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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
Paddington 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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factories, workshops, laundries, workplaces and homework. 1.—Inspection. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 309 | 3 | ... |
| Bakehouses | 37 | ... | ... |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 2704 | 76 | ... |
| Bakehouses | 519 | 4 | 1 |
| Workplaces | 53 | ... | |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 269 | 11 | ... |
| Total | 3891 | 96 | 1 |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 118 | 104 | ... | ... | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 10 | 8 | ... | ... | ||
| Overcrowding | 16 | 16 | ... | ... | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ||
| Other nuisances and offences | 78 | 69 | 5 | ... | ||
| Sanitary accommodations | insufficent | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | |
| unsuitable or defective | 36 | 32 | ... | ... | ||
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | ... | ... | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(SS. 97 to 100) | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ||
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S. 108) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| infected (S. 110) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Other offences | 5 | 1 | 4 | ... | ||
| Total | 271 | 237† | 9 | 1 | ||
| * Including those specified in Sections 2,3,7, and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts. † It is impossible to balance this column with that showing the number of defects found, as all the latter had not been remedied at the end of the year. | ||||||
3.—Other Matters.
| Class. | Number. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories : | |||||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 65 | ||||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory Act (S. 5) | Notified bv H.M. Inspector | 6 | |||
| Reports (of action taken) sent H.M. Inspectors | 7 | ||||
| Other | 3 | ||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | |||||
| In use durine 1903 | 65 | ||||
| Certificates granted | in 1903 | 29 | |||
| in 1904 | 32 | ||||
| In use at the end of 1904 | 62 | ||||
| Homework:— | Number of | ||||
| Lists. | Outworkers. | ||||
| Lists received | 83 | 414 | |||
| Addresses of Outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 253 | |||
| received from other Authorities | 156 | ||||
| Wearing Apparel. | Other. | ||||
| Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108) | ... | ... | |||
| Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers premises | 4 | ... | |||
| Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | ... | ... | |||
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1904 (see Table 33). | |||||