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Southwark 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 22.FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS (Women's).Inspector, Miss ELLIOTT.Statement of Inspections, with Insanitary Conditions found existing, and of Re-Inspections, &c.

TABLE 22.

FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS (Women's).

Inspector, Miss ELLIOTT.

Statement of Inspections, with Insanitary Conditions found existing, and of Re-Inspections, &c.

Description of Work.Total for Borough.
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, &c. Number of on the Register at end of year412
Workshops, Number of Workrooms therein1038
,, Number of Inspections of637
,, Number of Re-inspections of958
,, Number of Workrooms measured398
Workrooms, &c., Number of Inspections of1011
„ found to be overcrowded19
,, found to be insufficiently ventilated94
,, found to be in a dirty condition392
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered131
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery12
,, Removed from the Register41
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed100
Houses visited re outworkers or at which outworkers are employed92
Written Intimations issued199
Statutory notices75
Works carried out under supervision—
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided100
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed503
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired16
(d) Sanitary conveniences constructed—
(e) Miscellaneous nuisances abated193
Overcrowding" of Workrooms, Cases of, abated14
Nuisances which came under notice during the Inspections:—
(f) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c.1
(g) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted, unventilated, and defective in water supply62
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns—
(i) Cisterns dirty or uncovered5
(j) Miscellaneous126