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 Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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report on factories and workshops in pursuance of Section 132 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
In order that the form may be filled in without any difficulty from
year to year, the Sanitary Inspectors have been urgently requested to give
full and complete descriptions of the premises visited where any work is
carried on, and to classify such premises in their note books before handing
them to the clerks for the particulars to be entered in the journals,
registers and index files.
It can be easily understood that the classification of premises where
work is executed will vary from time to time, according to the pressure
of work or the nature of the work carried on—outworkers' premises may
become domestic workshops, and also workshops, and even factories; workshops
may become factories; and workplaces may become workshops or
factories, between the visits of the Sanitary Inspectors.