, and to send to the local authority on or before 1st February
and 1st August in each year copies of such lists. Upon receipt of
these, the names and addresses of those workers who reside in other
districts are forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health concerned.