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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 1926
[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 licence for 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 1926.
Workshops* visited and inspected—
(a) Dressmakers 67
(b) Milliners 17
(c) Laundries 34
(d) Tailors 35
(e) Upholsterers 6
(f) Dyers 1
(i) Bottling 8
(j) Children's Clothing 4
(k) Florists 5
(1) Boxes and Bags 10
(m) Furriers 2
(n) LampShades 1
(o) Metal etc. Polishes 4
(p) Printers 11
(q) Underclothing 3
(r) Valet service 6
(s) Waste Paper 2
(t) Toilet Requisites 2
(u) Others {e.g.), bag-making, trunks, foods, tobacco,
&c. 40
Workshops*: workrooms therein measured 53
Workshops*: newly discovered and registered 40
t Premises visited, but. not inspected, owing to the persons
or patients concerned being out, or, if employees, being
no longer employed 1120
* Workshops include Work-places.
i Births (57), Workshops (143), Tuberculosis cases (192), Private Houses (118),
Outworkers (484), Rheumatism cases (4), Tonsils and Adenoids cases (122).