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Holborn 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Summary of Sanitary work done during 1901 under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878-1895, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | |||
| Workshops Inspected | 551 | Workshops Overcrowded | 4 |
| „ Notices served | 82 | „ Other nuisances | |
| „ Dirty | 53 | „ Notices sent to H. M. I. of Factories, children, young persons or women employed | 7 |
| „ Waterclosets, defective or dirty | 26 | ||
| „ do. insufficient | 12 | ||
| „ Drains, soil pipes, &c. defective | 1 | „ Complaints received from H. M. I. of Factories | 17 |
| „ Improperly ventilated | - | ||
BAKEHOUSES.
There are 40 bakehouses in the Borough, of which 22 are in Bloomsbury and St. Giles, and 18
are in the Holborn Sub-Division.
They were all inspected from time to time, during the year and notices served where necessary.
The following is a list of bakehouses in the Borough :
| 160 Drury Lane. | 21 Sardinia Street. |
| 166 do. | 2 Bloomsbury Court. |
| 200 Shaftesbury Avenue. | 10 Bury Street. |
| 63 High Street. | 162 High Holborn. |
| 19 Little Earl Street. | 21 Marchmont Street. |
| 5 Little St. Andrew Street. | 77 Marchmont Street. |
| 26 Little Queen Street. | 8 Museum Street. |
| 6 Torrington Place. | 28 New Oxford Street. |
| 233 Tottenham Court Road. | 88 Southampton Row. |
| 33 Great Wild Street. | 34 do. |
| 60 Neal Street. | 155 do. |
| 92 Theobald's Road. | 8 High Holborn. | |
| 124 do. | 9 Cosmo Place. | |
| 136 do. | 33 Great Ormond Street. | |
| 19 Red Lion Street. | 13 Leigh Street. | |
| 50 do. | 58 Leather Lane. | |
| 74 do. | 70 do. | |
| 6 Lamb's Conduit Street (two) | 172 Clerkenwell Road. | |
| 28 do. | 1 Greville Street. | |
| 50 do. | 36 Warner Street. | |
All are underground bakehouses with the exception of Nos. 162, High Holborn, 88,
Southampton Row, 74, Red Lion Street, and one of the two at No. 6, Lamb's Conduit Street.
| 67 kitchens of restaurants were inspected and the 17 notices that were served included the following nuisances :— | |
| Kitchens dirty | 9 |
| Cistern ,, | 1 |
| Drains defective | 6 |
| W.e.'s in improper position | 5 |
| Additional w.c. required | 1 |
| Dustbin defective or absent | 3 |
| Paving defective | 1 |
| Kitchen also used for sleeping | 1 |