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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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94 factories, workshops, laundries, workplaces and homework.
TABLE VII.
1.—Inspection.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances. H.O.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||||||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries and Bakehouses) | 345 | 2 | ... | ||||||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries and Bakehouses) | 1323 | 20 | ... | ||||||
| Workplaces | 13 | ... | ... | ||||||
| Home workers' Premises | 308 | 2 | ... | ||||||
| Total | 1989 | 24 | ... | ||||||
| 2.—Defects Found. | |||||||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 82 | 67 | ... | ... | |||||
| Want of Ventilation | 3 | 2 | ... | ... | |||||
| Overcrowding | 9 | 9 | ... | ... | |||||
| Want of drainage of floors... | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | |||||
| Other nuisances | 23 | 22 | ... | ... | |||||
| Sanitary accommodations • | insufficent | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| unsuitable or defective ... | 10 | 8 | ... | ... | |||||
| . not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | ... | ... | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) ) | |||||||||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) ) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||
| 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 bv scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 101) | |||||||||
| Other offences | 19 | 10 | 9 | ... | |||||
| Total | 152 | 123 | 9 | ... | |||||
| * Including those specified in Sections 2,3, 7, and 8, of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts. 3.—Other Matters. | |||||||||
| Class. | Number. | ||||||||
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories : | |||||||||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factorv and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 15 | ||||||||
| Action taken in matters referred bv H.M. Inspectors , Notified bv H.M. Inspector | 22 | ||||||||
| as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but Reports (of action taken) sent not under the Factor Act (S. 5) to H.M. Inspectors | 22 | ||||||||
| Other | 1 | ||||||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | |||||||||
| Certificates granted during year | 1 | ||||||||
| In use at the end of 1905 | 61 | ||||||||
| Homework:— | Number of | ||||||||
| Lists. | Outworkers. | ||||||||
| Lists received | 84 | 421 | |||||||
| Addresses of Outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 246 | |||||||
| received from other Authorities | 183 | ||||||||
| Wearing Apparel. | Other. | ||||||||
| Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108) | ... | ... | |||||||
| Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers' premises | 1 | ... | |||||||
| Non-notifiable infectious diseases | 25 | 3 | |||||||
| Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | ... | ... | |||||||
| "Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1905:— | |||||||||
| As set out in Table 41 | 1353 | ||||||||
| Bakehouses | 79 | ||||||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 1432 | ||||||||