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Southwark 1923

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

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TABLE 42.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
Premises.
Number
Inspections.
Written
Notices.
Prosecutions.
Factories (including Factory Laundrifs)
164
52
...
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)
586
133
...
Workplaces
4583
481
1
Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers)
316
35
...
Total
5649
701
1
2.—Defects Found.
Particulars.
Number of Defects.
Number
of Prosecutions.
Found.
Remedied.
Referred
to H.M.
Inspector.
* NuiSANCEB UNDEn THE poblic HEALTH
Acts : —
Want of Cleanliness
463
458
...
...
Want of Ventilation
7
7
...
...
Overcrowding
2
3
...
1
Want of drainage of floors
2
1
...
...
Other nuisances
487
474
...
...
Sanitary accommodations :
Insufficient
3
15
...
...
Unsuitable or defective
33
21
...
...
Not separate for sexes
3
2
...
...
Offences under the Factory and Workshop
Act :—
Illegal occupation of underground
bakehouse (S. 101)
...
...
...
...
Breach of special sanitary requirements
for bakehouses (SS. 97-100)
...
...
...
...
Other offences
...
...
...
...
Total
1,000
981
...
1
Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable
under the Public Health Acts