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 Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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Premises. | Number of | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
Intimations. | Statutory. | |||
Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 57 | 18 | 3 | — |
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 247 | 68 | 9 | — |
Workplaces | 1,239 | 72 | 1 | — |
Total | 1,543 | 158 | 13 | — |
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 | 77 | 77 | — | i | |
Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
Other nuisances | 51 | 5i | — | — | |
Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | i | 1 | — | — |
unsuitable or defective | 41 | 41 | — | — | |
not separate for sexes | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act :— | |||||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | |
Total | 177 | 177 | — | 1 |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts.