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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
City of Westminster 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table LXVII.—Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Premises. (i) | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. (2) | Written Notices. (3) | Occupiers prosecuted. (4) | |
| Factories (including factory laundries) | 384 | 4 | — |
| Workshops (including workshop laundries) | 3,315 | 331 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 4,112 | 369 | 2 |
| Total | 7,811 | 704 | 2 |
Table LXVIII.—Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| 229 | 229 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 49 | 48 | — | — |
| Overcrowding | 17 | 17 | — | — |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Other nuisances | 175 | 175 | — | — |
| Sanitarv accommodation— | ||||
| Insufficient | 103 | 103 | — | — |
| Unsuitable or defective | 129 | 128 | — | 1 |
| Not separate for sexes | 27 | 27 | — | — |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — |
| Other offences | — | — | — | — |
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers Order, 1921.) | ||||
| Total | 730 | 728 | — | 2 |