Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |
---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | ||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :- | |||
Want of cleanliness. | 246 | 246 | - |
Want of ventilation | 57 | 57 | - |
Want of ventilation of gas stoves | 58 | 58 | - |
Overcrowding | 28 | 28 | - |
Want of drainage of floors | 9 | 9 . | - |
Other nuisances | 70 | 70 | 3 |
Sanitary accommodation- | |||
Insufficient | 20 | 20 | - |
Unsuitable or defective | 204 | 204 | - |
Not separate for sexes | 69 | 69 | - |
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:- | |||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses | - | - | - |
(Sec. 101) | |||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for | 1 | 1 | 1 |
bakehouses (Sees. 97 to 100). | |||
Other offences | - | - | - |
Total | 762 | 762 | 4 |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
Class. | Number. |
---|---|
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories: - | |
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (Sec. 133) | 211 |
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (Sec. 5)- | |
Notified by H.M. Inspector | 117 |
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors | 117 |
Other | 4 |
Workrooms measured | 240 |
Underground bakehouses (Sec. 101):- | |
Certificates granted during the year | 3 |
In use at the end of the yrar | 81 |
Outworkers.-Firms giving out work in certain trades are required
to send in a list twice a year of those they employ. Outworkers
are constantly changing their addresses and their employers, so that
it is difficult to maintain a correct register. The Order issued by the
Home Office applies to the following classes of work:-