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Southwark 1909

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

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TABLE 56.
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, &c. Number of on the Register at end of year577
Factories, Number of Inspections of6
Workshops, Number of Workrooms therein1199
„ Number of Inspections of443
„ Number of Re-inspections of1259
„ Number of Workrooms measured349
Workrooms, &c., Number of Inspections of787
„ found to be overcrowded ...6
„ found to be insufficiently ventilated2
„ found to be in a dirty condition Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered123
70
„ Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery10
„ Removed from the Register99
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed8
Houses inspected re outworkers or at which outworkers are employed636
Written Intimations issued90
Statutory notices ...36
Works carried out under supervision-
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided10
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed288
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired6
(d) Sanitary conveniences constructed2
(e) Miscellaneous nuisances abated129
"Overcrowding" of Workrooms, Cases of, abated8
Nuisances which came under notice during the Inspections:-
(f) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c.-
(g) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted, unventilated, and defective in water supply-
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns-
(i) Cisterns dirty or uncovered-
(j) Miscellaneous151