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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
Lambeth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Offensive Trades.
There are three offensive trades registered, e.g., fat melting
(15, Upper Marsh), soap boiling (15, Upper Marsh) and tripe boiling
(103, Lambeth Walk). The premises at 15, Upper Marsh (soap boiling
and fat melting) were enlarged during 1925 with the approval of the
London County Council under section 19 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891. Fat melting at Albert Mews (rear of 188, Clapham
Road) lapsed through disuse in 1924.
Summary of Work carried out by the Female Sanitary Inspectors during 1925.
| Workshops* visited and inspected— | |
| (a) Dressmakers | 24 |
| (b) Milliners | 4 |
| (c) Laundries | 14 |
| (d) Tailors | 16 |
| (e) Upholsterers | 1 |
| (f) Art Needlework | 2 |
| (g) Blouses | 4 |
| (h) Beer Bottling | |
| (i) Children's-Clothing | |
| (j) Florists | 3 |
| (k) Dressing Gowns | 1 |
| (l) . Furriers | 1 |
| (m) Gas Shades | 1 |
| (n) Metal Polishes | 1 |
| (o) Shirt-making | 1 |
| (p) Underclothing | 3 |
| (q) Valet service | 4 |
| (r) Waste Paper | 1 |
| (s) Toilet Requisites | 1 |
| (t) Others (e.g.), bag-making, trunks, foods, tobacco, &c. | 10 |
| Workshops* : workrooms therein measured | 42 |
| Workshops*: newly discovered and registered | 24 |
| †Premises visited, but not inspected, owing to the persons or patients concerned being out, or, if employees, being no longer employed | 2 549 |
* Workshops include Work-places.
† Births (4), Workshops (65), Tuberculosis cases (181), Private Houses (103),
Outworkers (1935), Rheumatism cases (119), Tonsils and Adenoids cases (142).