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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 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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Table: Inspection of Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces, including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

Inspection of Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces, including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

Premises. (1)Number of
Inspections. (2)Written Notices. (3)Occupiers Prosecuted. (4)
Factories (Including Factory Laundries)736Nil.
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries)20316Nil.
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises)42445Nil.
Totals70067Nil.

Table: Defects found in Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.

Defects found in Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.

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)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts1:—
Want of cleanliness9393Nil.Nil.
Want of ventilation44Nil.Nil.
Overcrowding22Nil.Nil.
Want of drainage of floors1414Nil.Nil.
Other nuisances117117Nil.Nil.
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient66Nil.Nil.
unsuitable or defective2929Nil.Nil.
not separate for sexes22Nil.Nil.
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)11Nil.Nil.
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.)55Nil.Nil.
Totals273273Nil.Nil.

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* 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.