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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of defects in respect of which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred toH.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness (S. 1) | 36 | 36 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Overcrowding (S. 2) | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Unreasonable temperature (S. 3) | 1 | 1 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Inadequate ventilation (S. 4) | 9 | 9 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Ineffective drainage of floors (S. 6) | 4 | 4 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Sanitary Conveniences (S. 7) | insufficient | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. |
| unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| not separate for sexes | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Other offences (Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to the Factories Act, 1937.) | 53 | 53 | Nil. | Nil. | |
| Total | 106 | 106 | Nil. | Nil. | |
Outwork in unwholesome premises (Section 111).
No case arose during the year of outwork being conducted in unwholesome premises.
Bakehouses.
The special survey of underground bakehouses is referred to in
Section 6 of this Report.
Outworkers—(Home Work).
Certain specified classes of work done at the homes are controlled
by the Act. There are 67 such outworkers (or home-workers) in
Hampstead known to the Public Health Department. Of these 42 are
single workers. Persons sending out homework are required to keep
lists of their home-workers and to send copies of these lists to the
Borough Council during February and August in each year, and to
show thereon all outworkers employed during the previous six months.
In February, 33 lists were received, and 31 lists in August.
These lists included the names of 81 and 103 home-workers respectively. In many instances, of course, the same outworker's name was
reported by different firms twice in the year. Of the actual outworkers
thus notified, amounting to 104, 18 belonged to Hampstead and 86
elsewhere. Particulars of the latter were sent to the Local Authorities concerned, while information concerning 59 outworkers resident
in Hampstead was received from other Authorities.
In no instance during 1939 was homework found to be carried on in unwholesome premises.