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Southwark 1904

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

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102
table 46.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS (Women's).
Inspector, Miss ELLIOTT.

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

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

Description of Work.Total for Borough.
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, &e. Number of on the Register at end of year612
Workshops, Number of Workrooms therein1335
,, Number of Inspections of851
,, Number of Re-inspections of1161
,, Number of Workrooms measured114
Workrooms, &c.. Number of Inspections of1596
,, found to be overcrowded15
„ found to be insufficiently ventilated54
,, found to be in a dirty condition430
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered108
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery6
,, Removed from the Register42
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed52
Houses visited re outworkers or at which outworkers are employed69
Written Intimations issued209
Statutory notices129
Works carried out under supervision—
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided33
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed694
(e) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired55
(d) Sanitary conveniences constructed3
(e) Miscellaneous nuisances abated147
Overcrowding" of Workrooms, Cases of, abated12
Nuisances which came under notice during the Inspections:—
(/) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c.-
(g) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted, unventilated, and defective in water supply27
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns-
(i) Cisterns dirty or uncovered-
(j) Miscellaneous150