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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
Southwark 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 50.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 98 | 33 | ... |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1286 | 402 | 4 |
| Workplaces | 1419 | 568 | 1 |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 387 | 189 | ... |
| Total | 3190 | 1192 | 5 |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 581 | 613 | ... | ... |
| Want of Ventilation | 43 | 38 | ... | ... |
| Overcrowding | 8 | 8 | ... | ... |
| Want of drainage of floors | 47 | 50 | ... | ... |
| Other nuisances | 753 | 665 | ... | ... |
| Sanitary accommodations: | ||||
| Insufficient | 25 | 33 | ... | 4 |
| Unsuitable or defective | 23 | 37 | ... | 1 |
| Not separate for sexes | 8 | 7 | ... | ... |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | ||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | .... | ... | ... | ... |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97-100) 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 by scarlet fever or small-pox (S. 109) | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Other offences | ... | ... | ... | |
| Total | 1488 | 1451 | ... | 5 |
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable
tinder the Public Health Acts.