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Islington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
During the year there were 126 inspections of factories, 968 inspections of
workshops and 2,538 of workplaces. 301 Intimation Notices for sanitary defects
were served and 42 Statutory Notices.
The following table gives the changes that have taken place during the year,
details of the number of premises on the Register at the end of the year, number
of inspections, etc.
Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Class of Work. | Number of Places. | Number of Inspections. 1908. | Number of Notices 1908. | Number of Prosecutions 1908. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1907. | Aided in 1908. | Removed in 1908. | On Register at end of 1908. | ||||||
| Premises. | Rooms | intimations. | Statutory. | ||||||
| Factories.‡ | |||||||||
| Factory Laundries | 3 | 1 | – | 4 | – | 4 | – | – | – |
| Factory Bakehouses | 2 | – | – | 2 | – | 42 | – | – | – |
| Other Factories | — | – | – | – | – | 80 | 31 | 3 | – |
| Workshops. | |||||||||
| Workshop Laundries | 13 | – | 2 | 11 | 30 | 17 | 3 | – | – |
| Workshop Bakehouses | 31 | – | 2 | 29 | _ | 274 | 14 | 1 | – |
| Other Workshops | 952 | 44 | 8 | 988 | 1,615 | 677 | 90 | 21 | – |
| Workplaces. | |||||||||
| Home workers' Premises * | 168 | 57 | 39 | 186 | 226 | 188 | 9 | – | – |
| Places where Food is prepared for Sale † | 359 | 35 | 6 | 388 | – | 2,117 | 70 | 8 | 1 |
| Workplaces other than the the above § | – | – | – | – | – | 233 | 84 | 9 | – |
| Total | 1,528 | 137 | 57 | 1,608 | 1,871 | 3,682 | 301 | 42 | 1 |
* There were in addition, many inspections of Homeworkers' Premises made during the house—to—house
and periodical inspections of Lodging Houses and other Dwelling Houses.
† Under this head are included the Kitchens of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating—houses of all sorts.
Slaughter Houses, Tripe, Offal, and other Meat Shops, Fried Fish, Eel, and other Fish Shops,
Ice Cream Shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale, excluding Bakehouses
which are given above.
‡ Registration of Factories is not required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, but most of them
were inspected during 1908, and notices served where necessary.
$ There is a very large number of workplaces other than the above, the registration of which is not
required, and many of them were inspected and notices served where necessary.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of the year 1908, there were 31 bakehouses in the Borough, of
which 15 were in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 16 in the Holborn District.
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