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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 18.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.
1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
| Premises. | Number. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Faotory Laundries) | 447 | 22 | .. |
| Workshops (inoluding Workshop Laundries) Workplaces | 244 115 | 27 29 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers) | 488 | .. | .. |
| Total | 1294 | 78 | .. |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Nuisances under the Public | ||||
| Health Acts:— | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 94 | 65 | .. | .. |
| Want of Ventilation | 8 | 5 | .. | .. |
| Overcrowding | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Other nuisances | 135 | 125 | .. | .. |
| Sanitary accommodations | ||||
| Insufficient | 12 | 20 | .. | .. |
| Unsuitable or detective | 84 | 79 | .. | .. |
| 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 | 172 | 172 | .. | •• |
| Total | 508 | 468 | .. | .. |
*Including those specified in Sections 2,3,7 and 8 of the Factory Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts.