Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Premises, | Inspections | Written Notices. | Prosecutions |
---|---|---|---|
Factories (including factory laundries) | 94 | 6 | — |
Workshops (including workshop laundries) | 1630 | — | |
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Table 3) | 174 | — | — |
Total | 1898 | 33 | — |
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | No. of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—* Want of cleanliness | — | — | ||
Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Overcrowding | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Want of drainage of floors | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Other nuisances | — | — | ||
Sanitary accommodation : Insufficient | — | — | ||
Unsuitable or defective | 43 | 43 | — | — |
Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — |
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — |
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(ss. 97-100) | — | — | ||
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — |
Total | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.